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Participants of the seminar on Gender and Intersetional Activism discussing and presenting challenges and opportunities to include intersectionality in gender equity work. Seminar is part of the Words Into Action to Address Anti-Semitism project. 23 June 2017, Barcelona.

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Marco Ventura, Professor of law and religion at the University of Siena in Italy and a member of the OSCE/ODIHR Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief, addresses the opening of the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Vienna, 22 June 2017.

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The Joint Day of Action against Anti-Semitism and Anti-Muslim Hatred and Discrimination was marked on 30 May 2017 with a series of international events in Brussels and concluded with an interfaith dinner at the European Jewish Community Centre in the Belgian capital.

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Train-the-trainers event on countering hate crime organized by ODIHR to sharpen the participants’ skills in understanding, identifying and prosecuting hate crimes, Warsaw 25 May 2017.

Countering hate crime: working with prosecutors

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The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) works closely with prosecutors to effectively counter hate crimes. This video provides an overview of ODIHR’s capacity-building programme for prosecutors. Visit hatecrime.osce.org for more information.

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Participants in a training event in Istanbul discuss the role of civil society in countering hate crime. The event was organized by OSCE/ODIHR in co-operation with the European Muslim Initiative for Social Cohesion (EMISCO) and Istanbul's Tuzla Municipality from 19 to 22 May 2017.

Addressing anti-Semitic hate crimes and the security needs of Jewish communities

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Anti-Semitic hate crimes have a profoundly negative impact on everyday lives of Jewish communities and individuals. They infuse fear and a sense of insecurity among them. As part of its Words into Action to Address anti-Semitism project, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) works with governments, parliaments and civil society groups in the OSCE region to help build their capacities to prevent and respond to such crimes and effectively address the security needs of Jewish communities.

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Cristina Finch, Head of the ODIHR Tolerance and Non-discrimination Department, listens as ODIHR Director Michael Georg Link speaks at the launch event for a new ODIHR publication, Understanding Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes and Addressing the Security Needs of Jewish Communities, at the German Parliamentary Society in Berlin, 15 May 2017.

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Icelandic police officers participate in an OSCE/ODIHR training against hate crime for law enforcement (TAHCLE), Reykjavik, 26 April.

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Participants speaking about co-operation between state institutions and civil society groups to address hate crimes at the ODIHR Third National Confidence and Capacity-Building Event in Kyiv on 11 and 12 April.

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Young activists attending an ODIHR event in Budapest in November 2016.

Grassroots Groups Turn Words into Action to Address Anti-Semitism, Intolerance and Discrimination

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To deepen outreach to communities affected by anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination, collect examples of good practices and promote stakeholders’ efforts, ODIHR selected and funded eight short projects in July 2016, focusing on education and coalition-building to address those issues. These are their stories. The effort was part of ODIHR’s project Turning Words into Action to Address Anti-Semitism funded by Germany.