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International standards of freedom of religion or belief legislation discussed at OSCE meeting in Turkmenistan
At an event organized by the OSCE in Ashgabat on 24 May 2013, experts on questions of religious freedom legislation discussed with Turkmen officials the country’s Law on Religious Freedom and Religious Organizations... ()
High-level OSCE conference in Tirana calls for comprehensive approach to combating intolerance and discrimination
TIRANA, 21 May 2013 – A comprehensive approach, including education to promote mutual respect and understanding, is necessary to combat intolerance and discrimination, including hate crime, participants said today at the opening of a two-day OSCE conference in Tirana...
OSCE Conference in Tirana to focus on tolerance and non-discrimination
VIENNA, 17 May 2013 – Promoting tolerance and non-discrimination is focus of the OSCE High-Level Conference to take place in Tirana from 21 to 22 May, 2013... ()
Anti-Discrimination Commission presents 2012 report in Skopje with OSCE support
The OSCE Mission to Skopje supported an event on 29 April 2013 to present the 2012 Annual Report of the Anti-Discrimination Commission...
OSCE promotes interfaith dialogue in Kosovo
A series of five forums organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo for the representatives of the Islamic, Serbian Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish communities to facilitate interfaith dialogue, promote tolerance and freedom of religion and belief, concluded in Mitrovicë/Mitrovica on 19 April 2013... ()
OSCE and Montenegrin Ministry of Human and Minority Rights promote fight against discrimination through training
Strengthening the mechanisms of promoting human and minority rights was the topic of a workshop organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro and the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights on 18 April 2013 in Przno, Becici... ()
ODIHR trains police trainers on preventing and responding to hate crimes
Police trainers from 11 OSCE participating States completed a three-day specialized police training programme on recognizing, understanding and investigating hate crimes, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Association of European Police Colleges (AEPC) from 10 to 12 April 2013...
OSCE and Council of Europe discussed the protection of the rights of persons belonging to national minorities and tolerance and non-discrimination issues
STRASBOURG, 5 April 2013 – Ambassador Ihor Prokopchuk of Ukraine, Chairperson of the OSCE Permanent Council, and Ambassador Josep Dalleres of Andorra, Chairperson of the Ministers’ Deputies of the Council of Europe co-chaired today the 17th meeting of the Co-ordination Group between the Council of Europe and the OSCE. Representatives of the OSCE Troika, Bureau of the Ministers’ Deputies of the Council of Europe, Secretariats of both Organizations and their focal points also took part at the meeting... ()
![A little girl holding up a banner that reads "Stop racism" at an anti-racism rally in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 22 March 2008.](http://www.osce.org/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/hires/1/4/100254.jpg?1363864909 "A little girl holding up a banner that reads "Stop racism" at an anti-racism rally in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 22 March 2008.")
Joint Statement on International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination
VIENNA, WARSAW, STRASBOURG, 21 March 2013 – The social fallout from the ongoing global economic crisis must not become an excuse to allow racism and prejudice to go unchecked, said Morten Kjaerum, Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and Eva Smith Asmussen, Chair of the Council of Europe's European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), in a joint statement to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination...
Promoting tolerance, non-discrimination key topics of discussion by OSCE Chair-in-Office’s Special Envoy, Personal Representatives
The OSCE Chair-in-Office’s Special Envoy Viacheslav Yatsiuk met with the OSCE Chairperson’s Personal Representatives on tolerance and non-discrimination Senator Adil Akhmetov, Rabbi Andrew Baker and Ambassador Tetiana Izhevska, in Vienna on 21 February 2013... ()