OSCE Quarterly Selections 3/2014 August – November 2014 The six following groups have been designed with view to help readers to navigate among the “official document” collections available on the web. These selections cover in general a period of four months. Each group is chronologically organized and provides links to individual documents as well as their language variations (when available): I. OSCE PERIODICALS AND PUBLICATIONS II. DECISIONS, CONSENSUS DOCUMENTS AND JOURNALS OF THE DAY yielded by regular OSCE negotiating and decision making bodies (e.g. document groups for individual plenary meetings of the Permanent Council and the Forum for Security Co-operation and their joint meetings). III. SELECTED STATEMENTS, INTERVENTIONS, REGULAR REPORTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS made by the OSCE Chairperson-in- Office and High Officials representing OSCE structures, institutions and field activities. Statements and speeches by representatives of OSCE participating States delivered at regular negotiating and decision-making bodies can be found on the OSCE public web under the document group created for each PC and FSC session. IV. CONSOLIDATED SUMMARIES – (non-consensus) REPORTS AND AGENDAS released by/at OSCE meetings, events, conferences, seminars and workshops. V. ELECTION OBSERVATION REPORTS prepared by various types of election missions, as well as statements or invitations concerning elections in participating States. VI. SELECTED INTEREST AND REFERENCE DOCUMENTS. This section includes various items relating to events or activities within the three OSCE dimensions (some of which may have taken place in the past months or years, but their results have been released recently) Prague Office of the OSCE Secretariat Nám. Pod Kaštany 2, 16000 Prague 6, Czech Republic [email protected] | tel: +420-224 186 450 | fax: +420-224 186 440 www.osce.org | www.osce.org/secretariat/prague | http://www.osce.org/resources/126378 FREQUENTLY USED ABBREVIATIONS Negotiating & Decision making bodies OSCE Election monitoring missions FSC — Forum for Security Co-operation EAM — Election Assessment Mission (FSC-PC) — Joint FSC-PC Meeting EET — Election Expert Mission MC — Ministerial Council EST — Election Support Team PC — Permanent Council EOM — Election Observation Mission IEOM — International Election Observation Mission Other OSCE Meetings & Committees LEOM — Limited Election Observation Mission AIAM — Annual Implementation Assessment Meeting PACE — Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe EEF — Economic and Environmental Forum PEC — Precinct Election Commission HDIM — Human Dimension Implementation Meeting NAM — Needs Assessment Mission Chairmanship OSCE Missions and other field activities (listed herewith) CiO — Chairperson-in-Office OMBiH — OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina PRCiO — Personal Representative of the Chairperson- in-Office OMiK — OSCE Mission in Kosovo SRCiO — Special Representative of the Chairperson- in-Office OPA — OSCE Presence in Albania OM Moldova — OSCE Mission to Moldova OSCE Secretariat & its units/departments OM Montenegro — OSCE Mission to Montenegro ATU — Action against Terrorism Unit OM Serbia — OSCE Mission to Serbia COMMS — Communication and Media Relations Section OM Skopje — OSCE Mission to Skopje CPC — Conflict Prevention Center OOM — OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian CTHB — Combating Trafficking in Human Beings Checkpoints in Gukovo and Donetsk OCEEA — Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and OSMM — OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine Environmental Activities OSG — Office of the Secretary General Documentation acronyms (ID)* SEC — Secretariat (See footnote related to ID system below) SG — Secretary General JOUR — Journal of the day SPMU — Strategic Police Matters Unit DEC — Decision TNT — Transnational Threats Department ...DEL — issued by 1 or more delegation(s) ...DOC — non-consensus document OSCE Institutions ...GAL — substantive or general nature FoM — [Representative on] Freedom of the Media ...INF — basic information HCNM — High Commissioner on National Minorities ODIHR — Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights OSCE working Languages PA — Parliamentary Assembly English French German Italian Russian Spanish * Document ID Reference System Policy document identification and distribution follows a set of registry values, some or all of which will form the document identification block appearing on the upper right corner of distributed documents. Main category: Capital letters denoting the nature of the document and referring to the main OSCE body to which it is to be submitted or from which it originates (PC, FSC, MC, SEC, ODIHR) Subcategory: Capital letters referring to meetings of bodies working under the authority of the main OSCE bodies (PC.ACMF, PC.SHDM, FSC.AIAM, etc.) Subgroup: Capital letters indicating the type of the document type (such as field reports, journals, etc. also see acronyms listed above) Suffixesmay be added, where necessary, in order to indicate modifications of the text (Rev — Revision; Corr — Correction; Add — Addendum) I. OSCE PUBLICATIONS AND PERIODICALS (upon availability) No. Document type/Originator Title/Description OSCE ID or ISBN URL Magazine/Secretariat/OSG/ OSCE Security Community 3/2014. PPIS http://www.osce.org/magazine (Default Distribution) Magazine/Secretariat/OSG/ OSCE Security Community 2/2013. PPIS http://www.osce.org/ru/home/126459 (Default Distribution) 1 Factsheet/SEC Factsheet on OSCE engagement with Ukraine. http://www.osce.org/home/125575 2 Annual Report/TNT/SPMU Annual Report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities in 2013, SEC.DOC/2/14 submitted in accordance with Decision 9, paragraph 6, of the 2001 Bucharest Ministerial http://www.osce.org/ Council Meeting, provides an overview of the police-related programmes and projects, secretariat/122942 implemented by the OSCE executive structures, including the thematic units in the Secretariat, the Institutions and the field operations during 2013. 3 Study/CTHB Ending Exploitation. Ensuring that Businesses do not Contribute to Trafficking ISBN: 978-92- in Human Beings: Duties of States and the Private Sector. This Occasional Paper, 9234-447-4 the seventh in a series of Occasional Papers published by OSCE Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, outlines the measures that businesses can take to ensure that trafficking in human beings does http://www.osce.org/ not occur in their workplaces or those of their suppliers (i.e., other businesses that sell secretariat/126305 products or services to them). It also reviews the obligations of the OSCE’s participating States to regulate business activities and to enable businesses to take appropriate action to stop human trafficking from occurring. The study provides a series of recommendations for OSCE participating States. 4 Proceedings/HCNM The Max van der Stoel Award 2014 Programme and 2011 Commemoration. Proceedings and winners of the Max van der Stoel Award ceremonies of 2011 and 2014. The Max van der Stoel Award Commemorative Award 2014 Programme and 2011 Commemoration provides an overview of the award ceremony. It features the winners of the award in http://www.osce.org/hcnm/125260 2011, the Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje, and in 2014, Spravedlivost (a human rights NGO from southern Kyrgyzstan) and their activities to improve the position of national minorities in their respective OSCE participating States. 5 Guideline/ODIHR Hate Crime Data Collection and Monitoring: A Practical Guide. This Guide was ISBN: 978-92- written in co-operation with national experts, partner international organizations and 9234-895-3 Non-Governmental Organizations with responsibility for monitoring hate crimes at the http://www.osce.org/odihr/ national and international levels. It sets out ‘Ten Practical Steps’ that need to be taken to datacollectionguide 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. 6 Guideline/ODIHR Prosecuting Hate Crimes: A Practical Guide. This Guide was written in cooperation ISBN: 978-92- with the International Association of Prosecutors to improve the investigation and 9234-899-1 prosecution of hate crimes across the OSCE region. The guide is relevant to different legal systems and legislative frameworks and complements ODIHR’s Prosecutors and http://www.osce.org/odihr/ Hate Crime Training (PAHCT). This guide aims to explain the impact of hate crimes prosecutorsguide by highlighting their specific features compared with other crimes. It presents the most common issues that arise for prosecutors in dealing with these crimes, with an emphasis on evidence of bias motivation, which is the distinguishing factor in hate crimes. 7 Paper/ODIHR The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area: Background Paper 2014. This paper is intended ISBN: 978-92- to provide a concise update to highlight changes in the status of the death penalty in 9234-897-7 http://www.osce.org/odihr/124105 OSCE participating States and to promote constructive discussion of this issue. It covers the period from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014. 8 Handbook/ODIHR/HCNM Handbook On Observing and Promoting the Participation of National Minorities in ISBN: 978-92- Electoral Processes. The present publication builds on the Guidelines to Assist National 9234-892-2 http://www.osce.org/odihr/ Minority Participation