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Event archive
November 2019
Meeting
Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting (SHDM) III on the Right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly
The third Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting will provide a platform for an exchange of views among OSCE participating States, OSCE institutions and other executive structures and a variety of international organizations, civil society…
Training
Training on Monitoring Weapons and Restraints and the Prevention of Torture
The training event is designed for members of Slovenia’s Ombuds Institution, the national preventive mechanism for the prevention of torture and civil society representatives. It aims to enhance the participants’ understanding of monitoring…
Training
Annual Trial Monitoring Training 2019
ODIHR will organize a training event in trial monitoring and fair trial rights for NGOs in Kyrgyzstan from 12 to 14 November 2019. The aim of the training is to encourage civil society actors’ involvement in trial monitoring activities in…
Training
Young Policy Advisers Course for OSCE Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation
Part of ODIHR’s Young Policy Advisers Course (PolAd) training programme, the course is designed for young civil servants at an early-middle stage of their careers from the six countries that are the OSCE’s Mediterranean Partners for Co…
Workshop
Shaping Politics and Migration Narratives
Governments and politicians, through their policies and discourse, set the tone for public debate. But politicians are not the only ones shaping the narrative and they do not operate in a vacuum. Developing a better and more nuanced…
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…