February 2023
Workshop
Training for Civil Society on Addressing Religion-Related Hate Crime
This online course, taking place on 1, 8 and 15 February 2023, will train up to 20 civil society representatives, including those from faith-based organizations and religious or belief communities, on recording and reporting hate crimes…
January 2023
Seminar
Institutionalizing Gender Mainstreaming in Parliament: Participatory Gender Audits and Gender Action Plans
National parliaments of the OSCE region have a unique role to play in the gradual transformation of our societies towards gender equality. National parliaments are well placed to champion the objective of gender equality and promote gender…
Workshop
Workshop for Youth on Fostering Inclusion in Poland: Call for Applications (Krakow Edition)
ODIHR is organizing a series of workshops for Polish and Ukrainian young people on fostering equal, inclusive and cohesive societies throughout Poland as part of ODIHR’s “Advancing the Human Dimension of Security in Ukraine” project. In…
Seminar
Recognizing and Responding to Antisemitism in Schools
ODIHR and UNESCO have partnered with the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation – Institute for Visual History and Education (USC SFI), the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the American Federation of Teachers to provide…
December 2022
Conference
Spotlight on AI and Freedom of Expression: A SAIFE Expedition
The event “SAIFE Expedition” takes place in the framework of the RFoM project to put a Spotlight on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Freedom of Expression (SAIFE) on Thursday, 15 th and Friday, 16 th December mainly at the Hofburg…
Workshop
First Workshop for Youth on Fostering Inclusion in Poland: Call for Applications
ODIHR is organizing a series of workshops for Polish and Ukrainian young people on fostering equal, inclusive and cohesive societies. The workshops will be organized throughout Poland, with the first one taking place in Warsaw. Attention…
Seminar
Freedom of religion or belief trends: Looking back over 2022 and forward into 2023
ODIHR is organizing an online public event on 12 December 2022 to explore the positive and negative impacts on the state of freedom of religion or belief of factors such as legislative/policy changes and general human rights trends across…
Conference
OSCE-wide event on countering hate speech
Hateful and aggressive rhetoric has always been a very destructive force in our societies. In the last decades, the digital transformation of the media landscape, which has radically increased both the magnitude and outreach of hateful…
Roundtable
Judicial independence and judicial appointments in Hungary
ODIHR is organizing an expert roundtable with judges, civil society organizations, academia and international organizations to take stock of recent developments regarding the normative framework and practices for judicial appointments in…
Training
Effective and Human Rights-Compliant Policing in Roma and Sinti Communities: Train-the-Trainer Course
The training course is organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Mission to Skopje, in co-operation with the Training Centre of the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of North Macedonia…
Training
Integrating the Issue of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Detention Monitoring
Content and objectives ODIHR is organizing a two-day training course for staff of the Office of the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights on integrating the issue of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in detention monitoring. The…
Workshop
Online launch of ODIHR’s 2022 Background Paper on the Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
OSCE participating States have committed to exchange information on the question of the abolition of the death penalty and to provide information on the use of the death penalty to the public. Where the death penalty is still in use…
Ministerial council
29th OSCE Ministerial Council
The Ministerial Council is the central decision-making and governing body of the OSCE. The annual meeting is an opportunity for the Foreign Ministers to review and assess the security situation in the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian area, as…
November 2022
Meeting
Women Human Rights Defenders in the Online Space: Challenges and Opportunities
To mark the International Day of Women Human Rights Defenders as part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, ODIHR invites interested State and civil society representatives to join an online discussion on challenges and…
Workshop
Protecting human rights while preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization leading to terrorism (VERLT) in prisons: Central Asia workshop
ODIHR is organizing a regional workshop to promote independent detention monitoring and increased oversight for enhanced protection of the rights of persons deprived of liberty while preventing and countering violent extremism and…
Seminar
Addressing Violence against Women in Politics in the OSCE Region – The Launch of New ODIHR Toolkit
ODIHR organizes this online event as part of the global 16 Days of Activism Campaign against Gender-based Violence. Members of parliaments and leading experts will discuss current challenges and opportunities in preventing violence against…