Event Archive
April 2024
Conference
International Conference on Media Literacy and Media Self-Regulation
Representatives of media and organizations promoting media literacy, as well as experts interested in understanding the mechanics of media self-regulation, and building and strengthening cooperation in the sphere are invited to the…
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.
Conference
24th Conference of the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons
Register here: 2024 24th Alliance Against Trafficking (osce.org) until 9 April 2024 Join the conversation also on Twitter using #cthb24 . Ahead of the conference, use #askOSCE to send questions about the conference topic. Notwithstanding…
March 2024
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…
Conference
Under the Watchful Eye: Human Rights, Gender and Surveillance
To mark International Women’s Day 2024, OSCE Institutions supported by the Chairpersonship of Malta are organizing a half-day conference to examine the intersection of gender and digital surveillance. In bringing together the three…
Conference
Final conference of the training series on Human rights at international borders: Human rights principles, monitoring, safety and security
In 2022 and 2023, ODIHR trained 83 human rights defenders from 31 countries in South-Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, the Northern Mediterranean and the Southern Mediterranean region (OSCE Mediterranean Partners for Cooperation)…
Meeting
Gender equality in Poland: a democratic push back against the gender backlash?
The ODIHR's project CHANGE (Capitalizing on the Human Dimension Mandate to Advance Gender Equality) is organizing a half day consultation meeting with civil society organization representatives, including organizations of persons with…
February 2024
Meeting
OSCE PA Winter Meeting
The 23rd Winter Meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will be held from 22 to 23 February in Vienna, Austria. The Winter Meeting consists of meetings of each of the OSCE PA’s general committees, its three ad hoc committees, the…
Conference
Regional Exchange on Strengthening Campaign Finance Systems and Practices
ODIHR is organizing the “Regional Exchange on Strengthening Campaign Finance Systems and Practices” conference to share knowledge and draw conclusions for follow-up actions aimed at improving existing campaign finance systems in the context…
January 2024
Meeting
Making the Nelson Mandela Rules actionable for prison staff: Launch of the ODIHR/PRI trainer’s manual in Russian
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will host a webinar on 30 January 2024 to launch the Russian-language version of its Trainer’s Manual on the Nelson Mandela Rules, developed together with Prison Reform…
Meeting
Annual meeting of ODIHR Core Group of Experts on Political Parties
The annual meeting of the ODIHR Core Group of Experts on Political Parties (the Core Group) will take place on 26 January 2024. ODIHR established the Core Group in 2011 as a body to advise ODIHR when assisting OSCE participating States in…
December 2023
Meeting
The role of defence counsel in war crime trials in Ukraine
On 14 December 2023, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), in co-operation with the Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision in Ukraine, hosted a webinar focused on selected substantive and procedural topics of…
Meeting
Engaging the Ukrainian Diaspora in Reconstruction and Development
An online launch of the ODIHR report on efforts to engage the Ukrainian diaspora in reconstruction and development in the aftermath of the 2022 military attack by the Russian Federation will take place on 12 December 2023. The report…
Meeting
Expert consultation meeting: Addressing systemic challenges in judiciaries
ODIHR will organize an expert consultation meeting on addressing systemic challenges in judiciaries on 12 December 2023 in Warsaw. In particular, the meeting will provide a space to identify, share and discuss some of the lessons learned in…