Legislative Support
Fund/Programme/Project
Region/Country
Included work on:
Legislative Review Fund
OSCE Region
· Legal analyses of twelve pieces of legislation, including on
countering extremism and terrorism (Moldova, Uzbekistan), equality
before the law (Armenia), judicial reform (Moldova, Mongolia) and
Assembly (Republika Srpska), National Human Rights Institutions
(Slovakia), as well as the preparation of a comparative note on antidiscrimination legislation);
· Finalization and adoption of the ODIHR-Venice Commission
Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly (3rd edition);
· A meeting organized by the United Nations Human Rights
Committee to discuss, inter alia, ODIHR’s written submission as
part of the drafting of UNHRC’s General Comment on Article 21
(Freedom of Assembly);
· Support and maintenance of co-operation with the ODIHR Panel
of Experts on Freedom of Assembly and Association and the Core
Group of Experts on Political Parties;
· Improvement of the search function of Legislationline.org, ODIHR’s
online legislative database;
· Producing factsheets on requesting legislative assistance from
ODIHR;
· Participation in various meetings and lectures, including on The
Shrinking of Legal Space for Civil Society in the European Union
in Exeter, United Kingdom, The Crisis of Political Parties and
Representative Democracy in Tbilisi and transparency in the
parliament and co-operation with civil society on law making in
Nur-Sultan.
Strengthening Inclusive and
Accountable Democratic
Institutions in the OSCE Region
OSCE Region
· Legal analyses of legislation, including on judicial reform (Georgia,
Mongolia, Poland), public participation of persons with disabilities
(Poland) and a gender and diversity assessment of the Parliament’s
Rules of Procedure (North Macedonia);
· Preparation for and formation of the ODIHR ad hoc Expert Group on
Democratic Law-Making and first meeting of the Expert Group in
Venice, Italy;
· Assessment of the law-making process of Uzbekistan, including an
assessment visit and a follow-up visit to Tashkent;
· Assessment visit to Armenia to discuss democratic law-making and
judicial reform;
· Follow-up visit to Tbilisi to present legal analysis on the appointment
of Supreme Court judges;
· Official visit of a delegation of the Senate and the Legislative
Chamber of Uzbekistan to the Parliament of the Federal Republic of
Germany;
· Promotion and technical maintenance of www.legislationline.org;
· Participation in the 40th annual meeting of European Co-ordination
Committee on Human Rights Documentation (ECCHRD) in Vienna,
Austria.
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