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The OSCE-UNHCR Regional Conference on Access to Civil Documentation and Prevention of Statelessness in South-Eastern Europe took place in Skopje on 17 October 2023. The Conference was co-organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) and the OSCE Mission to Skopje (OMSk), under the auspices of the 2023 OSCE Chairpersonship of North Macedonia.

This meeting report reflects on a two-day expert workshop organized on 9-10 February 2023 by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). It compiles preliminary information on Ukrainian diaspora engagement and contributions so far and outlines areas for potential future development.

This report maps and promotes opportunities for enhancing co-operation between monitoring actors and border police authorities in South-Eastern Europe, and is designed to further the discussion on best practices and transferable knowledge in this area.

Trafficking in human beings (THB) for labor exploitation is a complex phenomenon in and a pressing issue in that today’s global economy, which is characterized by highly complex and multi-layered supply chains containing goods, materials, and labor from all corners of the globe. The problem has been recognized at the international level since the adoption of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children.

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.

Combating Intolerance and Discrimination against Migrants and Refugees: Importance of Alliances and Consolidated Approaches, via Zoom, 17 December 2021.

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.

1344th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council