OSCE conference participants call for action to combat anti-Semitism
(OSCE/Christian Dematte)Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, delivered a keynote speech at the OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism, Vienna, 20 June 2003. (OSCE/Christian Dematte) Photo details
VIENNA, 20 June 2003 - The first high-level OSCE conference devoted specially to the issue of anti-Semitism ended today with calls by participants for the Organization and its 55 participating States to reaffirm their commitments made in Copenhagen in 1990 to condemn racial and ethnic hatred, including anti-Semitism, and to undertake effective follow-up action to demonstrate these commitments in practice.
A separately designated conference on racism, discrimination and xenophobia, to be held in September in Vienna, will also - like the anti-Semitism conference that just ended - discuss and gather recommendations that will be forwarded to the annual OSCE human dimension conference in Warsaw.
More than 400 participants from governments and non-governmental organizations attended the OSCE Conference on anti-Semitism, which looked into best practices to prevent anti-Semitism through awareness-raising, education, the rule of law and anti-discrimination legislation, law enforcement, cultural preservation, and methodologies for combating anti-Semitism.
More information, including papers presented at the anti-Semitism conference, and details of the other OSCE human dimension conferences to be held later this year can be found on the Organization's website.
A separately designated conference on racism, discrimination and xenophobia, to be held in September in Vienna, will also - like the anti-Semitism conference that just ended - discuss and gather recommendations that will be forwarded to the annual OSCE human dimension conference in Warsaw.
More than 400 participants from governments and non-governmental organizations attended the OSCE Conference on anti-Semitism, which looked into best practices to prevent anti-Semitism through awareness-raising, education, the rule of law and anti-discrimination legislation, law enforcement, cultural preservation, and methodologies for combating anti-Semitism.
More information, including papers presented at the anti-Semitism conference, and details of the other OSCE human dimension conferences to be held later this year can be found on the Organization's website.