November 2021
Training
Understanding and Addressing Hate Crime: Training for Maltese Civil Society Organizations
The two-day workshop will introduce civil society organizations (CSOs) working on hate crime monitoring and victim support in Malta to ODIHR’s hate crime methodology and will explore its applicability in the national context. Why it is…
Seminar
Regularization of Migrants in an Irregular Situation in the OSCE Region: Recent Developments, Points for Discussion and Recommendations
This webinar will bring together migration experts, policymakers and civil society representatives and focuses on good practices and lessons learnt from various approaches to migrant regularisation across the OSCE region. It will include a…
Conference
OSCE Project Co-ordinator at Donbas Media Forum - 2021
Donbas Media Forum is a flagship event for Ukrainian media community, bringing together participants from different regions of Ukraine for a fruitful discussion on media-related sphere. Launched by journalists from Donetsk and Luhansk…
Conference
15th Anniversary Conference: The Recommendations on Policing in Multi-Ethnic Societies
The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) is organizing an Anniversary Conference to mark 15 years since the adoption of The Recommendations on Policing in Multi-Ethnic Societies (Policing Recommendations). The Anniversary…
Workshop
Introducing the Méndez Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations
Addressed to national preventive mechanisms (NPMs) and national human rights institutions (NHRIs) in the OSCE region, this workshop aims to: introduce the new Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations and Information Gathering…
Conference
Addressing Anti-Semitism, Intolerance, and Discrimination through Education - Regional Conference for Policymakers, Teacher Trainers and Educators
The regional conference is designed to enhance the efforts of policymakers, teacher trainers, teachers, school directors and other educators (including from civil society) to develop effective policies, practices and pedagogical approaches…
Training
Preventing Terrorism and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism: A Community-Policing Approach - Pilot Training Course
Topics and sessions As part of its capacity building activities on human rights and counter-terrorism issues, ODIHR will co-organize a pilot training course in Skopje, North Macedonia, from 3 to 5 November 2021. The two-and-a-half day…
Roundtable
Third expert meeting: The role of independent national media regulatory authorities in regaining trust in the media
The third roundtable will examine the role of independent national media regulatory authorities in regaining trust in the media. The growth of legal and policy initiatives among the OSCE participating States, which specifically attempt to…
October 2021
Conference
Contemporary Challenges of Judicial Reform in Ukraine. Vth International Conference
Implementation of the judicial reform is one of the key demands of both the national expert community and of international partners of Ukraine. Ukrainian society as well insist on the inevitability and imminence of judicial branch…
Conference
5th OSCE-wide Seminar on Passenger Data Exchange
Following the success of previous Passenger Data Seminars from 2017-2020, the OSCE and UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) are organising the 5 th OSCE-wide Seminar on Passenger Data Exchange on 28 – 29 October 2021, in order to provide…
Meeting
The road to abolition of the death penalty in the OSCE region
The webinar will launch ODIHR’s 2021 background paper The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area and provide a platform for OSCE participating States, international and national civil society organizations as well as other interested experts to…
Conference
1st Eastern Europe Informal Working Group on Passenger Data
The 1st Eastern European Informal Working Group (IWG) will be a discussion platform, which will allow participants to share good practices and lessons learned; methodologies in data collection from travelers; and, security analysis across…
Meeting
Effective and Human Rights-Compliant Policing: Train-the-Trainer Course
ODIHR has developed the course to strengthen the capacity of police officers to work effectively with Roma and Sinti while complying with international human rights standards. The course involves police trainers, including staff from police…
Conference
4th VIENNA ENERGY SECURITY DIALOGUE
Energy Markets and Security During the Global Recovery
Seminar
High-Level Webinar on the Independence of Prosecutors in Central Europe
Webinar participants will discuss to what extent prosecutors in Central Europe are independent to make decisions based on the applicable law and investigation at hand. The event will feature presentations by merited experts on prosecutorial…
Workshop
Prevention and eradication of torture in the OSCE region: Implementing para. 21 of MC Decision 7/20
In their Ministerial Council Decision 7/20 adopted in 2020, the OSCE participating States have explicitly and unequivocally pledged to uphold the absolute prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment and have committed to “ take…