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Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
About
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.
Press releases
Run-off confirms that Ukraine's presidential election meets most international commitments
KYIV, 8 February 2010 - Ukraine's run-off presidential election confirmed the international election observation mission's assessment that the electoral process met most OSCE and Council of Europe commitments...
International observers to hold press conference in Kyiv on Monday
KYIV, 5 February 2010 - The International Election Observation Mission for the presidential election in Ukraine will present its preliminary post-election statement at a news conference on Monday, 8 February, in Kyiv...
Features
ODIHR trains the trainers to help battle hate crimes
The OSCE Office on Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is helping practitioners across Eastern Europe learn to recognize signs of burgeoning intolerance and devise effective training courses on combating hate crimes.
ODIHR Director Ambassador Janez Lenarcic (right) and the Chairman of the Russian Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov, at the ODIHR office, Warsaw, 1 February 2010. (OSCE/Jens Eschenbaecher)
DOCUMENT: Document of the 1990 Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE
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DOCUMENT: Holocaust Memorial Days in the OSCE Region: An Overview of Good Governmental Practices (updated edition)
ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION: Observation of parliamentary elections in Tajikistan
ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION: Observation of presidential election in Ukraine
Links
- PUBLICATION: Hate crimes in the OSCE region - incidents and responses. Annual Report for 2008
- MULTIMEDIA: ODIHR releases 2009 Hate Crimes Report
- PUBLICATION: Preventing and responding to hate crimes
- PUBLICATION: Guidelines on Population Registration
- PUBLICATION: Human rights education in the school systems of Europe, Central Asia and North America: A compendium of good practice
- ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION: Limited observation of presidential election in Croatia
- ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION: Assessment of parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan
- ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION: Limited observation of presidential election in Romania
- ODIHR e-newsletter
ODIHR issues an e-mail newsletter every two months.
Documents
Election Observation Mission to the 28 February parliamentary elections Tajikistan: interim report 1
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Statement of preliminary findings and conclusions on the 7 February 2010 second round of the presidential election in Ukraine
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Statement of preliminary findings and conclusions for the second round of the presidential election in Croatia, 10 January 2010
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Election Assessment Mission final report on the 4 October 2009 early parliamentary elections in Greece
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Election Assessment Mission final report on the 27 September 2009 parliamentary elections in Portugal
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OSCE/ODIHR Election Support Team final report on the 20 August 2009 presidential and provincial council elections in Afghanistan
Election assessment mission final report on the 27 September 2009 Federal Republic of Germany Election to the Federal Parliament (Bundestag)
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Statement of preliminary findings and conclusions for the 22 November 2009 presidential election in Romania - second round
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Needs Assessment Mission report ahead of the 27 December 2009 parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan
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