The 1995 OSCE Meeting on Human Dimension Issues

The 1995 OSCE Meeting on Human Dimension Issues
Author: United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 94
Release: 1996
Genre: Civil rights
ISBN:

OSCE Meeting on Human Dimension Issues (1997)

OSCE Meeting on Human Dimension Issues (1997)
Author: Michael R. Hathaway
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1999-05
Genre:
ISBN: 0788179330

Report by the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the OSCE and the Helsinki process. The OSCE is engaged in standard setting in fields including military security, economic and environmental cooperation, and human rights and humanitarian concerns. In addition, it undertakes a variety of preventive diplomacy initiatives designed to prevent, manage and resolve conflict within and among the participating States. In Nov. 1997, the participating States of the OSCE met in Warsaw, Poland for their biennial review of compliance with their human dimension commitments. This report summarizes that meeting.

The Legal Framework of the OSCE

The Legal Framework of the OSCE
Author: Mateja Steinbrück Platise
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 719
Release: 2019-05-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108615147

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the world's largest regional security organisation, possesses most of the attributes traditionally ascribed to an international organisation, but lacks a constitutive treaty and an established international legal personality. Moreover, OSCE decisions are considered mere political commitments and thus not legally binding. As such, it seems to correspond to the general zeitgeist, in which new, less formal actors and forms of international cooperation gain prominence, while traditional actors and instruments of international law are in stagnation. However, an increasing number of voices - including the OSCE participating states - have been advocating for more formal and autonomous OSCE institutional structures, for international legal personality, or even for the adoption of a constitutive treaty. The book analyses why and how these demands have emerged, critically analyses the reform proposals and provides new arguments for revisiting the OSCE legal framework.