March 2023
Meeting
Annual meeting of the ODIHR Panel of Experts on Freedom of Assembly and Association
The first annual meeting since the COVID-19 pandemic of ODIHR’s Panel of Experts on Freedom of Assembly and Association (the “Panel”) will be held on 6-7 March 2023. The current Panel consists of 16 members whose four-year mandate began on…
Training
Integrating the Issue of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Detention Monitoring
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan are organizing a training event from 1 to 3 March 2023 in Tashkent for staff of the Office of the Authorized Person of the…
February 2023
Meeting
The Role of Defence Lawyers in Death Penalty Cases: Side Event at the 52nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council
In partnership with IBAHRI and the Permanent Mission of Belgium to the United Nations in Geneva, ODIHR organizes a side event on the role of defence lawyers in death penalty cases at the 52nd Session of the United Nations Human Rights…
Workshop
Civil Society Organizations and the Follow-up on Electoral Recommendations
As part of the “Support to Electoral Reforms in the Western Balkans” project, ODIHR is organising a workshop in Warsaw on 21 and 22 February 2022 to discuss key challenges and opportunities for civil society’s engagement in electoral follow…
Meeting
Towards gender-responsive border management
ODIHR, together with UN Women and DCAF, is organizing an online discussion on 3 February 2023 to look into some of the persisting challenges and positive practices for the integration of a gender perspective in policy and programming…
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…