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OSCE media freedom representative condemns arrests and assaults on journalists following Belarus election
Publishing date: 20 December 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Elections, Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 21 December 2010 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, today condemned detentions and assaults of Belarusian and international journalists in Minsk following the 19 December presidential election...
Final report on parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan stresses need for 'profound electoral reform'
Publishing date: 20 December 2010
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
In its final report on the 10 October parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan, published on 20 December, ODIHR concluded that: "[the] elections constituted a further consolidation of the democratic process. Political pluralism, a vibrant campaign and confidence in the Central Commission for Elections and Referenda... characterized the elections. The authorities displayed the political will tohold democratic elections in line with OSCE commitments. Nevertheless, there is an urgent need for profound electoral legal reform."
Belarus still has considerable way to go in meeting OSCE commitments, despite certain improvements, election observers say
Publishing date: 19 December 2010
Content type: Press release
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Elections
MINSK, 20 December 2010- Yesterday's presidential election showed that Belarus still has a considerable way to go in meeting its OSCE commitments, although some specific improvements were made, concluded the international observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA)...
Head of ODIHR election observation mission presents report at special European Parliament session on Belarus
Publishing date: 19 December 2010
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
Ambassador Geert-Hinrich Ahrens, the head of ODIHR's election observation mission for the presidential election in Belarus on 19 December 2010, presented the mission's preliminary findings during an extraordinary session of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee in Brussels on 12 January.
OSCE Mission to Serbia offers assistance to Bosniak National Minority Council election process
Publishing date: 13 December 2010
BELGRADE, 14 December 2010- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Dimitrios Kypreos, today offered the Mission's assistance to the upcoming Bosniak National Minority Council elections, which were announced earlier this week by the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights...
OSCE Mission to Serbia offers assistance to Bosniak National Minority Council election process
Publishing date: 13 December 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Human rights, Elections, National minority issues
BELGRADE, 14 December 2010 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Dimitrios Kypreos, today offered the Mission's assistance to the upcoming Bosniak National Minority Council elections, which were announced earlier this week by the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights...
Need for more transparency and pluralism stressed at OSCE/ODIHR meeting on electoral reform in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 7 December 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
DUSHANBE, 8 December 2010- Participants in a meeting on electoral reform organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in co-operation with the OSCE Office in Tajikistan today stressed the importance of increasing transparency and pluralism in Tajikistan...