Publications

October/November 2007 issue.

The Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion and Belief was set up by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in 1997 to help protect the rights of individuals and religious groups. This factsheet outlines their main activities.

ODIHR recommendations on Slovakia 2020 elections ODIHR election observation mission recommends Slovakia, among other things, to make greater efforts to help persons with disabilities vote

This guide supplements existing ODIHR guidance on prosecuting hate crime by outlining the legal and conceptual differences between hate crime and criminalized ‘hate speech’; outlining the consequences of misapplying ‘hate speech’ provisions to prosecute hate crime, providing practical guidance on how to avoid this; and making recommendations on how to improve practice at the national level. It does not provide guidance on how to handle individual cases of any form of criminalized ‘hate speech’, nor does it suggest what forms of behaviour should be criminalized.

This brochure provides an overview of the goals and activities of the ODIHR's Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues.

Updated informatin on ODIHR activities