News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE/ODIHR trains Ukraine’s law enforcement officers on countering hate crime
Publishing date: 21 January 2016
To strengthen their response to hate crime, 46 trainers and law enforcement officers from Ukraine took part in a training-of-trainers event, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 19-21 January 2016 in Odesa.
Intolerance faced by migrants, refugees at the centre of OSCE/ODIHR fact-finding workshop in Warsaw
Publishing date: 11 December 2015
Hate incidents targeting migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers were at the centre of a fact-finding workshop organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw on 11 December 2015.
Scholars and students from different religious traditions explore ways to confront economic inequality at OSCE outreach event in Rome
Publishing date: 8 December 2015
Confronting the growing economic inequality in the OSCE region and beyond was the topic of an inter-religious dialogue organized by the OSCE Secretariat’s Communication and Media Relations Department (COMMS), the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Angelicum’s Faculty of Social Sciences on 30 November 2015 in Rome...
OSCE/ODIHR Director commends Moldova's adoption of 27 January as Holocaust remembrance day
Publishing date: 27 November 2015
WARSAW, 27 November 2015 Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), praised yesterday’s decision by the Moldovan parliament to declare 27 January the Day of Commemorating the Victims of the Holocaust, following a government proposal...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports exchange of anti-discrimination best practices
Publishing date: 26 November 2015
SKOPJE, 26 November 2015 – The exchange of best practices in the area of promotion and protection from discrimination on different grounds, between the national Anti-discrimination Commission and the Austrian Equality Infrastructure, was the focus of today’s OSCE-supported conference in Skopje...
Coalition building among civil society groups, co-operation with governments the focus of OSCE/ODIHR event on countering hate crime and other forms of intolerance
Publishing date: 19 November 2015
Facilitating collaboration among civil society groups and strengthening co-operation with governments were the focus of a two-day conference organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Vienna, on 18 and 19 November 2015.
OSCE/ODIHR-supported study visit of Ukrainian police and prosecutors to Poland focuses on hate crime and freedom of religion or belief
Publishing date: 21 October 2015
Police, prosecutors and members of the Security Service from Ukraine discussed effective responses to hate crime and international standards on freedom of religion or belief during a three-day study visit to Warsaw organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) from 19 to 21 October 2015.