Event archive
September 2021
Meeting
National Security Institutions and the Jewish Community in Lithuania: Raising Awareness and Building Effective Communication
The event is designed to raise awareness among law enforcement officials about Jewish history and culture in Lithuania. It also aims to lead to a greater understanding of the contemporary security challenges facing the Jewish community…
Training
Protecting Human Rights while Countering Terrorism Effectively: Train-the-Trainer Workshop
Topics and sessions As part of its capacity building activities on human rights and counter-terrorism issues, ODIHR will hold, in cooperation with the Office of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz), a train-the-trainer course…
Training
Protecting human rights defenders and co-creating inclusive civil society space in Europe: The role of NHRIs – 2021 NHRI Academy Follow-up Training
The 2021 NHRI Academy Follow-up Training aims to train senior and mid-level staff from Slovenia’s Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman on ways to: protect the rights of human rights defenders; promote the important role of human rights…
Meeting
National Security Institutions and the Jewish Community in Latvia: Raising Awareness and Building Effective Communication
The event is designed to raise awareness among law enforcement officials about Jewish history and culture in Latvia. It also aims to lead to a greater understanding of the contemporary security challenges facing the Jewish community, such…
Meeting
Human rights monitoring capacity building meeting for Roma civil society in Ukraine
As part of ODIHR’s project “Advancing the Human Dimension of Security in Ukraine”, the Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues (CPRSI) has been conducting a capacity building programme on human rights monitoring on Roma issues for Roma…
Training
Women’s Leadership Academy
ODIHR is supporting the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek in organizing an online Women’s Leadership Academy for over 120 women politicians, public servants and activists in Kyrgyzstan. The participants will follow an interactive course…
Training
Training on monitoring weapons and restraints for the Austrian Ombudsman Board
This training is part of ODIHR’s continuous work on preventing torture and strengthening the independent monitoring of places of detention in the OSCE region. Building on training successfully delivered to the Polish and Slovenian National…
August 2021
Meeting
Restorative Justice Solutions for Hate Crime
Restorative justice solutions emphasize the need to repair the harm caused by a criminal act, focusing less on retributive aspects of criminal justice. These solutions can substitute a criminal proceeding or applied in parallel to or after…
July 2021
Meeting
World Day against Trafficking in Persons 2021: Ensuring Inclusion of Victims and Survivors’ Voices in All Anti-Trafficking Efforts
World Day against Trafficking in Persons 2021: Ensuring Inclusion of Victims and Survivors’ Voices in All Anti-Trafficking Efforts
Workshop
Preventing and Addressing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Places of Deprivation of Liberty: Workshop for Monitoring Mechanisms
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will hold a workshop on 21 July 2021 to raise awareness about sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in places of deprivation of liberty and explore how oversight…
Meeting
The role of independent detention monitoring in protecting human rights in prisons while preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization to terrorism
On 15 July 2021, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), in collaboration with Penal Reform International (PRI), will hold a webinar to launch their new publication “Protecting Human Rights in Prisons while…
Training
ODIHR Advocacy School on Gender and Politics
ODIHR is organizing its first Advocacy School on Gender and Politics to strengthen its engagement with civil society organizations and women’s movements in Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus. This school will bring…
Meeting
Digital Technologies and Human Rights - Opportunities and Challenges: Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting III
The third Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting of 2021 will provide a platform for an exchange of views among OSCE participating States, OSCE institutions and other executive structures and international organizations, civil society and…
Training
Call for applications: Human Rights Monitoring and Reporting Training for Roma Human Rights Defenders
The purpose of this training is to build the capacity of Roma and Sinti human rights defenders and members of civil society organizations, enabling them to independently carry out high quality and objective human rights monitoring…
June 2021
Meeting
Gender responsive short-term visa policies: Practices and recommendations for the OSCE region
This event will present ODIHR’s policy brief ‘ Gender responsive short-term visa policies’ to attendees from OSCE participating states as well as regional and international organizations. The aim is to inspire discussion and raise awareness…
Meeting
Fourth ECPR-ODIHR Summer School on Political Parties and Democracy
The event aims, among other things, to provide instruction and discussion on a wider range of issues in the study of political parties, party systems, elections and democracy.