News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE/ODIHR hosts confidence and capacity-building event in Kyiv to pave the way forward in addressing hate crime in Ukraine
Publishing date: 26 April 2016
Practices of monitoring, reporting and investigating hate crimes in Ukraine were the focus of the Second National Confidence and Capacity Building event, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Kyiv on 26 April 2016.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier stresses importance of ODIHR’s work during visit to headquarters in Warsaw
Publishing date: 19 April 2016
WARSAW, 19 April 2016 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier, today visited the headquarters of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), in the context of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Office...
OSCE hosts seminar in Kazakhstan on freedom of expression and hate speech on Internet
Publishing date: 19 April 2016
ASTANA, 19 April 2016 – An OSCE-supported two-day training seminar on protecting freedom of expression and countering hate speech on the Internet began today in Astana...
Countering intolerance and discrimination is vital to meeting current security challenges, say participants at OSCE meeting
Publishing date: 14 April 2016
VIENNA, 14 April, 2016 – Promoting tolerance and effectively countering discrimination are vital to ensuring security, and must be at the centre of policies to address current threats, participants said today at the opening of a two-day OSCE meeting in Vienna...
Roma remain one of most vulnerable groups, continue to face difficult living conditions and discrimination in access to social protection, health, employment and adequate housing, as stated in reports by independent bodies
Publishing date: 8 April 2016
BELGRADE, 8 April 2016- On the occasion of International Roma Day, the Delegation of the European Union to Serbia, the United Nations Country Team in Serbia, the OSCE Mission to Serbia and the Council of Europe Office in Belgrade reaffirm our strong commitment to equality and non-discrimination...
Attacks against refugees, asylum seekers and migrants are unacceptable, say heads of European human rights institutions on International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Publishing date: 21 March 2016
On the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the heads of Europe’s main intergovernmental human rights institutions call for a strong response to xenophobic attacks against migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, and call on governments and state authorities to uphold their international obligations in this regard...
OSCE/ODIHR delivers series of workshops on countering hate crime for prosecutors in Poland, Bulgaria and Georgia
Publishing date: 18 March 2016
Recognizing, investigating and prosecuting hate crimes in Poland and Bulgaria were the focus of two workshops organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), from 7 to 18 March 2016 in Lublin and Sofia.