Left to right: Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski, ODIHR Director Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Austrian Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Linhart and OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger during the Opening Plenary Session of the 2017 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, 11 September 2017, Warsaw. (OSCE/Piotr Dziubak)
Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) addresses participants in the Opening Plenary Session of the 2017 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, as Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski (left) and Austrian Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Linhart (right) listen, 11 September 2017, Warsaw. (OSCE/Piotr Dziubak)
Austrian Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Linhart, representative of the OSCE's Austrian Chairmanship, addressing participants in the Opening Plenary Session of the 2017 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, 11 September 2017, Warsaw. (OSCE/Piotr Dziubak)
Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski speaking during the Opening Plenary Session of the 2017 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, 11 September 2017, Warsaw. (OSCE/Piotr Dziubak)
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger delivers his remarks during the Opening Plenary Session of the 2017 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, 11 September 2017, Warsaw. (OSCE/Piotr Dziubak)
Lamberto Zannier, the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, delivers a speech during the Opening Plenary Session of the 2017 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, 11 September 2017, Warsaw. (OSCE/Piotr Dziubak)
Harlem Désir, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, speaks during the Opening Plenary Session of the 2017 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, 11 September 2017. (OSCE/Piotr Dziubak)
Marietta Tidei, Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, speaking during the Opening Plenary Session of the 2017 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, 11 September 2017. (OSCE/Piotr Dziubak)
Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, opens the 2017 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, 11 September 2017. (OSCE/Piotr Dziubak)
Claudia Luciani, Director of Democratic Governance at the Council of Europe's Directorate General of Democracy and Jonathan Cohen, Executive Director of Conciliation Resources, discuss key issues that threaten the human dimension in the OSCE region and how the organisation should respond during a high-level panel moderated by journalist Annabelle Chapman. The panel was part of the Opening Plenary Session of the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 11 September 2017. (OSCE/Piotr DziubakP)
More than 500 delegates of OSCE participating States have registered to participate in the 2017 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. 11 September 2017, Warsaw. (OSCE/Piotr Dziubak)
Representatives of OSCE participating States at the Opening Plenary Session of the 2017 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, 11 September 2017, Warsaw. (OSCE/Piotr Dziubak)
A seat for civil society speakers in the plenary hall of the 2017 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Warsaw, 22 September 2017. (OSCE/Maria Kuchma)
Two new publications, the Handbook on Observing and Promoting the Electoral Participation of Persons with Disabilities and the Guidelines for Public Security Providers in Elections, were launched by ODIHR at an event held in Warsaw on 12 September 2017 on the margins of the annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. (OSCE/Agnieszka Rembowska)
Tytti Matsinen, Adviser on Human Rights at the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission, speaking at an event for the release of an ODIHR booklet to address the under-representation of persons with disabilities in political and public life. The event was held in Warsaw on 13 September 2017 on the margins of the annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. (OSCE/Filip Błażejowski)
Dirck Ackermann from the German Armed Forces' Office of the Protestant Chaplaincy makes a presentation during a side event on freedom of religion or belief in the armed forces co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the European Organisation of Military Associations (EUROMIL) on 14 September 2017, during the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw. (OSCE/Maria Kuchma)
Karoline Fernández de la Hoz Zeitler, Director of the Spanish Centre for Racism and Xenophobia (OBERAXE) at the Ministry of Employment and Social Security, speaking during an ODIHR event on countering hate crime held in Warsaw on 15 September 2017, during the annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. (OSCE/Tomasz Filipiak)
Anna-Katharina Deininger, the Special Representative on Youth and Security of the Austrian OSCE Charimanship, speaking during an event on youth engagement held on the margins of the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, 18 September 2017, Warsaw. (OSCE/Thomas Rymer)
Taina Bien-Aimé, Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW), speaking about the role of civil society in countering human trafficking during an event organized in co-operation with the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on the margins of the annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, 18 September 2017. (OSCE/Maria Kuchma)
Civil society representatives from Roma and Sinti communities during a training event on participation and advocacy organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on the margins of the annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, 17 September 2017. (OSCE/Ewa Jasińska)
Zola Kondur, Vice-president of the Roma Women Fund "Chiricli" and Deputy Chair of an inter-ministerial working group on the protection and integration of Roma into Ukrainian society, speaking at an ODIHR-organized event on Roma security issues in Ukraine. The event was held in Warsaw on 18 September 2017, during the annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. (OSCE/Ewa Jasińska)
Azamat Shambilov, Regional Director of Penal Reform International in Central Asia, addresses participants in an OSCE/ODIHR-supported event on protecting human rights in prisons while countering violent extremism and radicalization leading to terrorism (VERLT), as Johannes Heiler, ODIHR Adviser on Anti-Terrorism Issues, listens. The event was held in Warsaw on 18 September 2017 during the annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. (OSCE/Thomas Rymer)
Barbara Limanowska, Senior Gender Mainstreaming Expert at the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), addressing participants in the ODIHR Women's Power Breakfast held in Warsaw on 21 September 2017. She spoke about her organization's efforts to evaluate and improve the gender awareness of members of parliaments. The event took place on the margins of the 2017 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting.
(OSCE/Agnieszka Rembowska)
Ambassador Christian Strohal, Special Representative for the OSCE's Austrian Chairmanship, delivering a speech at the closing plenary session of the 2017 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Warsaw, 22 September 2017. (OSCE/Maria Kuchma)
Participants in the closing plenary session of the 2017 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting watching to a video address by Lyudmila Alekseeva, Chairperson of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Warsaw, 22 September 2017. (OSCE/Maria Kuchma)