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OSCE Chairman welcomes appointment of new head of Organization's human rights body
Publishing date: 15 May 2008
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights, Elections
HELSINKI, 15 May 2008- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, welcomed today the decision by the OSCE Ministerial Council to appoint Janez Lenarcic of Slovenia as the head of the Organization's human rights body...
OSCE Warsaw conference to discuss role of constitutional justice in protecting human rights
Publishing date: 14 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
WARSAW, 14 May 2008- A conference on the role of constitutional justice in protecting human rights and upholding the rule of law in the OSCE region opened in Warsaw today...
OSCE, Council of Europe: amendments to Armenia's assembly law raise serious concerns
Publishing date: 2 April 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Elections
WARSAW/STRASBOURG, 2 April 2008- In a joint legal opinion, the Council of Europe's Venice Commission and the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights concluded that recent amendments to Armenia's assembly law raise serious concerns...
International rights bodies call on politicians to lead fight against intolerance and discrimination
Publishing date: 18 March 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
WARSAW/STRASBOURG/VIENNA, 18 March 2008- In a joint statement issued on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on 21 March, three leading human rights agencies call on political leaders to assume...
OSCE organizes training course for Azerbaijan's Ombudsman
Publishing date: 21 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Human rights
BAKU, 21 December 2007- Building the capacity of the office of the Ombudsman of the Azerbaijan Republic is the aim of a training course that began in Baku today...
OSCE human rights body, Yad Vashem launch teachers' guide on addressing anti-Semitism
Publishing date: 19 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Education, Tolerance and non-discrimination
WARSAW/JERUSALEM, 19 December 2007- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, today launched a guide for teachers on how to address anti-Semitism...
OSCE human rights body raises concern of attacks and restrictions on human rights defenders
Publishing date: 10 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
VIENNA, 10 December 2007- A report by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on patterns of human rights violations against those defending such rights was launched in Vienna today on International Human Rights Day...