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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Participants discuss good practices for combating intolerance and discrimination, especially regarding religion or belief, at OSCE conference in Rome
Publishing date: 23 October 2018
ROME, 23 October 2018 – Government officials and representatives of civil society and religious communities discussed good practices for addressing racism, xenophobia and other forms of discrimination, including on the basis of gender, and for countering anti-Semitism and intolerance against Muslims, Christians and members of other religions at an OSCE conference in Rome yesterday...
Building Bridges event supported by the OSCE brings together students of different ethnicities in Skopje
Publishing date: 15 October 2018
SKOPJE, 13 October 2018 – Students from 27 schools throughout the country gathered for a day of interaction, fun and entertainment as part of the Building Bridges Fund annual event in Skopje today, organized by the OSCE Mission to Skopje...
OSCE organizes training for journalists on freedom of expression and hate speech prevention in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 5 October 2018
An OSCE Programme Office in Astana-supported seminar on the protection of freedom of expression and policies to counter hate speech on the Internet, co-organized with the NGO Legal Media Centre, took place on 5 October 2018 in Uralsk, Kazakhstan.
Victim support must be at the centre of an effective response to hate crime, say participants at OSCE/ODIHR event
Publishing date: 20 September 2018
Techniques to improve states’ support for victims of hate crime were the focus of an event organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 20 September in Warsaw on the margins of the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. The discussions focused on how
Addressing anti-Semitism through education focus of event co-organized in Warsaw by OSCE Italian Chairmanship, ODIHR and group of OSCE delegations
Publishing date: 14 September 2018
How educational policy and practice can address anti-Semitism was at the centre of discussions at an event held on 14 September 2018 on the margins of the OSCE's Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw.
Good practices for building civil society coalitions to address intolerance and discrimination subject of OSCE/ODIHR event in Warsaw
Publishing date: 13 September 2018
Good practices for promoting tolerance and non-discrimination and the challenges that civil society may face in this work were the subject of an event held on 13 September 2018 by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on the margins of the Human Dimension
Improving responses to hate crime focus of workshop co-organized by ODIHR and European Network of Police Women
Publishing date: 31 August 2018
Strengthening skills in recognizing and investigating hate crimes was at the centre of a train-the-trainer workshop for women police officers organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the European Network of Police Women (ENP) from 29 to 31 August