Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

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.

ODIHR deploys election observation mission to former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

WARSAW/SKOPJE, 30 April 2008 - The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is deploying an election observation mission for the 1 June pre-term parliamentary elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia...

OSCE, Council of Europe welcome agreement to change recently amended assembly law

WARSAW/STRASBOURG, 21 April 2008 - The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and Council of Europe's Venice Commission today welcomed the agreement reached with Armenian state representatives on changes to the amended assembly law...

ODIHR helps states to tackle hate crime with new legal guidelines

New guidelines being prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will help states build a solid legal foundation for dealing with hate crime.

Ambassador Robert Barry at a press conference in Skopje on the opening of the OSCE/ODIHR's mission to observe the 1 June 2008 parliamentary elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 30 April 2008. (OSCE/Yegor Tilpunov)

PUBLICATION: ODIHR Annual Report 2007

PUBLICATION: Trial-Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners

PUBLICATION: Legislative Assistance factsheet

Current vacancies at the ODIHR

• CONFERENCE: Constitutional Justice, Warsaw, 14-16 May 2008
• CONFERENCE: National Institutions against Discrimination in Combating Racism and Xenophobia, Vienna, 29-30 May 2008
• ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION: Limited observation of parliamentary elections in Serbia
• ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION: Observation of parliamentary elections in Georgia
• ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION: Observation of parliamentary elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
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2008 Parliamentary Elections in Serbia: Interim Report 2

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2008 Parliamentary Elections in Georgia: Interim Report 1

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Final Report on the 25 November 2007 Parliamentary Elections in Croatia

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Statement of Preliminary Findings and Conclusions on the 6 April 2008 Presidential Election in Montenegro

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