Publications

The Guidebook is developed in 2021 within the project "Strengthening Democratic Control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Area of Interaction with Civil Society". This Guidebook is designed to provide the necessary information for leaders at all levels of military administration who

With dozens of OSCE SMM patrols going out every day all across Ukraine, many in high-risk areas in the east, On Patrol offers a remarkable insight not only into the work of the biggest OSCE mission on the ground – and the men and women who serve it and the wider cause of peace – but also into some of the people and issues that define Ukraine and the crisis it endures.

This Brief summarizes the findings of Occasional Paper No. 11 Discouraging the demand that fosters trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, which draws attention to the reasons why States should discourage demand; outlines the international legal obligations and political commitments

The research focuses on examining the needs of schools in the changed circumstances of educational work, with a focus on the perspective of teachers, while the results were used to create practical tools to support their work and create recommendations for preventing risky behaviors during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The research was conducted online among 916 teachers from 271 primary schools in Serbia. Based on the research results, recommendations were created to support teachers and schools in their work on the prevention of risky behaviors in COVID and post-COVID time. The publication is available in Serbian language.

Based on results of the Assessment Report: Needs of primary schools in Serbia during COVID-19 pandemic in the context of prevention of risky behaviours among students: teachers’ perspective, this guide was produced to support teachers in their work and efforts to respond to new challenges in the best possible way. The guide provides an overview of important tools for learning management, making tests / quizzes / questionnaires, collaborating and sharing, creating and editing presentations and videos, with clear guidelines for their use. Available in Serbian language.

The info sheet provides information and statistics on the performance of the Municipal Community Safety Councils (MCSCs), a municipal body mandated to address communities’ security concerns. It aims to provide relevant institutions with indicators that can assist in identifying gaps and improving compliance.

This edition of OSCEval News is dedicated to the Independent Evaluation of the OSCE Trans-National Threats Department’s (TNTD/ATU) Rule of Law and Counter-Terrorism Thematic Portfolio on ‘Strengthening Rule of Law Compliant Criminal Justice Responses to Terrorism’. This evaluation was conducted by an external consultant in collaboration with the Office of Internal Oversight (OIO) in 2021. It proposes key recommendations to strengthen programming in the Rule of Law and Counter-Terrorism thematic area, across the Organization.

This policy brief has been prepared based on the document Towards Education that Creates Changes: The report on the analysis of documents regulating primary and general secondary education in Bosnia and Herzegovina – on the path from traditional to contemporary curricula based on student learning outcomes, that has been developed in 2020 by a group of authors, experts in the area of education, who were engaged by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina within the project titled “Quality Education through Curriculum Reform” that is run by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina with financial support of the governments of the Kingdom of Norway and the Italian Republic.

The Analysis of the Current Situation and Proposals for Improving the System of Collective Management and Individual Exercise of Copyright and Related Rights in the Republic of Serbia by lawyer Dragan Milic was done in order to contribute to support the Media Strategy and  Action Plan implementation and offers insights in media-related copyright issues. 

The Analysis of the Labour Legal Status of Journalists and Media Workers in Serbia with Recommendations for Improvement by Mario Reljanovic, research associate at the Institute for Comparative Law in Belgrade was done in order to provide overview of the situation concerning labour rights of journalists and media workers, and offers a base for further discussions on this important topic.