Democratization
Borys Tarasyuk, the Head of the Committee on European Integration of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Marcin Walecki, the Chief
of ODIHR’s Democratic Governance Unit, and Maria Rauch-Kallat, the former Minister of Health and Women of Austria, listen as
Rusudan Kervalishvili, the Deputy Chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia, (l-r) speaks at an event on promoting women’s political
participation in Ukraine, Kyiv, 31 May 2012. (OSCE/Ajla van Heel)
Each set of guidelines is drafted
through an extensive consultative
process involving expert discussions
and thematic roundtables with key
stakeholders from a wide array of
OSCE participating States. In 2012,
ODIHR continued work on revising the Guidelines for the Review
of Legislation Pertaining to Religion
or Belief and, along with its Panel
of Experts on Freedom of Peaceful
Assembly, similarly decided to start
revising the Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, starting
in 2013, to take stock of significant new developments in the area.
ODIHR also agreed with the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission
to draft a new set of Guidelines on
Freedom of Association in 2013.
Access to Law
To enhance access of legislators
and other stakeholders in OSCE
participating States to legislation
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on human dimension issues in
the OSCE region and to relevant
international instruments and documents, ODIHR has created an
online legislative database:
www.legislationline.org. This database provides direct, free-of-charge
access to laws, good practices and
precedents from other jurisdictions. Its thematic structure ensures
easy access to an online compilation of international standards and
domestic laws from OSCE participating States related to the OSCE’s
human dimension. The website has
interfaces in English and Russian,
but collects legislation in all official
OSCE languages. The site also contains all ODIHR reviews on draft
and existing legislation, as well as
all legislative assessments of lawmaking processes.
In 2012, almost all themes outlined on legislationline.org were
extensively revised and updated.
Moreover, in the process of reorganizing the website, comments from
users were collected, and this feedback will be used in the process
of revamping legislationline.org in
2013.
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