OSCE Mission to Serbia

09/10/2026

🤝 The OSCE Mission to Serbia joins Marking the 20th anniversary of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Recommendations on Policing in Multi-Ethnic Societies (Policing Recommendations).

🎯 Conference Focus: Effective approaches to policing in multicultural and multiethnic environments, highlighting dialogue, co-operation, and mutual understanding.

08/10/2026

🔎 Kompanije se ponekad koriste za prikrivanje novca i imovine stečene kriminalom. Ako se takve kompanije ne istražuju i ne kažnjavaju, nezakonito stečena imovina može ostati pod njihovom kontrolom.

⚖️ Srbija ima zakone koji omogućavaju da kompanije odgovaraju za krivična dela, ali ima prostora za unapređenje njihove primene u praksi.

🤝 Zato je Misija OEBS-a u Srbiji, u partnerstvu sa Pravosudna akademija, 5. oktobra u Beogradu organizovala seminar „Odgovornost pravnih lica“. Predstavnici/ce nadležnih institucija razgovarali su o tome kako bolje prepoznati slučajeve u kojima je kompanija uključena u krivično delo i kako efikasnije primenjivati zakon i oduzimati nezakonito stečenu imovinu.

🎯 Cilj je jednostavan: da za kriminal odgovaraju ne samo pojedinci već i kompanije koje su u njemu učestvovale ili od njega imale korist.

👉 Misija OEBS-a u Srbiji nastaviće i u narednom periodu da podržava aktivnosti usmerene na efikasniju primenu odgovornosti pravnih lica, kao deo šire podrške institucijama Srbije u borbi protiv pranja novca, korupcije i privrednog kriminala.

07/10/2026

👉 Digitalno nasilje je jedan od najbrže rastućih oblika rodno zasnovanog nasilja i direktna pretnja bezbednosti i ravnopravnom učešću žena u digitalnom prostoru.

📝 Devojke i mlade žene izložene su uznemiravanju, zastrašivanju i govoru mržnje proporcionalno više od drugih društvenih kategorija. Uprkos rastućoj vidljivosti ovog problema, u Srbiji i dalje postoji ograničen broj sistematičnih istraživanja koja istovremeno sagledavaju rasprostranjenost digitalnog nasilja, iskustva žrtava, funkcionisanje institucionalnih mehanizama zaštite i primenu postojećeg normativnog okvira.

📊 Kako bi se odgovori na ovaj problem zasnovali na pouzdanim empirijskim dokazima, Centar za slobodne izbore i demokratiju (CeSID) je sproveo istraživanje koje pruža sveobuhvatan uvid u rasprostranjenost digitalnog nasilja nad devojkama i mladim ženama, kao i u efikasnost postojećih mehanizama zaštite u Srbiji. Rezultati istraživanja, koje je podržala Misija OEBS-a u Srbiji uz finansijsku podršku Vlade Švedske, u okviru projekta ,,Konsolidovanje procesa demokratizacije u sektoru bezbednosti u Republici Srbiji", predstavljeni su danas u prostorijama Misije.

Ključni rezultati:
📝 Raskorak između postojećih mehanizama zaštite i njihovog sprovođenja: Srbija ima pravni osnov, institucije i određene mehanizme za reagovanje, ali su procedure, koordinacija, specijalizovana znanja, i informisanost korisnica još uvek nedovoljno povezani i razvijeni. Istovremeno, iskustva mladih žena pokazuju da upravo na tim tačkama nastaju prepreke za prijavljivanje i ostvarivanje zaštite.

📝 53% mladih žena koje su lično iskusile digitalno nasilje nije preduzelo nikakvu meru zaštite. Svega nešto manje od četvrtine obratilo se nekome za pomoć, a kao važan razlog neobraćanja izdvaja se uverenje da prijava ne bi donela rezultat ili da se problemom niko ozbiljno ne bavi.

📌 CeSID je formulisao 20 preporuka koje su namenjene donosiocima odluka, državnim organima i organizacijama civilnog društva.

🔑 Cilj: Jačanje rodne osetljivosti i transparentnosti institucija, premošćavanje jaza između propisa i prakse, te unapređenje javnih politika za prevenciju i zaštitu žrtava.

🔗 Kompletan izveštaj CeSID-a i preporuke možete preuzeti na linku:https://www.cesid.rs/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/OSCE-Digitalno-nasilje_Finalni-izve%C5%A1taj.pdf

02/10/2026

🤝 The OSCE Mission to Serbia values its continued partnership with the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue in advancing the participation and inclusion of national minorities.

✅ From supporting National Minority Council elections to the Professional Practice Programme for young people from minority communities, our co-operation is helping create more inclusive institutions and increased opportunities for participation.

☀ Concrete examples include helping young professionals gain practical experience in public institutions and supporting language courses for members of national minority communities that strengthen opportunities for education, employment and participation in public life.

01/10/2026

🤝 Today in Belgrade, the OSCE Mission to Serbia and the OSCE Secretariat’s Strategic Police Matters Unit (SPMU) concluded a regional roundtable on how new and emerging technologies can support the future of policing.

🗣 From identifying crime trends and monitoring emerging threats to supporting digital investigations and suspect identification, participants explored how new technologies can help law enforcement agencies work more effectively, make better-informed decisions and strengthen their response to increasingly complex forms of crime.

🔎 At the same time, their use brings new challenges: from protecting personal data and privacy to ensuring transparency, accountability and respect for fundamental rights.

✅ Bringing together law enforcement officials from across South-Eastern Europe, the two-day event provided a platform to exchange experiences and explore how technological innovation can support more effective, modern and accountable policing across the region.

🤝 Through these efforts, the OSCE is contributing to safer and more resilient communities.

29/09/2026

👉 Mladi iz manjinskih zajednica i nerazvijenijih područja u južnoj i jugozapadnoj Srbiji imaju potrebe za jednakim šansama.

☀ Kako bi podržala jaču integraciju mladih iz različitih sredina u Srbiji, naročito kroz podršku njihovom učešću u različitim sferama društvenog i političkog života, Misija OEBS-a je sa partnerskim institucijama Republike Srbije razvila je specijalizovan Program stručne prakse za mlade iz južne i jugozapadne Srbije.

🔎 Program je omogućio mladima iz južne i jugozapadne Srbije rad u republičkim institucijama u trajanju od dvanaest meseci.
Od 2018. godine, 56 mladih imalo je priliku da unapredi znanja o dobroj upravi kroz sticanje profesionalnog iskustva u državnoj službi.

🛎️ Danas smo obeležili uspešan završetak šestog ciklusa Programa stručne prakse za mlade iz južne i jugozapadne Srbije za 2025/2026. godinu sa fokusom na postignuća mladih, kao i male projektne aktivnosti koje su realizovali tokom jednogodišnjeg stručnog usavršavanja u državnim institucijama u Srbiji.

✅ Program stručne prakse realizovala je Misija OEBS-a u Srbiji, u partnerstvu sa Ministarstvom za ljudska i manjinska prava i društveni dijalog, uz finansijsku podršku Norveške, Nemačke, Turske i Finske.

29/09/2026

On International Right to Know Day, we reaffirm a fundamental principle of democratic governance: citizens have the right to know how decisions that affect them are made and how public institutions exercise their responsibilities.

Effective access to information strengthens transparency and accountability, enables informed public participation and helps build trust between citizens and institutions. It requires not only strong legal guarantees, but also their consistent implementation in practice.

The OSCE Mission to Serbia has a long-standing partnership with the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, supporting efforts to strengthen institutional capacities, promote openness and enable citizens, civil society and the media to effectively exercise the right of access to information. In recent years, this co-operation has placed particular emphasis on improving citizens’ access to environmental information, in line with the Aarhus Convention.

📷 Marina Jančević

28/09/2026

⚖️ A fair, objective and transparent system for evaluating judges is essential for strengthening both judicial independence and accountability. Clear criteria and appropriate safeguards help ensure that judicial performance is assessed consistently, while protecting judges from undue influence.

🔎 As part of Serbia’s broader constitutional and judicial reform process, a new By-law on the Evaluation of Judges and Court Presidents introduced a new framework for judicial evaluation. With the framework due to be applied in practice for the first time, ensuring that those responsible for evaluations are prepared to implement the new rules consistently is a critical next step.

🤝 To support this process, members of evaluation commissions responsible for assessing judges and court presidents took part in specialized training in Kragujevac on 28–29 September 2026. Organized at the request of the High Judicial Council, the training was supported by the OSCE Mission to Serbia in co-operation with the Council of Europe. Council of Europe Office in Belgrade

🗣 Through practical exercises and discussion, participants strengthened their skills in applying the new evaluation criteria, qualitative assessment methods and evaluation tools, with a particular focus on ensuring that evaluations are fair, objective, consistent and transparent.
The training is part of a broader programme running from August to October 2026 and reaching a total of 210 participants who will be responsible for putting the new evaluation framework into practice.

🤝 The Mission’s support builds on its work in 2025, when it supported the pilot implementation of the new Rules on the Evaluation of Judges and Court Presidents. Moving from piloting the framework to preparing evaluation commissions for its full implementation helps translate new rules on paper into consistent practice across the judiciary.

🎯 The impact extends beyond the evaluation process itself. With a significant number of judges expected to retire in the coming period, Serbia will need to fill resulting judicial vacancies. As evaluation is a prerequisite for appointment to higher courts, effective implementation of the new system will help ensure that a larger pool of qualified judges can be assessed and considered for advancement in a timely, objective and consistent manner.

✅ By equipping evaluation commissions to apply the new framework effectively, the programme therefore contributes not only to fairer judicial evaluations, but also to the timely filling of vacancies and the continued capacity and efficiency of the judiciary, while safeguarding judicial independence and accountability. The activity forms part of the OSCE Mission to Serbia’s broader support for judicial independence and accountability and for strengthening the institutional capacity of the High Judicial Council.

28/09/2026

🌟 Inter-cultural Camp-Youth Talks 2026

Through an engaging and interactive programme, participants developed practical skills for promoting inter-culturalism in their local communities, exchanged experiences, and created their own post-camp initiatives that will continue fostering dialogue and co-operation among young people from different ethnic backgrounds.

🌟 25-28 September, Srebrno jezero
🌟 25 high school students and their teachers from Bujanovac, Medveđa Preševo and Subotica

The fifth and final edition of the camp consolidated and built on the experience of the previous four cycles while introducing several new elements.
For the second time, it merged the Mission’s youth initiatives in Vojvodina and South Serbia, bringing together young people from a broader range of communities and placing greater emphasis on practical skills, youth-led local actions and peer-to-peer learning through the involvement of camp alumni.

The programme also introduced the use of AI as a tool for community engagement. Importantly, the 2026 edition served as a transition from the camp model towards more sustainable, locally owned and school-driven intercultural initiatives, developed with the involvement of the Ministry of Education.

25/09/2026