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OSCE Chairperson-in-Office expresses gratitude to outgoing ODIHR Director Lenarčič
Publishing date: 30 June 2014
Content type: Press release
BERN, 30 June 2014- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, today expressed his gratitude to Ambassador Janez Lenarčič of Slovenia, the outgoing Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), for his work over the last six years...
Teaching of the Roma and Sinti genocide is crucial to addressing discrimination, say participants at OSCE meeting
Publishing date: 2 June 2014
Collections: Roma and Sinti genocide
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Roma and Sinti
The meeting, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), brought together participants from Roma and Sinti civil society organizations and from academia to discuss experiences and good practices within the OSCE area on teaching about the Roma and Sinti genocide during World War II.
Czech Government must foster equal access to quality education for Roma children, say participants at OSCE/ODIHR seminar
Publishing date: 29 May 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Roma and Sinti
The Government of the Czech Republic must do more to ensure the integration of Roma children into the country’s school system, participants said at a seminar on equal access to quality education for Roma children organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Prague on 29 May 2014.
On International Roma Day, OSCE/ODIHR Director calls for greater efforts to improve co-operation between police and Roma communities
Publishing date: 8 April 2014
Content type: Press release
What we do: Policing, Roma and Sinti
WARSAW, 8 April 2014 – Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), called today for greater efforts to improve relations and co-operation between police forces and Roma communities. On the occasion of International Roma Day, he further called on law-enforcement authorities to ensure effective police responses to violence against Roma and Sinti people in the OSCE area...
Continued efforts to address the situation of Roma and Sinti needed, say participants of OSCE meeting
Publishing date: 7 November 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: National minority issues, Roma and Sinti
VIENNA, 7 November 2013 – Governments should take steps to more effectively integrate Roma and Sinti communities, participants said today at the opening of the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting in Vienna, which runs until 8 November 2013...
Greater involvement of local authorities needed for successful Roma integration, say participants at OSCE human rights conference
Publishing date: 25 September 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Roma and Sinti
Local authorities need to take greater ownership of and responsibility for the integration of Roma communities, said participants of the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 24 September 2013...
OSCE/ODIHR Director highlights tangible results of grants programme during visit to Roma settlement in Kosovo
Publishing date: 5 September 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Roma and Sinti
BRNJEŠ/BËRNJESH, 5 September 2013 – Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), visited a Roma settlement in Gračanica/Graçanicë in central Kosovo today, to meet with municipal and Roma community representatives and discuss efforts to promote Roma integration and improve access to public services...