Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

ODIHR Director Janez Lenarčič (l) speaks to Martina Feeny, Deputy Head of the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the OSCE (c) and Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (r), at the start of the three-day Human Dimension Seminar on ways to strengthen the rule of law to combat trafficking in human beings. Warsaw, 14 May 2012. (OSCE/Piotr Markowski)
ODIHR Director Janez Lenarčič (l) speaks to Martina Feeny, Deputy Head of the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the OSCE (c) and Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (r), at the start of the three-day Human Dimension Seminar on ways to strengthen the rule of law to combat trafficking in human beings. Warsaw, 14 May 2012. (OSCE/Piotr Markowski)
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights is based in Warsaw, Poland. It is active throughout the OSCE area in the fields of election observation, democratic development, human rights, tolerance and non-discrimination, and rule of law.

Presenting the Training Against Hate Crimes for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) programme to Croatian police

A participant gives his comments on the session to Azra Junuzović, Deputy Head of ODIHR’s Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Department. The presentation was part of an assessment to gather feedback from the Croatian authorities on the new programme and how it can be integrated with existing training schemes in Croatia. TAHCLE is customized to reflect and address the circumstances, needs and conditions in the host State, and implemented with law enforcement officers for the benefit of police, communities and society. Zagreb, 23 March 2012.
Images from a presentation to Croatian police on 23 March 2012 about ODIHR's new programme on helping law enforcement officers to better respond to and tackle hate crime.

Observation of the presidential election in the Russian Federation

A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Moscow during Russia's Presidential election, 4 March 2012.
OSCE/ODIHR observed the 4 March presidential election in the Russian Federation following an invitation from the Central Election Commission.