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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Greater educational efforts, stronger condemnation of anti-Semitism truest way to commemorate victims of the Holocaust, OSCE officials say ahead of international remembrance day
Publishing date: 25 January 2019
WARSAW, 25 January 2018 – Enhanced educational efforts and stronger condemnation of anti-Semitism and all forms of intolerance must be part of any commemoration of the Holocaust, OSCE officials said ahead of Sunday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and Rabbi Andrew Baker, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism, stressed in a statement today that this was the truest way to commemorate the victims of genocide under the Nazi regime...
Comprehensive regional approach to countering hate crime focus of OSCE/ODIHR event in Milan
Publishing date: 15 January 2019
Identifying and building a regional approach to countering hate crime was the focus of an event organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the Milan Bar Association and the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, in Milan on 15 January 2019. The discussion
OSCE/ODIHR, Anne Frank House and Serbian Ministry of Education present customized teaching materials on countering anti-Semitism
Publishing date: 12 December 2018
Customized teaching materials to address anti-Semitism were presented at a train-the-trainer workshop organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development in Belgrade on 11 and 12 December 2018.
Methods to comprehensively address hate crime focus of OSCE/ODIHR awareness-raising seminar in Prague
Publishing date: 11 December 2018
Raising awareness about the specific nature of hate crime in the Czech Republic was the purpose of a seminar organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Czech Republic’s Government Agent for Human Rights in Prague on 11 December 2018. The participants –
Strengthening co-operation between government and civil society to increase security of Jewish communities focus of OSCE/ODIHR event in Sofia
Publishing date: 22 November 2018
The security needs of Jewish communities were at the centre of an event organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Sofia on 22 November 2018. The event, organized in partnership with Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry, the “Shalom” Organization of Jews in Bulgaria
On International Day for Tolerance, OSCE/ODIHR Director urges states to renew efforts to counter hate-motivated crime as new hate crime data published
Publishing date: 16 November 2018
WARSAW, 16 November 2018 – As the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) released its hate crime data for 2017 today, on the International Day for Tolerance, ODIHR Director Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir called on OSCE participating States to strengthen their efforts to counter hate crime...
OSCE/ODIHR toolkit to help states, civil society adopt comprehensive approach against hate crime presented at Vienna event
Publishing date: 14 November 2018
A toolkit developed by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to assist participating States in adopting a comprehensive approach to countering hate crime was presented to government officials and civil society representatives at a conference organized by ODIHR in