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Event archive
May 2024
Training
Hate Crime Training for Icelandic Prosecutors: Train-the-trainer course
The role of prosecutors in recognizing and addressing hate crimes is essential to an effective hate crime response. Prosecutors must have a firm grasp of the hate crime concept and relevant provisions in national legislation in order to…
Meeting
Development of a Judicial Drafting Tool for War Crimes Cases: Working Meeting
ODIHR and Ukraine’s Supreme Court will organize an expert working group meeting to discuss the substantive, procedural and fair trial issues commonly confronting judges adjudicating Article 438 violations (war crimes) and related cases.
Conference
Promoting Conditions for Free and Fair Election Campaigns in the Western Balkans
ODIHR and the OSCE Mission to Montenegro are organizing a conference to exchange experiences and draw conclusions for follow-up action that aims to improve the conduct of election campaigns and the overall environment in which elections are…
Training
Hate Crime Training for Icelandic Police: Train-the-trainer course
ODIHR’s three-day workshop will train Icelandic police to recognize and work with hate crime cases and support hate crime victims by following the Office’s Training Against Hate Crimes for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) programme. Participants…
Training
Training for members of the armed forces on gender and human rights assessments
As part of the state structure, armed forces personnel are bound to respect human rights and international humanitarian law in the exercise of their duties. At the same time, armed forces also bear a responsibility to ensure that the rights…
April 2024
Seminar
The UK Parliamentary Integrity System: how it works and lessons learned.
This event aims to share the good practices and experiences of the multi-layered mechanisms that the UK House of Commons has in place to ensure public accountability and the political credibility of elected representatives. The speakers…

Conference
The Role of Civil Society in the Promotion and Protection of International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law: Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting I
Supplementary Human Dimension Meetings are mandated meetings, organized within the framework of the Permanent Council by the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, with support from ODIHR.
Training
I-CHANGE self-advocacy training for Roma women and feminist activists from Ukraine
The training aims to empower Ukrainian Roma women and feminist activists to stay firm by their voice and engage in self-advocacy for their rights. More specifically, the events will ensure venue for reflections on the obstacles, needs and…
March 2024
Training
Training on detention monitoring and the protection of human rights while preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism in prisons
Content The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is organizing a training course to strengthen the knowledge and skills of Albanian- and Macedonian-speaking independent detention monitors with regard to…
Training
Training on monitoring weapons and instruments of restraint for Slovakia's national anti-torture body
This training is part of ODIHR’s continuous work on preventing torture and other ill-treatment and strengthening the independent monitoring of places of deprivation of liberty in the OSCE region. Building on training successfully delivered…
Training
Training on Integrating the Issue of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Detention Monitoring
A training course on integrating the issue of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in detention monitoring in Serbia will take place in Belgrade from 25 to 27 March 2023. Organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human…
Meeting
Freedom of Peaceful Assembly Monitoring Network Meeting
ODIHR will hold its bi-yearly assembly monitoring roundtable with representatives of civil society organizations, academia and OSCE field operations with experience in the area of monitoring the right to freedom of peaceful assembly in the…
Meeting
Annual meeting of the ODIHR Panel of Experts on Freedom of Assembly and Association
The annual meeting of the ODIHR Panel of Experts on Freedom of Assembly and Association will take place in Warsaw on the 20 and 21 March 2024. The Panel provides expert advice, guidance and recommendations to ODIHR when analyzing the…
Meeting
Webinar for civil society on reporting hate crime data and incidents to ODIHR
Information and data submitted by civil society form a key part of ODIHR’s Hate Crime Report. Civil society data can help identify gaps in official reporting, and are used by states and international organizations to improve policies to…
Training
Training on monitoring weapons and instruments of restraint for the French national anti-torture body
This training is part of ODIHR’s continuous work on preventing torture and other ill-treatment and strengthening the independent monitoring of places of deprivation of liberty in the OSCE region. Building on training successfully delivered…
Training
Training: Building effective partnerships in support of migrant and refugee integration in Polish cities
This training, offered as part of the Academy on Integration of Migrants and Refugees in Polish Cities, will examine Polish cities’ perspective on the integration of migrants and refugees. It will put emphasis on drawing from cities’…