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Security and Human Rights Monitor The Security and Human Rights Monitor (SHR Monitor) is a multifaceted platform that provides analysis on the work of the OSCE, as well as on security and human rights challenges stemming from the OSCE region and beyond.
20 August 2020
How to Communicate in Ways that Improve Respect and Enhance Cooperation?
Cooperative Security Initiative
How to Get Along With Neighbours That You Do Not Trust?
The OSCE: A Bulwark Against Authoritarianism
The OSCE is Dysfunctional — But Necessary
How Internal Squabbling Paralyzed Europe’s Most Vital Security Organization
Future of Europe’s largest human rights conference at stake
Book Review: European Judicial Responses to Security Council Resolutions – A Consequentialist Assessment written by Kushtrim Istrefi
Financial Times | OSCE faces crisis as infighting leaves it rudderless
“The U.S. withdrawal from international treaties is a myth”
Parliamentary leaders call on Foreign Ministers to rectify institutional crisis facing OSCE
Nathalie Tocci calls for cooperation in dealing with COVID19
Open Letter to the Foreign Ministers of the 57 participating States of the OSCE, by former Directors of its Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Building Up Military Capabilities Creates Further Instability

Building Security Through Cooperation

The Security and Human Rights Monitor (SHRM) provides regular updates on topical developments relevant to the mandate of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). The publications on this website are meant to stimulate dialogue and debate and / or inform readers on issues related to security and human rights.

The publication of the Security and Human Rights Monitor is made possible through the generous financial support of the governments of Austria, Liechtenstein, and the Netherlands.

The major themes include:

  • Conflict prevention
  • Human Rights
  • Minorities
  • Democracy building
  • Cooperative security
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