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OSCE Second Conference on Anti-Semitism, Berlin 28-29 April 2004

Local and international non-governmental organizations request President Nursultan Nazarbayev to clarify his instructions to the Government regarding NGO law.

1381st Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Working Session 3: Combating intolerance and discrimination and promoting mutual respect and understanding- implementation of commitments (continued), Human Dimension Implementation Meeting Warsaw, 24 September- 5 October 2007

Working Session 3: Addressing factors contributing to the cycle of trafficking in persons, Human Dimension Implementation Meeting Warsaw, 2-13 October 2006

Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad's letter to the President of the National Assembly, Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Parliamentary Board of Culture and Information, Deputy Minister of Culture and Secretary General of the Office of the President of Serbia.

Translated Law on the Protector of Citizens, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia No. 79/2005, 16 September 2005.

Memorandum on the draft law of the Republic of Kazakhstan on mass media by Article 19- Global Campaign for Free Expression

These comments on the legal framework of elections in Croatia are primarily based on the Law on Elections of Representatives to the Croatian Parliament (the 2003 Election Law), adopted in April 2003, by amendments to the former parliamentary election law from 1999. The amendments were necessitated in large part by the constitutional changes in Croatia in 2001, which included the dissolution of the upper chamber (the House of Counties) of the former State Parliament, as well as the enactment of the Constitutional Law on National Minorities. However, the amendments also addressed other issues, including those, which arose during the previous elections to the former House of Representatives (now Parliament), which were held under the 1999 Election Law. These issues included some raised by the OSCE/ODIHR as a result of its observations of the 2000 election.

This document provides an analysis of the Law on Elections of People’s Deputies of Ukraine adopted by the Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) on 18 October 2001 and signed by President Kuchma on 30 October. On 30 October, the President issued Decree No. 1022/2001 “On Securing Implementation of Citizens’ Rights, Principles of Democratic Society, Openness and Transparency of the 2002 Election Process”. The Decree contains a series of instructions to the central executive bodies and local state administrations. This Decree, when properly implemented, will increase the transparency of the elections. Though part of the legislation under which the elections will be conducted, this report does not review the presidential Decree. The present analysis is based on an English-language translation whose accuracy has not been verified. Therefore, some of the comments in the report may flow from problems in the translation rather than the original text.