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Trafficking Task Force Meeting, Vienna. Address by Ambassador Gérard Stoudmann, Director of the ODIHR
Publishing date: 27 March 2001
Content type: Statement / speech
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Speech by Amb. Gérard Stoudmann
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Local Elections, First Round, 10 September 2000: Preliminary Statement
Publishing date: 11 September 2000
Collections: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Content type: Report
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
ODIHR Workshop on Roma Political Participation, Prague, 30 November- 1 December 2000
Publishing date: 30 November 2000
Content type: Conference / meeting document
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Roma and Sinti
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Guidelines and agenda
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Serbia: Assessment of the Election Legislation
Publishing date: 30 August 2000
Content type: Report
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This report provides a brief assessment of the election legislation governing the forthcoming local and federal elections in Serbia and the FRY. It seeks to identify conflicts between the content of the legislation and best practice, appropriate international standards and OSCE commitments. It focuses on those particular areas of the legislation which may raise the risk of fraud or malpractice. The laws reviewed are those relating to presidential elections, elections of deputies to the Chamber of Citizens (the lower chamber of the federal parliament), elections of deputies to the Chamber of Republics (the upper chamber in the federal parliament) and elections of members of municipal assemblies in Serbia. The presidential election law was adopted on 24 July 2000 following amendments to the Constitution which allow for the direct election of the federal president. The president was previously elected by parliament, the Federal Assembly. The review of the Law on elections to the lower chamber takes into account the amendments introduced into that Law in July 2000.
Review of the Law on Parliamentary Elections in the Republic of Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 22 August 2000
Content type: Report
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Since 1998, the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has been assisting the authorities of Azerbaijan to develop election legislation in line with OSCE commitments. In particular, in the course of 2000 the ODIHR provided assistance for the drafting of the Law on the Central Election Commission and the Law on Parliamentary Elections (the Law). On 30 May 2000, the ODIHR submitted to the authorities and representatives of political parties Preliminary Comments on the Law on Parliamentary Elections of the Republic of Azerbaijan (the Preliminary Comments), based on a draft Law provided by the authorities of Azerbaijan. Further discussions were subsequently held between the ODIHR experts and relevant authorities to clarify a number of the provisions contained in the draft Law. The following are Final Comments based on an unofficial translation of the Law, provided by the International Foundation for Election System. This document supplements the Preliminary Comments and is intended to be read in conjunction with that report. It provides comments on the final text as enacted on 5 July 2000 and amended on 21 July. The analysis emphasises some of the major areas of concern with the law and contains a number of recommendations for amendments and clarifications to improve the election legislation, in line with international standards and, in particular, the OSCE commitments formulated in the 1990 Copenhagen Document on the Human Dimension.
Montenegro, Municipal Elections, 11 June 2000: Final Report
Publishing date: 18 August 2000
Content type: Report
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Trafficking in Human Beings, 19 June 2000: Final Report
Publishing date: 30 July 2000
Content type: Report
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Consolidated Summary of the 2000 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
Publishing date: 27 October 2000
Content type: Conference / meeting document
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The OSCE Implementation Meeting on Human Dimension Issues took place on 17-27 October 2000 in Warsaw.
OSCE/ODIHR Assessment of the Electoral Code of the Republic of Belarus and of the Position of the Government of Belarus on the Electoral Code as Stated by the Central Election Commission of Belarus
Publishing date: 25 July 2000
Content type: Report
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This assessment comments on the Electoral Code of the Republic of Belarus (“the Electoral Code”), including the position of the Government of Belarus, as stated by the Central Election Commission in written comments dated 22 June 2000.
NGOs in the Caucasus and Central Asia: Development and Co-operation with the OSCE. OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting background paper
Publishing date: 17 October 2000
Content type: Conference / meeting document
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
OSCE ODIHR background paper