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This Joint Opinion was prepared by the European Commission for Democracy Through Law (Venice Commission) and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) following a request from the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Assembly Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee).

This Joint Opinion was prepared by the European Commission for Democracy Through Law (Venice Commission) and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at the request of the Chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia.

This report covers a conference organized by the OSCE Office on Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw on 27 and 28 June 2022 as part of its work to assist OSCE participating States to meet OSCE commitments on human rights, in particular the human rights of migrants and other persons crossing borders. The report can be downloaded below.

This report sums up the discussions on engaging the Ukrainian diaspora during a side event organized by the OSCE Office on Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) during the ten-day Warsaw Human Dimension Conference dedicated to debating the conditions of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the OSCE area.

This legal opinion was prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at the request of Public Defender of Georgia.

On 20 October 2021, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Prosecutor’s Office of Estonia co-organized a webinar on the topic of independence of prosecutors in Central Europe, with an emphasis on functional independence of prosecutors.

This legal opinion was prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at the request of the Judicial General Council of Mongolia.

This report provides a summary of a webinar organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) in November 2021 to present the findings of an ODIHR study on regularization of migrants in an irregular situation in the OSCE region published in August 2021 and to discuss the good practices and lessons learnt.

This note was prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at the request of the Chairman of the High Judicial Council of Kazakhstan.

This legal opinion was prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at the request of the Chair of the Committee on Human Rights in the World of the Parliament of Italy.