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Croatia parliamentary elections 2020: ODIHR Election Assessment Mission Final Report

Publishing date: 29 September 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: Chairmanship sources, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
ODIHR final report on 2020 Croatia parliamentary elections This year’s parliamentary elections in Croatia were professionally managed, competitive and pluralistic despite challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. These are some of the main conclusions from the final report on the 5 July 2020

OSCE Annual Police Experts Meeting: Good relations between police and media can raise public confidence, help solve crimes, keep communities safe

Publishing date: 28 September 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Media freedom and development, Policing
VIENNA, 28 September 2020 – A healthy relationship between the police and the media can increase public confidence in law enforcement, help solve crimes and ultimately keep communities safe, said opening speakers of the 2020 OSCE Annual Police Experts Meeting (APEM), held in Vienna and online today...

Progress and challenges over three decades of safeguarding democracy and human rights: OSCE webinar series begins today

Publishing date: 28 September 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development, National minority issues
WARSAW/VIENNA, 28 September 2020 – The increasing challenges to the rights and freedoms at the heart of the OSCE commitments to human rights and democracy made 30 years ago, as well as the need for a greater understanding that only a dialogue based on mutual respect will enable us to overcome our common challenges, form the backdrop for a month-long series of webinars beginning today...

Election observers to the US general election to hold press conference on Tuesday

Publishing date: 28 September 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WASHINGTON DC, 28 September 2020 – Observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will hold a press conference on the opening of the observation mission to the US general elections on Tuesday, 29 September.

ODIHR opens election observation mission in Georgia

Publishing date: 25 September 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
TBILISI, 25 September 2020 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened an election observation mission (EOM) for the 31 October parliamentary elections in Georgia, following an invitation from the Georgian authorities

Head of OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina concludes visit to Mostar and Stolac

Publishing date: 24 September 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections, Tolerance and non-discrimination
Kathleen Kavalec, Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) concluded her two-day visit to Mostar and Stolac on 24 September 2020. Over the course of the visit, she discussed preparations for local elections, to be held later in the autumn, as well as the Mission’s continuous support in promoting inter-religious dialogue in the country...

OSCE organizes online seminar for judges on freedom of expression and judicial regulation of defamation cases in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 24 September 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
An OSCE-supported seminar on the protection of freedom of expression and the judicial regulation of defamation took place on 24 September 2020 in Nur-Sultan. The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan co-organized the event with the Supreme Court, NGO Legal Media Centre, Internews Kazakhstan and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)...