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Bulgarian police to receive ODIHR-sponsored training on tackling hate crime
Publishing date: 15 February 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
Bulgaria became the latest OSCE participating State to sign on to ODIHR’s Training Against Hate Crimes for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) programme, finalizing an agreement at a ceremony in Sofia on 15 February...
OSCE Chairperson marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, emphasizes importance of tolerance education
Publishing date: 27 January 2011
Content type: Press release
What we do: Roma and Sinti, Tolerance and non-discrimination
VILNIUS, 27 January 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day today with a call for OSCE participating States to further intensify efforts to combat anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance and promote remembrance and education...
OSCE human rights office, Hungarian authorities to co-operate in combating hate crimes against Roma
Publishing date: 23 November 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Roma and Sinti, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
BUDAPEST, 23 November 2010- Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today said his Office would work with Hungary's authorities to combat hate crimes against Roma...
National contact points on combating hate crime meet in Warsaw
Publishing date: 16 November 2010
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
ODIHR's third annual meeting for its network of national contact points on combating hate crime got under way in Warsaw on 16 November, International Day of Tolerance.
Education officials stress need to combat anti-Semitism in schools at OSCE/ODIHR meeting
Publishing date: 8 November 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Education, Tolerance and non-discrimination
VIENNA, 8 November 2010- Schools across the OSCE region must step up efforts to combat anti-Semitism through education, said participants in an OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) meeting for education ministry...
Switzerland's Muslims discuss creation of umbrella organization at meeting co-hosted by OSCE/ODIHR
Publishing date: 22 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
BERN, 22 October 2010- Representatives of Switzerland's Muslim communities will discuss how the interests of Muslims can be presented more effectively at the national level during a conference in Bern.
OSCE human rights office gathers youth activists from across Europe to commemorate Roma victims of genocide
Publishing date: 2 August 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
OSWIECIM, Poland, 2 August 2010- Some 80 Roma and non-Roma youth activists have gathered today for an event organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the International Roma Youth Network and the Malopolska authorities...