Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights was tasked by the Ministerial Council in 2003 to serve as a collection point for information related to tolerance and non-discrimination on the basis of information received from the participating States, civil society and intergovernmental organizations.

The ODIHR's Tolerance and Non-Discrimination department has developed the Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Information System. In order to share and promote practical initiatives and to provide information on issues related to tolerance and non-discrimination throughout the OSCE region, the website gives one-point access to:

• Information received from the OSCE states, NGOs and other organizations;
• Country pages providing one-point access to country initiatives, legislation, national specialized bodies, statistics, and other information;
• Thematic pages with information related to different key issues;
• International standards and instruments;
• Information from intergovernmental organizations including country reports and annual reports.

Legislation is available in co-operation with Legislationline, the ODIHR's free-of-charge online legislative database created to assist OSCE participating States in bringing their legislation into line with relevant international human rights standards.

The Tolerance and Non-Discrimination department is working with HURIDOCS (Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems International) in order to provide the best access to NGO reports and documents. This information is available through HURISEARCH, a search engine developed by HURIDOCS indexing the websites of more than 3,000 human rights NGOs.