Publications

The Strategy was compiled by the Working Group for drafting the Media Strategy.

Albanian justice sector donor quarterly newsletter, January-March 2011

Within the BiH justice sector, the enforcement of criminal sanctions is a crucial component in assessing the sector’s overall functionality, effectiveness, and compliance with international human rights standards. Further, an effective and credible system of execution of criminal sanctions secures individual rights of incarcerated persons, the public’s safety, and improves the confidence of citizens in the justice sector as a whole.

These Guidelines on Political Party Regulation have been created as a tool to assist OSCE participating States and Council of Europe Member States in formulating legal frameworks that comply with OSCE commitments and other international standards in facilitating the proper establishment, development and functioning of political parties.

This issue features the launch of the Lithuanian Chairmanship, a round-up of the 2010 OSCE Summit, a look at the OSCE as a security community, and more.

An OSCE Talks report based on a seminar held at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, on 5 April 2011, organized by the OSCE Press and Public Information Section and supported by Lithuania’s 2011 OSCE Chairmanship and by the Permanent Mission of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the OSCE.

Dual-language (English and Russian) compendium of HCNM thematic Recommendations and Guidelines published between 1996 and 2008.

This research into the successful international practices of funding civil society organizations was carried out with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine. It provides an in-depth analysis of six European countries as a reference for understanding civil society organizations’ finances from both state or non-state sources. It is available in both English and Ukrainian.

With the aim of promoting the implementation of the Aarhus Convention principles, empowering the civil society and fostering the partnership between the civil sector and authorities, the OSCE Mission to Serbia supported the district Arhus Centre Kragujevac legal team in the development of model legal acts for local self-government units that enable sustainable public involvement in environmental decision-making processes at local level, more transparent access to environmental information and charge-free provision of legal assistance in environmental disputes. These model decisions aim at establishing “environmental councils” and introducing “green seats” in municipal assemblies, and “green line” and “green ombudsmen” within local administrations. The models were adopted by the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities and the Municipal Assembly of the City of Kragujevac at the end of 2010.