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.

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, 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.