News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE, EU donate equipment to improve voter registration
Publishing date: 29 March 2012
YEREVAN, 29 March 2012 – Thirty six computers and printers were given today to the Armenian police by the OSCE Office in Yerevan with EU financial support to help prepare for the forthcoming parliamentary and presidential elections...
OSCE supports Tirana meeting on election administration, new voting technologies
Publishing date: 27 March 2012
Reform of Albania’s election administration as well as international good practices in new voting technologies was the topic of an OSCE- supported meeting in Tirana on 26 and 27 March 2012...
OSCE/ODIHR opens mission to assess parliamentary elections in Armenia
Publishing date: 21 March 2012
YEREVAN, 22 March 2012 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened an election observation mission for the parliamentary elections to be held in Armenia on 6 May...
ODIHR Director encourages Kyrgyzstan’s authorities to further improve the conduct of elections to consolidate democratic development
Publishing date: 20 March 2012
BISHKEK, 20 March 2012– During a visit to Bishkek today on Tuesday, Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), encouraged Kyrgyzstan’s authorities to consolidate the country’s democratic achievements and further improve its framework for the holding of democratic elections...
OSCE to support Armenia’s Ombudsman’s Office ahead of elections
Publishing date: 15 March 2012
The Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Ambassador Andrey Sorokin, and Armenia’s Human Rights Defender Karen Andreasyan, launched today a European Union-funded project to enhance the capacities of the Human Rights Defender’s Office (HRDO) in advance of the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections in 2012 and 2013...
ODIHR offers assistance and expertise at Dushanbe event on electoral law, including voter lists
Publishing date: 14 March 2012
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights provided support and expertise to a roundtable in Dushanbe on 14 March on measures to develop effective links between population and voter registration in Tajikistan, as well as on reforms to the country’s legal electoral framework...
Norway’s internet voting pilot project held in an open manner but could have benefited from more formalized procedures, says ODIHR report
Publishing date: 6 March 2012
Norway’s internet voting project for the 12 September local government elections was conducted in an open manner, but the system could have benefited from more formalized procedures, says the final report of the ODIHR Election Expert Team...