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Annual Report 2015 2015 ODIHR OSCE OFFICE FOR DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS Annual Report 2015 ANNUAL REPORT ODIHR OSCE OFFICE FOR DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS Annual Report 2015 Published by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Ul. Miodowa 10 00-251 Warsaw Poland www.osce.org/odihr © OSCE/ODIHR 2016 All rights reserved. The contents of this publication may be freely used and copied for educational and other non-commercial purposes, provided that any such reproduction is accompanied by an acknowledgement of the OSCE/ODIHR as the source. ISBN 978-92-9234-938-7 Designed by Nona Reuter Printed in Poland by Poligrafus Jacek Adamiak Contents Overview by the ODIHR Director 04 Elections 08 Democratization 14 Human Rights 26 Tolerance and Non-Discrimination 32 Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues 38 Human Dimension Meetings 2015 44 Selected 2015 Conferences and Meetings 47 Extrabudgetary Programmes and Projects 2015 54 Legislative Reviews in 2015 59 2015 Publications 60 Election Reports and Statements Released in 2015 61 ODIHR Structure and Budget 63 4 • Elections Overview by the ODIHR Director Overview • 5 OSCE/ODIHR Director Michael Georg Link, speaking at the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on OSCE Contribution to the Protection of National Minorities, in Vienna, 29 October 2015 OSCE/ Micky Amon-Kröll The 57 participating States that make participating States whenever and of human rights. In 2015 alone, over up the Organization for Security and wherever the rights of marginalized 500 of Ukrainian stakeholders bene- Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) contin- individuals are at stake. All participat- fited from training events on human ued to face challenges to the imple- ing States have recognized that their rights monitoring and hate crime, mentation of their human dimension commitments to strengthen democra- workshops on political party financing, commitments in 2015. Both Europe’s cy and human rights safeguard against meetings on women’s political partici- migration crisis and the continuing real threats to the peace and security pation and seminars on parliamentary crisis in and around Ukraine shaped of their societies. As such, this Annual ethics. much of the work done by the OSCE Report looks back and highlights the Office for Democratic Institutions Office’s activities in what was a very The crisis in and around Ukraine and Human Rights (ODIHR) through- eventful and intense year of work sup- continued to have a very significant out the year. ODIHR is the largest of porting the implementation of commit- human dimension impact, with report- the OSCE’s autonomous institutions ments across the human dimension ed violations of human rights law. and covers almost all aspects of the throughout the OSCE region. In Crimea, the freedoms of assem- human dimension – not only the pro- bly, association, movement, expres- tections of fundamental freedoms, but In ODIHR's work in response to the sion and access to information were also work in the areas of elections, crisis in and around Ukraine, the Office all unduly restricted by the de fac- democratic governance and rule of launched a project to strengthen dia- to authorities as pointed out in the law, promoting tolerance and non-dis- logue among civil society and with key Office’s joint report with the OSCE crimination, and improving the situa- governmental stakeholders in 2015. In High Commissioner on National tion of Roma and Sinti. its project activities, ODIHR emphasiz- Minorities (HCNM) that was released es that peace and security are intrinsi- in September. The Office also close- Today, ODIHR works within a broad cally linked with justice and co-opera- ly monitored and reported on the mandate of commitments in these tion, the advancement of democracy, situation of Roma in Ukraine during areas, allowing us to assist OSCE and respect for and effective exercise the crisis. 6 • Overview To help counter hate crime and foster This year, the election observation reforms or on specific electoral issues. freedom of religion or belief in the mission to Ukraine’s local elections The ultimate goal of election obser- country, ODIHR delivered a series of marked the 300th mission ODIHR has vation is the improvement of election workshops designed to strengthen deployed since its creation nearly 25 legislation and practice, introduced the ability of Ukrainian police to iden- years ago. Our election observation by government authorities, as a result tify and investigate hate crimes. In missions continue to be one of the of observers’ work and post-elector- December, ODIHR adapted its Under- most visible activities of the Office. al engagement. The Office also held a standing Hate Crimes handbook to the The findings and recommendations of roundtable on electoral dispute resolu- context of Ukraine and made it avail- election observation reports provide a tion, attended by representatives of 35 able in Ukrainian, Russian and English. valuable resource for the Office’s oth- countries across the OSCE. Following ODIHR’s Contact Point er programmes, and provide all OSCE for Roma and Sinti Issues continu- participating States concrete steps to Restrictions on the freedom of peace- al advocacy of policies to address strengthening key aspects of demo- ful assembly continued to be applied the challenges faced by Roma in the cratic elections. in some participating States. As part of areas of education, employment, its third cycle of assembly monitoring, housing and policing in Ukraine and Our election observation activities cov- in 2015 ODIHR observed assemblies in a major round-table in November on ered 17 countries during 2015. In fol- five participating States. promoting Roma inclusion in Ukraine, low up to ODIHR reports, a number of the country established a working states have taken welcome initiatives Likewise, ODIHR continued to monitor group to implement a strategy to pro- to hold inclusive and comprehensive states’ responses to terrorism in 2015, tect and integrate the Roma national electoral review events and invited and the impacts on human rights, minority there. ODIHR for consultations on planned including the freedoms of expres- sion, religion or belief, assembly and association and the right to privacy. In November, ODIHR published its report Michael Georg Link (r), Director of ODIHR, and Valeriya Lutkovska on the Human Rights Situation of (l), Ukraine’s Human Rights Commissioner, signing an agreement to enhance co-operation between ODIHR and Lutkovska’s office in a Detainees at Guantanamo, a compre- broad range of human rights activities in Ukraine. Warsaw, 3 June hensive assessment of human rights 2015. OSCE/Agnieszka Rembowska violations in the detention facility. This year, the Office maintained its efforts to address hate crime and oth- er forms of intolerance, particularly through close work with civil society, both building coalitions to help foster tolerance and in partnership to col- lect comprehensive hate crime data. ODIHR’s hate crime reporting this year included information provided by 43 OSCE participating States. ODIHR also continues to work closely with law-en- forcement agencies and prosecutors to assist them in identifying, investigat- ing and successfully prosecuting hate crimes. Overview • 7 Within its mandates both to support workshops to share good practices in Office worked to serve the people of Roma and Sinti inclusion and to pro- migrant integration and meetings to the OSCE in 2015, by supporting the mote remembrance as a tool to count- discuss the impact of the crisis on rela- implementation of their governments’ er intolerance and to protect, promote tions between local communities and human dimension commitments. and defend human rights and funda- migrants and refugees, as well as con- mental freedoms in today’s world, tinually monitoring the situation. Michael Georg Link ODIHR published Teaching about and Director Commemorating the Roma and Sinti In all these endeavours, and many OSCE Office for Democratic Genocide. The launch event in April others, throughout 2015, ODIHR Institutions and Human Rights brought together over 60 educators, showcased its firm commitment to researchers, historians, Roma and its mandate and role in promoting the Sinti civil society to explore the link human dimension of security, espe- between history and present and the cially during times of crisis, by sup- potential of history education for pro- porting the work of governments moting non-discrimination and equality and civil society. The following pages for Roma and Sinti. present a more complete descrip- tion of all we did throughout the year, OSCE participating States in Europe with special attention to our work in experienced unprecedented inflows of response to the migrant crisis and refugees, migrants and asylum seek- that in and around Ukraine. I hope ers, generating significant pressure on this annual report gives you a better migration and asylum systems across understanding of the many ways this the continent. An estimated 1 million refugees and migrants from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia – about one-third of whom are women Ivica Dačič (l), OSCE Chairperson in Office and Foreign Minister of Serbia and Michael Georg Link (c), Director of OSCE/ODIHR, listening and children, including unaccompanied to Grzegorz Schetyna, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, during his minors – crossed into OSCE region in opening address at 2015 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) in Warsaw, 21 September 2015 Piotr Markowski 2015.
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