News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE/ODIHR opens limited observation mission for Latvian early parliamentary elections
Publishing date: 26 August 2011
RIGA, 26 August 2011 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights today opened a limited election observation mission to monitor the 17 September early parliamentary elections in Latvia...
OSCE Centre supports political dialogue ahead of Kyrgyzstan's presidential election
Publishing date: 16 August 2011
BISHKEK, 16 August 2011 – The Chief of Kyrgyzstan’s Presidential Administration, Parliamentarians, senior government officials, political party leaders, experts, representatives of the civil society and international organizations met today in Bishkek to discuss ways to ensure fair, transparent and safe conduct of the Presidential election scheduled for 30 October 2011...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro regrets non-adoption of amendments to Election Law
Publishing date: 1 August 2011
PODGORICA, 1 August 2011 – The Acting Head of OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Waldemar Figaj, said today he regretted that the amendments to the Law on Election were again not adopted within the deadline of 31 July...
OSCE Presence supports Central Election Commission and State Police in administering re-run election
Publishing date: 28 July 2011
TIRANA, 28 July 2011 – The OSCE Presence in Albania loaned today satellite phones to the Albanian State Police and the Central Election Commission to support their work in remote rural areas during the local government elections to re-run on 31 July 2011...
ODIHR trains Egyptian NGOs on human rights, election observation
Publishing date: 27 July 2011
Fifteen civil society representatives from Egypt arrived in Warsaw on 26 July for a three-day training workshop on election monitoring and human rights organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in co-operation with the OSCE’s Lithuanian Chairmanship...
Finnish parliamentary elections professionally administered, conducted in full respect for fundamental freedom, ODIHR report says
Publishing date: 22 July 2011
Finland’s 17 April parliamentary elections were professionally administered and commanded high levels of confidence, ODIHR concluded in the final report on the electoral process published on 21 July 2011...
ODIHR deploys election expert team to follow new voting technologies in Norway
Publishing date: 27 June 2011
The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) deployed an election expert team to Norway on 27 June 2011 to follow a pilot project on new voting technologies (NVT) that was put in place for the forthcoming 12 September municipal elections...