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Event archive
October 2019
Meeting
Addressing Intolerance, Discrimination and Hate Crime: Responses of Civil Society and Christian and Other Religious Communities
This working-level meeting will bring together 25 representatives of civil society, religious communities and inter-governmental organizations to discuss the situation of intolerance against Christians and other communities in the OSCE area…
Training
Training Event on Human Rights Monitoring and Reporting Addressed to Roma Human Rights Defenders
Attention: application deadline extended! Part of ODIHR’s project “Advancing the Human Dimension of Security in Ukraine”, the training event is designed for Roma human rights defenders working on issues related to the human rights of Roma…
September 2019

Training
Youth Activist Forum: Engaging the OSCE to Address Racism and Xenophobia
As manifestations of anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, intolerance and discrimination continue across the OSCE region, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) continuously receives information on hate crimes…
Conference
Human Dimension Implementation Meeting 2019
The Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) of OSCE participating States is Europe's largest annual human rights and democracy conference. ODIHR organizes it every year in Warsaw as a platform for the 57 OSCE participating States, the…
Seminar
Migrant Integration at the Local Level in Poland: Moving Forward
The event will bring together a variety of actors working in the field of migrant integration at the local level in Poland. The participants will include representatives of local authorities, civil society organizations and academic…
Meeting
3rd Meeting with Women Parliamentarians: Strengthening Gender Equality in Parliaments through Peer-Exchange
The third meeting with women parliamentarians aims to facilitate an exchange of experiences and strengthen the capacities of women parliamentarians in Belarus to consider gender aspects in parliamentary work. The event will gather 15 women…
Training
Young Women’s Leadership Training
The Young Women’s Leadership Training aims to empower young women to act as advocates for women’s rights and gender equality. Thirty young women academics, representatives of governmental structures, gender equality advocates, women working…
August 2019
Workshop
2nd ECPR-OSCE/ODIHR Summer School on Political Parties and Democracy
Organised under the auspices of the Standing Group on Central East European Politics and with the support of the Standing Group on Political Parties of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), the School will bring together an…
Training
Police and Roma – Effective and Human Rights-Compliant Policing
International human rights standards and effective policing practices will be the focus of a two-day training course for 20 Ukrainian police officers, which is organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR…
July 2019
Meeting
Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting (SHDM) II on Effective Multilateralism in the OSCE Human Dimension
The second Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting will examine specific actors and issues relevant to the topic of multilateralism in the human dimension, where multilateral approaches can be particularly advantageous. The discussions will…
Meeting
Expert meeting: Developing indicators for the full and equal enjoyment of the freedom of peaceful assembly by all
ODIHR is organizing the expert meeting on developing indicators for the full and equal enjoyment of the freedom of peaceful assembly by all , which will take place on 8 and 9 July 2019 in Vienna. The event will bring together up to 25…
Workshop
Workshop on gender sensitive legislation and parliamentary oversight
Organized by ODIHR and the OSCE Mission to Skopje, the workshop aims to strengthen the capacities of the parliament of North Macedonia to perform its legislative and oversight function in a gender-sensitive manner. Twenty parliamentarians…
Meeting
Support to Elections in the Western Balkans: Mid-term review visit to Montenegro
The main goals of the visit are: to assess how ODIHR electoral recommendations have been implemented; to discuss possible initiatives to address the outstanding recommendations. To that end, ODIHR has scheduled meetings with the Ministry of…
Workshop
Human Rights Monitoring and Digital Security Workshop
The interactive workshop is organized for human rights defenders from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River. It aims to improve the participants´ knowledge and understanding of the human rights monitoring cycle and monitoring principles…
June 2019
Workshop
Workshop on Understanding and Improving Hate Crime Recording and Data Collection in Bulgaria
The two-day event consists of a high-level workshop to raise awareness of the need to strengthen Bulgaria’s response to hate crimes, and a technical workshop with practitioners from civil society, the police, the prosecution service, the…
Meeting
International Election Observation: Why It Matters
ODIHR experts will participate in a Helsinki Commission briefing on the importance of international election observation, which will take place at the US Congress. ODIHR election experts will provide an overview of the Office’s work across…