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Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
About
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights is based in Warsaw, Poland. It is active throughout the OSCE area in the fields of election observation, democratic development, human rights, tolerance and non-discrimination, and rule of law.
Press releases
OSCE's human rights and democracy office joins statement on the first annual International Day of Democracy
WARSAW, 15 September 2008 - The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and seven other organizations active in the field of promoting democracy, made the following statement on the occasion of today's International Day of Democracy...
OSCE trains Armenian human rights defenders on monitoring freedom of assembly
YEREVAN, 15 September 2008 - The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights launched a four-day training course today for Armenian human defenders on how to monitor and report on the freedom of assembly...
Time to open new chapter in relations, OSCE human rights chief tells Russian officials
![Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, at the start of an OSCE meeting on sustainable policies for Roma and Sinti integration in Vienna, 10 July 2008. (OSCE/Susanna Loof) Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, at the start of an OSCE meeting on sustainable policies for Roma and Sinti integration in Vienna, 10 July 2008. (OSCE/Susanna Loof)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916000047im_/http://www.osce.org/photo_gal/2008/07/32162_thumb.jpg)
MOSCOW, 9 September 2008 - The director of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, today called for a new chapter to be opened in the relations between his office and the Russian...
Features
ODIHR helps states to tackle hate crime with new legal guidelines
![Nasrin Khan (left), co-drafter of the ODIHR's legislative guidelines on hate crime, discusses discrimination law with a colleague. (OSCE/Sarah Crozier)
Nasrin Khan (left), co-drafter of the ODIHR's legislative guidelines on hate crime, discusses discrimination law with a colleague. (OSCE/Sarah Crozier)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916000047im_/http://www.osce.org/photo_gal/2008/04/30656_thumb.jpg)
New guidelines being prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will help states build a solid legal foundation for dealing with hate crime.
![ODIHR Director Ambassador Janez Lenarcic addresses the Chairmanship Seminar on Election-Related Issues at the Hofburg in Vienna, 21 July 2008. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf) ODIHR Director Ambassador Janez Lenarcic addresses the Chairmanship Seminar on Election-Related Issues at the Hofburg in Vienna, 21 July 2008. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916000047im_/http://www.osce.org/photo_gal/2008/07/32273_web.jpg)
ODIHR Director Ambassador Janez Lenarcic addresses the Chairmanship Seminar on Election-Related Issues at the Hofburg in Vienna, 21 July 2008. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf)
ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION: Observation of parliamentary elections in Belarus
ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION: Observation of presidential election in Azerbaijan
Documents
Final Report on the 21 May 2008 parliamentary elections in Georgia
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Election Assessment Mission Report on the 13-14 April 2008 parliamentary elections in Italy
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2008 Parliamentary Elections in Belarus: Interim Report 1
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Final Report on the presidential election in the Republic of Montenegro conducted on 6 April 2008
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Final Report on the 11 May 2008 early parliamentary elections in the Republic of Serbia
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Final Report on presidental election in the Republic of Serbia conducted on 20 January and 3 February 2008
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Election Assessment Mission Report on the parliamentary elections in Spain conducted on 9 March 2008
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Final Report on the 1 June 2008 Parliamentary Elections in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
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Needs assessment report ahead of general elections in the United States, 4 November 2008
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Needs assessment report ahead of presidential election in Azerbaijan, October 2008
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Needs assessment mission report ahead of the parliamentary elections in Belarus, 28 September 2008
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