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
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