Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

Workshop for civil society on anti-Semitic hate crimes in the OSCE region

Ilya Lensky, Director of the Jews in Latvia Museum, speaks at a workshop on collecting data on anti-Semitic hate crimes as Melissa Sonnino, Community Affairs Coordinator at CEJI - A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe, listens. Warsaw, 18 December 2012. (OSCE/Shiv Sharma)
Ilya Lensky, Director of the Jews in Latvia Museum, speaks at a workshop on collecting data on anti-Semitic hate crimes as Melissa Sonnino, Community Affairs Coordinator at CEJI - A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe, listens. Warsaw, 18 December 2012. (OSCE/Shiv Sharma)

When: 18 December 2012

Where: Warsaw

Organized by: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)

The workshop will gather representatives of non-governmental and Jewish community organizations from across the OSCE region for a one-day workshop on countering anti-Semitic hate crimes.

The objective of the workshop is to:

  • introduce civil society and Jewish community representatives to the concept of hate crime and familiarize them with the work of ODIHR in combating hate crime;
  • share good practices in collecting data on anti-Semitic incidents;
  • strengthen international co-operation in this area and provide a forum for dialogue for civil society and Jewish community representatives from different parts of the OSCE region.

The workshop will take place at ODIHR headquarters in Warsaw.