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OSCE meeting addresses challenges and good practices on freedoms of peaceful assembly and association
VIENNA, 8 November – Governments should welcome new technologies as an important means to facilitate, protect and promote the fundamental rights to peaceful assembly and association, civil society participants said at the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting, which opened today in Vienna...
US elections highly competitive and professionally administered, steps needed to address specific concerns
WASHINGTON, 7 November 2012 – The general elections in the United States took place in a highly competitive and pluralistic environment, and were administered in a professional manner, but steps should be taken to address specific concerns, the observation mission deployed by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) concluded in a statement released today...
Good practices, challenges to freedom of assembly and association highlighted at civil society forum
Promoting the freedom of assembly and association, as well as the challenges faced in exercising this fundamental right, were the focus of a forum for civil society representatives organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Irish OSCE Chairmanship on 7 November 2012...
OSCE/ODIHR limited election observation mission to United States to hold press conference on Wednesday
WASHINGTON D.C., 6 November 2012 - The election observers sent by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) for the general elections in the United States will present their preliminary statement of findings and conclusions at a news conference on Wednesday, 7 November, in Washington D.C....
Role of education in promoting respect for diversity highlighted at Paris meeting
Education is a powerful tool in promoting tolerance and mutual understanding, representatives of education ministries and institutions said at a meeting organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), UNESCO and the Council of Europe in Paris on 5 November 2012...
OSCE/ODIHR Forum in Almaty promotes further reforms to criminal justice systems in Central Asia
More than 100 policymakers, academics, legal professionals and civil society representatives from across Central Asia highlighted recent reform initiatives, current challenges and the way forward in the region’s criminal justice sector at a two-and-a-half day forum that ended in Almaty on 31 October 2012... ()
Ukrainian elections marred by lack of level playing field, say international observers
KYIV, 29 October 2012 – Ukraine’s parliamentary elections were characterized by a tilted playing field, the international observers concluded in a statement released today. This was the result, primarily, of the abuse of administrative resources, as well as a lack of transparency in campaign and party financing and of balanced media coverage...
Czech government must do more to end marginalization and segregation of Roma children in schools, concludes ODIHR report
The Czech government needs to do more to overcome the marginalization and segregation in schools of children from Roma and Sinti communities, concludes a field assessment visit report published by the OSCE/ODIHR on 26 October 2012...
International election observers in Ukraine to hold press conference on Monday
KYIV, 26 October 2012 – The international observers monitoring the parliamentary elections in Ukraine will present their preliminary post-election statement at a news conference on Monday, 29 October, in Kyiv...
Threat of criminal prosecution of observers at odds with established co-operation on United States elections, ODIHR Director says
WARSAW, 24 October 2012 – Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), expressed his grave concern over the threat of criminal prosecution of OSCE/ODIHR election observers...