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Recommitting to advance gender equality in politics was the topic of discussion at the annual Women’s Power Breakfast organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at the margins of the Warsaw Human Dimension Conference this week. ODIHR also presented the latest gender-responsive governance toolkit.

Dialogue and partnership across religious or belief communities play an invaluable role in strengthening human rights and security, participants agreed at the launch of a new guide entitled Belief, Dialogue and Security by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) during the Warsaw Human Dimension Conference this week.

A new report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on the right to monitor assemblies was discussed during a side event at the Warsaw Human Dimension Conference this week.

SARAJEVO – Yesterday’s local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina were competitive and efficiently prepared with fundamental freedoms respected, following extensive changes to election legislation imposed by the High Representative to increase the integrity of the election process, despite insufficient efforts to promote public engagement, international observers said in a statement today.

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) marked two decades of providing legislative assistance to nearly 40 states with an event to discuss the importance of human rights-compliant legislation and good lawmaking for strong democracies and ODIHR’s role in this process, which took place during the Warsaw Human Dimension Conference.

The human rights monitoring carried out in Ukraine by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) since Russia’s military attack on 24 February 2022 was the topic of discussion at an event held during the Warsaw Human Dimension Conference on 4 October 2024.

Including trafficking survivors' experiences is crucial to fight against human trafficking effectively, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said at the launch of its new guidance on establishing National Survivor of Trafficking Advisory Councils (NSTACs) during the 2024 Warsaw Human Dimension Conference.