DEMOCRATIZATION Members of the ODIHR Panel on Freedom of Assembly meet in Warsaw. Left to right: David Golderberger, Yevgeniy Zhovtis, Vardan Poghosyan, Muatar Khaidarova. (OSCE/Agnieszka Rembowska) and Advisory Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief. ODIHR, jointly with the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission and with the assistance of the expert groups, continued work on revising the Guidelines for the Review of Legislation Pertaining to Religion or Belief (2004), the Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly (2010, 2nd edition), and the Guidelines on Political Party Regulation (2010). In March, the Venice Commission also officially invited ODIHR to join the process of drafting Joint Guidelines on Freedom of Association to be finalized in 2014. ODIHR organized annual meetings in Warsaw for the Panel of Experts on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and the Core Group of Experts on Political Parties to discuss relevant legislative developments in the OSCE region and incorporate their feedback in the processes of revising the relevant ODIHR-Venice Commission guidelines. Access to Law To enhance access of legislators and other stakeholders in OSCE participating States to legislation on human dimension issues in the OSCE region, in 2002 ODIHR created the online legislative database www.legislationline.org. The database is one of the biggest on-line, free-of-charge platforms providing direct access to human rights legislation in the OSCE region. It contains more than 9,000 documents, in particular, national and international 30  /   ODIHR Annual Report 2013

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