Legal Opinions and Comments

In this Urgent Opinion, ODIHR makes recommendations to ensure the compliance of the new Law on Public Gatherings and Parades of Cyprus, adopted in July 2025, with international human rights standards and OSCE human dimension commitments.

This Note primarily addresses the topic of the suspension of limitation periods for criminal acts and disciplinary offenses that may have been committed by judges and prosecutors – or carried out at their direction – that may not have been pursued due to “political reasons”.

In this document, ODIHR makes recommendations on how to further enhance the Draft Code on the Organization and Functioning of the Parliament of Moldova (Regarding the Procedure for Declaring a State of Emergency, Siege or War, Chapter V).