Warsaw Human Dimension Conference

The OSCE was founded on the principles that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms was just as important to the concept of security as sovereignty of borders and peaceful settlement of disputes. And nearly every year since 1993, OSCE participating States met for the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) – Europe’s largest human rights conference – to hold each other accountable to these values.

Unfortunately, this year, Russia, with support from Belarus, deliberately blocked HDIM in a blatant attempt to avoid international scrutiny for their woeful human rights records and keep civil society from speaking up and telling the truth about what is happening in their countries. However, 2022 OSCE Chair Poland, with the support of the OSCE’s Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), is making sure that even if HDIM can’t happen, there is still a forum for governments, international organizations, and civil society from across the OSCE region to gather, to review and foster participating States’ compliance with their human rights-related OSCE commitments, and to suggest future action for the organization. The Warsaw Human Dimension Conference will be held from September 26 to October 7, 2022 in Warsaw, Poland.

Detailed information on the Warsaw Human Dimension Conference can be found on the OSCE website.

The conference will be held in person, but live-streaming of the sessions will be provided on the OSCE website.

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U.S. Statements at the #WHDC:

By U.S. Mission OSCE | 12 September, 2023 | Topics: Civil Society and NGOs, Human Rights

Warsaw Human Dimension Conference

U.S. Statements at the #WHDC:

Joint Statement on the Recent Developments in the North of Kosovo

On the Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh