Today, on 10 September, Warsaw hosted a meeting of OSCE participating States on human dimension. It was launched by a silent protest of the representatives of the Civic Solidarity Platform member organizations in support of the arrest of Oyub Titiev, the head of the “Memorial” Human Rights Center in Chechnya (see https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/oyub-titiev-detained-and-facing-criminal-investigation) and Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, who was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment as if organizing “terrorist acts” in Russia (details at https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2018/07/oleg-sentsov/).
The Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) of OSCE participating States is Europe’s largest annual human rights and democracy conference. It is organized every year by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) as a platform for the 57 OSCE participating States, the OSCE Partners for Co-operation, OSCE structures, civil society, international organizations and other relevant actors to take stock of the implementation of OSCE human dimension commitments, discuss associated challenges, share good practices and make recommendations for further improvement. (More on that at https://www.osce.org/odihr/hdim_2018)
Leave a Reply