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 30 ODIHR Annual Report 2012 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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