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Adam Kobieracki, Director of the OSCE's Conflict Prevention Centre, addresses journalists at a press conference where he presented an OSCE Mission report on tackling hate crimes, Sarajevo, 13 November 2012.

OSCE Mission report highlights need to tackle hate crimes to promote security and build cohesive society in Bosnia and Herzegovina

13 November 2012
SARAJEVO, 13 November 2012 – Bias-motivated crimes send a strong message of intolerance and prejudice towards victims and their communities, can increase tensions in society, and must not be ignored, said Adam Kobieracki, the Director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre, presenting in Sarajevo today an OSCE Mission report on tackling hate crimes...
Azra Junuzović, the Deputy Head of ODIHR's Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Department, presents the ‘Guidelines for Educators on Countering Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims: Addressing Islamophobia through Education’ during a meeting on the role of education in promoting tolerance, as Taskin Tankut Soykan, ODIHR Adviser on Combating Intolerance against Muslims, listens. Paris, 5 November 2012.

Role of education in promoting respect for diversity highlighted at Paris meeting

5 November 2012
Education is a powerful tool in promoting tolerance and mutual understanding, representatives of education ministries and institutions said at a meeting organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), UNESCO and the Council of Europe in Paris on 5 November 2012...
Rina Toprlak (r), a deaf person employed by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo for three days, as part of an initiative to demonstrate the skills of people with disabilities to potential employers, discusses her tasks with Zana Preniqi, her interpreter, Prishtinë/Priština, 21 October 2011.

OSCE Mission helping ensure a better future for the hearing-impaired in Kosovo

29 October 2012
With only 10 certified sign-language interpreters in all of Kosovo, hearing-impaired people regularly encounter problems with access to basic municipal services, police or legal system... ()
Trainer Steve Wessler speaks at a workshop on hate crimes for high-ranking Kosovo police officers organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ferizaj/Urosevac, 19 October 2012.

OSCE Mission helps Kosovo police identify and investigate hate crimes

19 October 2012
A series of six workshops held across Kosovo on identifying, investigating and responding to hate crimes for 90 high-ranking Kosovo police officers including station commanders, regional deputy directors, and regional chiefs of operations concluded on 19 October 2012 in Ferizaj/Uroševac... ()
(L-r) ODIHR Hate Crime Officers Joanna Perry and Carolyn Bys, and Floriane Hohenberg, the Head of ODIHR’s Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Department, present the highlights from ODIHR’s annual hate crime report for 2011, which is due to be published in November, at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Warsaw, 3 October 2012.

Data on hate crime in focus at annual OSCE human rights meeting

3 October 2012
The collection and reporting of hate crime data were the focus of a discussion organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 3 October 2012... ()
Dubioza Kolektiv, a band from Sarajevo, performing at an OSCE-supported multiligual concert, Prishtinë/Priština, 20 August 2012.

OSCE Mission in Kosovo spurs cultural and linguistic tolerance

3 October 2012
Some 2,500 young people from different parts and communities in Kosovo gathered in Germia Park on the outskirts of Prishtinë/Priština for a rare event on 20 August 2012. The OSCE Mission to Kosovo in co-operation with the Municipality of Prishtinë/Priština and the Norwegian Embassy sponsored an open-air multilingual concert with rock bands from Kosovo and the region... ()
(L-r) Professor W. Cole Durham, a member of ODIHR’s Advisory Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief; Robert-Jan Uhl, ODIHR’s Adviser on Freedom of Religion or Belief, and Floriane Hohenberg, the Head of ODIHR’s Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Department, lead the panel at a meeting to gather ideas and suggestions for the forthcoming ‘Guidelines on Recognition of Religious or Belief Communities’, Warsaw, 2 October 2012.

Religious and belief communities need legal recognition, say participants at OSCE human rights conference

2 October 2012
Religious and belief communities should be granted quick, simple and non-discriminatory access to legal personality, said participants at a meeting on the margins of the OSCE’s annual human rights conference in Warsaw on 2 October 2012... ()
Azra Junuzovic, the Deputy Head of ODIHR's Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Department, speaking at a roundtable meeting on countering intolerance against Muslims through education for societies in transition, Vienna, 6 September 2012.

Role of education in countering intolerance against Muslims in focus at ODIHR meeting

6 September 2012
The important role of education in countering intolerance against Muslims was the theme of a meeting of representatives of education ministries and educational institutions organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Vienna on 6 September 2012...
L-r: Jeannette Kloetzer, the Deputy Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana, Banu Nurgaziyeva, Director of the Socio-Political Department at the Ministry of Culture and Information and Yerbolat Sembayev, Deputy Director of the Multilateral Co-operation Department at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, during a meeting to discuss the drafted sixth and seventh periodic reports on implementation of the International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Astana, 14 August 2012.

OSCE Centre in Astana supports discussion on countering discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance

14 August 2012
ASTANA, Kazakhstan, 14 August 2012 – Some 40 representatives of state agencies and non-governmental organizations gathered at a roundtable meeting today to discuss the combined sixth and seventh periodic reports of Kazakhstan on the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination... ()

OSCE Office holds workshops for journalists on freedom of religion and expression in Armenia

19 July 2012
National legislation on freedom of religion or belief and freedom of expression, as well as OSCE and international human rights standards in the field are the topics of a three-day workshop for Armenian journalists held from 19 to 21 July 2012. It is organized by the non-governmental organization Collaboration for Democracy Centre with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan... ()
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