News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Joint Statement on International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Publishing date: 21 March 2013
VIENNA, WARSAW, STRASBOURG, 21 March 2013 – The social fallout from the ongoing global economic crisis must not become an excuse to allow racism and prejudice to go unchecked, said Morten Kjaerum, Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and Eva Smith Asmussen, Chair of the Council of Europe's European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), in a joint statement to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination...
Promoting tolerance, non-discrimination key topics of discussion by OSCE Chair-in-Office’s Special Envoy, Personal Representatives
Publishing date: 22 February 2013
The OSCE Chair-in-Office’s Special Envoy Viacheslav Yatsiuk met with the OSCE Chairperson’s Personal Representatives on tolerance and non-discrimination Senator Adil Akhmetov, Rabbi Andrew Baker and Ambassador Tetiana Izhevska, in Vienna on 21 February 2013...
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, OSCE Chair urges renewed efforts to fight intolerance, stressing importance of youth human rights education
Publishing date: 26 January 2013
KYIV, 27 January 2013 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara, marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day today with a call to honour the victims with renewed efforts to fight intolerance, discrimination and hate crimes...
OSCE Mission to Skopje completes “Stop Sports Violence” project
Publishing date: 21 December 2012
From 19 October to 14 December 2012, the OSCE Mission to Skopje organized a volleyball tournament between students of eleven secondary schools as part of a project to prevent sports violence in the cities of Tetovo and Gostivar, in the western part of the country...
OSCE/ODIHR examines good practices on collecting data on anti-Semitic hate crimes
Publishing date: 18 December 2012
Representatives from Jewish communities and civil society in the OSCE region met in Warsaw to share good practices in collecting data on anti-Semitic hate crimes, as well as effective responses, during a workshop organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 18 December 2012...
Law enforcement’s role in combating hate crime in focus at Milan roundtable discussion
Publishing date: 18 December 2012
The role of judges, prosecutors and law-enforcement agencies in combating hate crimes was the focus of a roundtable discussion organized by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and supported by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 17 December 2012...
Most OSCE participating States promote Holocaust remembrance, says ODIHR report
Publishing date: 12 December 2012
LIÈGE, Belgium, 12 December 2012 – Most participating States of the OSCE are meeting their commitment to promote remembrance of the Holocaust, according to an overview of remembrance practices released today by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at the Plenary Meeting of the Taskforce for International Co-operation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF)...