OSCE Mission to Serbia

OSCE Mission to Serbia has been supporting Serbia's Cybersecurity Network Foundation in organizing the national cybersecurity competition for youth as part of its commitment to engaging youth with cybersecurity topics and empowering young girls to challenge the stereotype that cybersecurity is a profession reserved for men, Belgrade, 15 May 2024

Ambassador Jan Braathu (centre) with the winners of the 2023 OSCE Mission to Serbia Person of the Year Award, Belgrade, 7 December 2023.

Launch of the Eight Environmental Law Clinic, implemented by the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law and supported by the OSCE Mission to Serbia, aiming to enhance young professionals’ expertise in environmental legislation, Belgrade, 1 November 2023

During his visit to Serbia, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bujar Osmani, visits the OSCE Mission to Serbia premises, Belgrade, 25 May 2023

Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Ambassador Jan Braathu during an interview with regional media outlet RTV Mag, Obrenovac, 15 March 2023

OSCE Mission to Serbia assists National Youth Council of Serbia (KOMS) by moderating the Fourth Dialogue of youth with the Prime Minister, a key platform for empowering young voices and building stronger partnerships between youth and decision-makers, Belgrade, 24 February 2023

Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Ambassador Jan Braathu presents the 2022 Person of the Year Award to Miljana Pejić Secretary General of the National Youth Council of Serbia (KOMS), Belgrade, 9 December 2022.

Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia Ambassador Jan Braathu together with the President of the Federation of Jewish Communities Serbia Robert Sabadoš in a visit to the Synagogue of Subotica, discussing activities in countering anti Semitism and combating intolerance, discrimination and promoting mutual respect and understanding, Subotica, 17 February 2022.

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.

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.

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.

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