WHDC Side Event: Implementing Electoral Recommendations: How to Improve the Follow-up Framework for OSCE Participating States
Panel Recap: Electoral Reform – Turning Recommendations into Action On October 1, EPDE hosted a side event at the Warsaw 2024 Human Dimension Conference on improving the framework of the implementation of electoral reform recommendations in the OSCE region. The conversation centered on the pivotal role that election observation missions play in strengthening electoral integrity […]
Webinar: Overview of the Electoral Campaign in Moldova: Civic Observation and Media Reporting
We kindly invite you to the second pre-election briefing, hosted by the EPDE in partnership with Promo-LEX Association on political and legal framework guiding presidential elections and constitutional referendum on EU integration in Moldova. The second in a series of EPDE webinars in anticipation of Moldova’s election will offer a comprehensive look at the electoral […]
Promo-LEX released the second report of the Observation Mission for the election on 20 October
The Promo-LEX Observation Mission for the Presidential Elections and the Republican Constitutional Referendum released today its second monitoring report covering the period 20 August – 17 September. The report mainly reflects the process of nominating and registering electoral competitors, the legal framework relevant to this process, the performance of electoral competitors, as well as the […]
GYLA and ISFED consider the decision of the Anti-Corruption Bureau to be unlawful
The Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) and the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) express their views on the Anti-Corruption Bureau’s decision made on September 24 to declare Transparency International Georgia and its Executive Director, Eka Gigauri, as well as the organization Choose Europe, its director Khatuna Lagazidze and co-founders, as entities with […]
Statement: Azerbaijan 2024 parliamentary “elections”: No domestic observation possible
On September 1, 2024, Azerbaijan held snap parliamentary elections under heavily restricted conditions, with fundamental freedoms such as expression, assembly, association, and information severely curtailed. The Aliyev regime escalated repression, preventing independent media coverage and citizen election monitoring. Anar Mammadli, leader of a prominent election observation NGO and a Václav Havel Human Rights Prize laureate, […]
Webinar: Political and Legal Framework Guiding Presidential Elections and Constitutional Referendum on EU Integration in Moldova
Pre-election briefing hosted in partnership with Promo-LEX Association on political and legal framework guiding presidential elections and constitutional referendum on EU integration in Moldova. This online event presents the political and legal framework for these elections, including an in-depth overview of the acts of law governing them and the referendum provided by the representatives of […]
Webinar: Joint Lessons from the 2024 European Parliament Elections
Now that the European Elections 2024 are behind us, it is time to explore the lessons learned! Join the SEEEDS webinar on 24 September 2024, 04:00 PM CET, where we discuss the findings of the Election-Watch.EU Election Assessment Mission (EAM) to the 2024 European Parliament Elections. AGENDA 16:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks by Roy Virah-Sawmy, […]
European Civil Society Call Upon New Secretary General of Council of Europe to Prioritise Human Rights in Azerbaijan
A wide group of European civil society organisations wrote to Alain Berset, new Secretary General of the Council of Europe, on his first day in office, calling upon him to prioritise the human rights crisis in Azerbaijan, marked by the detention of Vaclav Havel Award winner Anar Mammadli alongside over 300 other political prisoners. Alain […]
Four years after Marfa Rabkova’s arbitrary detention, repression against Viasna members must end
Four years ago, on September 17, 2020, Viasna member Marfa Rabkova was arbitrarily detained. To this day, she remains unlawfully imprisoned. On the fourth anniversary of her detention, the Observatory for the protection of human rights defenders (FIDH-OMCT) and Viasna reiterate their call for her immediate and unconditional release, as well as the release of the other […]
Call to PACE Bureau to prioritise release of Anar Mammadli
In a context of a notable intensification of repression occurring in Azerbaijan in the aftermath of the presidential election on 7 February 2024 and the parliamentary election on 1 September 2024, we call upon PACE to prioritise the release of Anar Mammadli ahead of COP29. In their letter to the Bureau members of the Parliamentary Assembly of […]