News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Ukraine’s draft parliamentary election law can be made fairer, say ODIHR and the Venice Commission
Publishing date: 21 October 2011
Ukraine’s draft law on parliamentary elections could go further to ensure fully democratic elections, says a joint opinion by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission...
ODIHR trains election observers from Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia
Publishing date: 13 October 2011
Fourteen representatives from civil society and domestic non-partisan election observation organizations from Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia are participating in a four-day training event on good practices in election observation organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)...
OSCE/ODIHR opens mission to assess federal elections in Switzerland
Publishing date: 10 October 2011
BERN, 10 October 2011 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened an election assessment mission for the federal elections to be held in Switzerland on 23 October...
OSCE Centre hosts donor co-ordination meeting on assistance to Kyrgyzstan ahead of elections
Publishing date: 7 October 2011
On 7 October 2011 the OSCE Centre in Bishkek hosted a meeting on co-ordinating donor electoral assistance ahead of Kyrgyzstan's presidential election scheduled for 30 October...
Election observation must be impartial and non-politicized to be credible, ODIHR Director says at high-level discussion
Publishing date: 5 October 2011
For international election observation to be credible and effective, it must be impartial and non-politicized, Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said at a high-level panel discussion...
OSCE/ODIHR begins observation of presidential and municipal elections in Bulgaria
Publishing date: 28 September 2011
SOFIA, 28 September 2011 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened a limited observation mission to monitor the 23 October presidential and municipal elections in Bulgaria...
OSCE/ODIHR opens mission to assess parliamentary elections in Poland
Publishing date: 27 September 2011
WARSAW, 27 September 2011 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened an election assessment mission for the parliamentary elections to be held in Poland on 9 October...