Publications

This Handbook for Protocol Officers serves to raise awareness and inform the relevant authorities about how to prevent trafficking in human beings for domestic servitude in diplomatic households, how to detect abuses and how to react to exploitative situations while protecting the rights of the domestic worker. This handbook will increase knowledge about strategies and policies to discourage non-compliance in the employment of private domestic workers in diplomatic households. It will also provide examples of national practices which have proven effective towards those ends.

The report prepared by the Committee to Protect Freedom of the Expression with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan analyzes the implementation of the Government's Action Plan on Transition from Analogue to Digital Broadcasting. It covers three aspects of the digital switchover: legal, technical and social.

This yearbook is a record of the activities undertaken by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media during 2013. Preface by the 2013 OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Ihor Prokopchuk; foreword by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović.

The manual was prepared by experts from the Centre for Excellence in Negotiation and contains training material for community police officers.

ODIHR's annual report provides an overview of the Office's primary activities in the areas of elections, human rights, democratization, tolerance and non-discrimination, and Roma and Sinti issues.

The study was conducted by the "Region" Research Centre with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan. It aims to examine how mainstream media uses social media and to what extent social media impacts the quality of reporting. The study is based on 100 interviews with media professionals from TV, radio, online media and on monitoring of nine mainstream media outlets. This publication is not available in English.

The Strategy lays down five principles of co-operation: partnership, transparency, accountability, mutual informing and independence of non-governmental organizations which were pillars for implementation of activities aimed towards improving cooperation between the Government and NGOs.

The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area: Background Paper 2014 is intended to provide a concise update to highlight changes in the status of the death penalty in OSCE participating States and to promote constructive discussion of this issue. It covers the period from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014.

The newsletter covers the OSCE Office in Yerevan activities for the period of 1 January  - 1 July 2014.

Hate Crime Data Collection and Monitoring: A Practical Guide was written in co-operation with national experts, partner international organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations with responsibility for monitoring hate crimes at the national and international levels. It sets out 'Ten Practical Steps' that need to be taken to improve recording systems, to understand the extent of under-reporting and to encourage victims to report hate crimes. It aims to contribute to efforts to fill data gaps and gain a better understanding of the prevalence and impact of hate crime across the OSCE region.