News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro trains state administration employees on anti-discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
Publishing date: 28 November 2017
The sixth training course of the seventh cycle on anti-discrimination was organized for 25 employees of the state administration by Montenegro’s Ministry for Human and Minority Rights in co-operation with the OSCE Mission to Montenegro on 27 and 28 November 2017 in Bečići. This training course dealt with preventing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro organizes second training on hate crime for representatives of judiciary
Publishing date: 27 November 2017
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro in co-operation with the Judicial Training Centre organized the second in a series of three one-day training courses on hate crime for representatives of the judiciary on 24 November 2017 in Podgorica...
Surveying unreported hate crimes in Poland in focus at ODIHR-organized meeting in Warsaw
Publishing date: 24 November 2017
The methodology and initial results of a study on unreported hate crimes against members of selected communities in Poland were explored by representatives of civil society, the national administration and international organizations during a meeting in Warsaw on 24 November 2017.
Relation between children’s rights and media, hate speech and hate crime focus of OSCE-supported regional conference on safeguarding human rights in Western Balkans
Publishing date: 24 November 2017
The responsibility of others in protecting children’s physical, moral and mental development, as well as children’s upbringing to guard them against the harmful media and internet content s was the focus of the first day of the two-day Western Balkans Regional Conference – Protect and Respect – Safeguarding Human Rights. The Conference is organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in partnership with Agency for Electronic Media and Office for the Protection of Human Rights of Montenegro, on 23 and 24 November 2017 in Podgorica.
OSCE Programme Office in Astana supports roundtable discussion on development of religious legislation in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 23 November 2017
ASTANA, 23 November 2017 – The development of legislation and law enforcement practices related to religious activities was the focus of an OSCE-supported roundtable discussion held in Astana on 22 November 2017.
Teacher training experts explore challenges and solutions in teaching about intolerance and anti-Semitism at OSCE/ODIHR meeting in Lisbon
Publishing date: 22 November 2017
Thirty-five education professionals from teacher training institutions across the OSCE region came together in Lisbon on 21 and 22 November 2017 for a meeting focusing on solutions to the challenges faced by teachers when they address intolerance, bias, prejudice, anti-Semitism and related subjects
Armenian Foreign Minister, OSCE officials at Yerevan event stress need to respect fundamental rights and freedoms, counter hate crimes in preventing discrimination against Christians, members of other religions
Publishing date: 21 November 2017
YEREVAN, 21 November 2017 – The protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms and the further development of effective measures to counter hate crime are central to preventing discrimination against Christians and members of other religions or beliefs, Armenia’s Foreign Minister and OSCE Officials said today at the official opening of a high-level conference in Yerevan, co-organized by the Austrian 2017 OSCE Chairmanship and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) with the support of the Armenian Foreign Ministry...