The OSCE Implementation Meeting on Human Dimension Issues took place on 17-27 October 2000 in Warsaw. The Meeting was organized by the Office for
Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
The Meeting was the fifth of its kind. It reviewed implementation of the full range of OSCE human dimension commitments in all 55 OSCE participating States.
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SESSION 8 (open)
1. Date: Monday, 23 October 2000
Opened: 12.15 p. m. Suspended: 1.10 p. m. Resumed: 3.10 p. m. Closed:
6.05 p. m.
2. Chairman: Mr. T. M. Buchsbaum (Moderator)
3. Subjects discussed -Statements -Decisions:
REVIEW OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF HUMAN DIMENSION COMMITMENTS BY PARTICIPATING STATES IN THE OSCE AREA; CONSIDERATION OF WAYS AND MEANS OF IMPROVING IMPLEMENTATION, ON THE BASIS OF THE BROADEST POSSIBLE INFORMATION, IN PARTICULAR FROM OSCE BODIES AND INSTITUTIONS AS WELL AS A REVIEW OF THE PROCEDURES AND MECHANISMS FOR MONITORING AND ENHANCING COMPLIANCE WITH PARTICULAR COMMITMENTS
Tolerance and non-discrimination:
-Prevention of aggressive
nationalism and chauvinism
-Ethnic cleansing
-Racism
-Xenophobia
-Anti-Semitism
European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, Netherlands (also on behalf of France-European Union, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Turkey), Greek Helsinki Monitor, International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA), Macedonian Human Rights Movement in Greece, Minority Rights Group -Greece, Czech Republic, Minority Rights Group International, Belarus, Russian Federation
Freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief
ODIHR Advisory Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Human Rights Without Frontiers, United States of America, Watch Tower Bible and Tracts Society of Pennsylvania, Association of Christian Churches in Russia, Ukraine, Netherlands (also on behalf of France-European Union, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Turkey), Netherlands, Koordinierungsrat der türkischen Vereine in Baden, Church of Scientology-European Human Rights Office, Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Greek Helsinki Monitor, Minority Rights Group -Greece, Norway, Conference of European Churches, International Raelian Religion, Moscow Patriarchate, Belarus, Russian Federation, France, Georgia, Turkey, Estonia, Bulgaria