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Prepared by Dr. Katrin Nyman-Metcalf, Professor and Head of the Chair of Law and Technology, Tallinn Law School, Tallinn University of Technology.

Prepared by Boyko Boev, Senior Legal Officer at ARTICLE 19 and commissioned by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, September 2012.

Speech by Conny Rijken (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) on "Cooperation to complement the criminal justice response" at the 11th High-level Alliance against Trafficking in Persons conference "Preventing Trafficking in Human Beings for Labour Exploitation: Decent Work and Social Justice", Vienna, 21 June 2011

1349th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

This assessment reviews and comments on the “Act No.247/1995 of September 27, 1995 on Elections to the Parliament of the Czech Republic and on the Amendment of Certain other Laws”, in the version provided by the OSCE ODIHR. The assessment is based on a reading and analysis of English translations of the mentioned law and the Czech constitution. This analysis was prepared by Michael Meyer, legal expert. It should be noted that any legal review based on translated laws may be affected by issues of interpretation resulting from translation. This does not imply that the translations used are defective in any way, but simply that translation from one language to another occurs in the context of the different semantic rules of the two languages.

1494th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Russian Federation (Annex). The Russian Federation’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine. Report by the Acting Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, Ms. Tatiana Turcan. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1509 on the dates and agenda of the 2025 Economic and Environmental Dimension Implementation Meeting. Increasing military involvement of certain NATO and EU member States in yet more confrontation in and around Ukraine. The latest reforms and developments in the Republic of Moldova. Sixtieth anniversary of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Threats associated with the irregular migration of people across the OSCE region. Invocation of the Moscow Mechanism to address the ill treatment of prisoners of war by the Russian Federation amidst human rights violations and humanitarian impacts of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine (United Kingdom, also behalf of Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, Annex 2; Ukraine, Annex 3).