News and press releases

VIENNA, 27 June 2017- A team of students from the San Pablo CEU University of Spain was today awarded the first prize in a regional competition organized by the OSCE United in Countering Violent Extremism (#UnitedCVE) campaign as part of the Peer to Peer (P2P): Facebook Global Digital Challenge...

Efforts to address anti-Semitism, discrimination and intolerance through coalition building that addresses gender and interlinking forms of discrimination was the focus of an event organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) from 21 to 23 June 2017 in

VIENNA, 22 June 2017 – Freedom of religion or belief, and tolerance and non-discrimination are essential to ensuring peace and security in the OSCE region, participants said today at the opening of a two-day OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting in Vienna...

Representatives of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and European Union bodies, as well as experts and activists from civil society groups, came together in Brussels on 30 May 2017 for the Joint Day of Action against Anti-Semitism and Anti-Muslim Hatred and

SARAJEVO, 27 May 2017 – The Personal Representatives of the Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Discrimination and Promoting Tolerance conducted a country visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, which ended in Sarajevo yesterday.

Strengthening the ability of civil society groups to counter hate crime was the focus of a training event co-hosted by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) from 19 to 22 May 2017 in Istanbul. The event, organized in co-operation with the European Muslim Initiative

A group of 20 legal professionals – prosecutors, judges and justices of the peace – and academics discussed the important role of the criminal justice system in addressing hate crimes at a workshop co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 19 May 2017