Publications

The Information Against Hate Crimes Toolkit (INFAHCT) is an assistance programme aimed at improving systems for monitoring and collecting data on hate crimes. INFAHCT achieves this by helping to build and strengthen the policies and capacities of national institutions and other structures to collect data on hate crimes. INFAHCT is designed and implemented by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The OSCE is the world’s largest regional security organization, while ODIHR is the principal OSCE institution dedicated to supporting States in implementing their commitments in the area of human rights and democracy. OSCE participating States acknowledge that hate crimes pose a threat to security and may give rise to conflict and violence on a wider scale.

The Justice Monitor is a publication of the observations of OSCE monitors in the first instance courts in Kosovo. The Justice Monitor aims to provide policymakers and justice sector actors with indicators not otherwise available. This helps to identify compliance gaps in the administration of justice and the tracking of progress achieved in closing those gaps.

This publication is prepared by the OSCE Project Coordinator in Ukraine for the journalists from national and regional media, journalism students, and for those wishing to learn to produce quality content for print and online media. It provides advise on the following issues “Hot to pitch a story

The purpose of this report is to provide insight into the current bilingual legislative drafting process at the Government and the Assembly levels, in order to highlight procedural and practical shortcomings and to provide recommendations to improve the bilingual drafting and translation process and strengthen the implementation of the Law on the Use of Languages. The report covers all activities in this area through 2017. Available in English, Albanian, and Serbian.

In the centre of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo mandate is the monitoring, promotion and protection of the human rights of diverse communities in Kosovo, of which language rights are an integral component. Equal use of official languages in Kosovo is a prerequisite for full and effective provision of services by the Kosovo Police to its own staff and to all individuals that interact with the KP. The OSCE Mission in Kosovo has continuously monitored and shared recommendations with the Kosovo Police on the use of the official languages in line with the legal framework in Kosovo and the relevant international human rights standards. The report, which analyses Kosovo Police language compliance in all eight police regions, acknowledges significant progress of the Kosovo Police achieved over the years and provides key conclusions and series of recommendations to the police, with the aim to ensure the protection of language rights for all communities. Available in English, Albanian and Serbian.

This manual is intended for public authorities and local self-governments as well as for the public sector. In the manual, you will find answers to questions: how to organize and conduct a competition of projects; how to create a commission and organize monitoring and evaluation; it explains the

This report provides a comprehensive overview of all police-related projects, activities and events, which draw on the combined strength of the OSCE’s Institutions and its network of field operations, often cutting across the OSCE’s three security dimensions.