OSCE Mission to Serbia

Jan Braathu (c), Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia, welcomes at the Mission's premises the recipients of the 2021 OSCE Mission to Serbia's Person of the Year Award: Vladimira Dorčova-Valtnerova (r), Founder and Editor in Chief of Storyteller.rs, from Maglić, and the Voluntary Firefighting Association of Požega team (c- r), as well as awardees of the 2020 OSCE Mission to Serbia's Person of the Year Award: Ivanka Jovanović (c-l), Executive Director of the National Organisation of Persons with Disabilities of Serbia (NOOIS), and Biljana Stepanov, Director of the Centre for Support of Women from Kikinda (l).

Ambassador Jan Braathu during his first visit to Novi Pazar in his capacity as Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia, in a meeting with the Mayor of Novi Pazar, Nihat Biševac. Novi Pazar, 9 September 2021.

Mayor of Bujanovac Nagip Arifi (l) welcomes Ambassador Jan Braathu (c) during his first visit to south Serbia in his capacity as the Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia, Bujanovac, 2 September 2021

Jan Braathu, Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, visits the Regional Housing Programme (RHP) construction site for 94 apartments for RHP beneficiary refugee families, Veternik, 4 August 2021.

Sarah Groen, Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, delivers closing remarks at the ceremony of the Fifth generation of Democracy Academy for young participants from Serbia who attended nine month long online courses in democracy. The Democracy Academy was supported by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and CSO CRTA, Belgrade, 26 June 2021

The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ann Linde, welcomed by Jan Braathu, Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, visits the OSCE Mission to Serbia's premises during her two-day visit to Serbia, Belgrade, 25 May 2021.

Jan Braathu(c-r), Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Ivica Dacic (r),Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, discuss continuation of excellent co-operation between the OSCE Mission and the National Assembly, Belgrade, 3 March 2021.

Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Ambassador Jan Braathu (l), at an introductory meeting with Serbia's Prime Minister Ana Brnabić (r), discuss continuation of the OSCE Mission's excellent partnership with the host country, Belgrade, 18 February 2021

Women parliamentarians discuss gender equality in Serbia at a conference of Women's Parliamentary Network. The OSCE Mission has been supporting the Women’s Parliamentary Network of Serbian National Assembly, a cross-party network of women parliamentarians, since its inception in 2013, Belgrade, 26 January 2021.

Jan Braathu, Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, at the introductory meeting with the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, 21 January 2021.

Jan Braathu (l), Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia,at the meeting with Serbia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikola Selakovic (r), Belgrade, 25 January 2021.

In partnership with the CSO Centre for Youth Integration, the OSCE Mission supports workshops taking place in drop-in shelters, for around 200 elementary school children and youth from four substandard settlements in Belgrade, enabling children to recover learning losses caused by their inability to follow distance learning classes.

State prosecutors and deputy state prosecutors go to the polls across Serbia to elect their representatives on their self-governing body - the State Prosecutors' Council (SPC).

The OSCE Mission supported the Institute for improvement of education in producing comprehensive Manuals that will help school teachers in delivery of the new concept of the civic education, introduced in Serbian schools gradually, throughout 2018 and 2019.

A teacher of Serbian language records classes for students from Albanian national minority community. In partnership with the Ministry of Education, the OSCE Mission is recording classes for the school subject Serbian as a non-mother tongue for students from eights minority communities, Bujanovac, 29 October 2020.

One of the five participants of the Professional Practice Programme, part of the OSCE Mission's Legal Learning Project for southwest Serbia, who started working with central institutions during six-month period, Belgrade, 16 October 2020.

The participants of the conference “Judiciary in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic” among other things discussed the legal implications of the state of emergency, the role and duties of parliamentarians, and the functioning of the courts, Belgrade, 29 September 2020.

As a part of its wider assistance to Serbia in fighting COVID-19 pandemic, the OSCE Mission to Serbia provided direct support to the victims of trafficking in human beigns placed at Shelter run by the Centre for the Protection of Rights of THB victims.

Participants of the OSCE Mission-supported training for school police officers supervisors discuss ways to prevent drug abuse and improve safety in school environment, Belgrade, 26 February 2020.

OSCE Mission to Serbia supported the publication "Use of Gender Sensitive Language in Public Administration" as a part of its support to implementation and institutionalization of gender equality policies at all levels of governance in Serbia

Winners of the 2019 OSCE Mission to Serbia Person of the Year award: Aleksandar Ivanović, Bojan Cvejić and Sonja Stojanovic Gajić.

The beneficiaries of the Regional Housing Programme (RHP), in front of building of their new home, Ovca, 12 April 2018.