News and press releases

A two-day training course for national ministry representatives on UN Security Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, highlighting the importance of including women in peace processes and conflict resolution, was held on 13 and 14 May 2014, in Chisinau...

Elections experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) met with a delegation from the Icelandic Ministry of the Interior in Warsaw on 14 May 2014 to discuss ODIHR Election Assessment Mission’s final report for the 2013 parliamentary elections in Iceland.

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) brought together 17 women representatives from 13 OSCE participating States to speak about their experiences of discrimination, including as the victims of hate crimes, at a focus group meeting in Warsaw on 13 May 2014.

WARSAW / THE HAGUE, 12 May 2014 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) today released the report from the joint Human Rights Assessment Mission the two institutions sent to Ukraine in early March 2014...

WARSAW, 12 May 2014 – Enhanced co-operation between the OSCE and regional and international actors is key to supporting the implementation of OSCE commitments in the Human Dimension, participants at the opening of an OSCE meeting in Warsaw said today...

BERN, 8 May 2014- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, welcomed the appointment of Michael Georg Link of Germany as Director of the Organization's main human rights body, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)...

Key challenges in ensuring the independence and accountability of associations, as well as providing for their funding, were the focus of a roundtable discussion organized in Warsaw by ODIHR and the Venice Commission on 6 and 7 May 2014.