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It is based in Warsaw, Poland, and is active throughout the OSCE area in the fields of election observation, democratic development, human rights, tolerance and non-discrimination, rule of law, and Roma and Sinti issues. The ODIHR has observed over 300 elections and referendums since 1995, sending more than 50,000 observers.
Election monitoring involves the observation of an election by one or more independent parties, typically from another country or from a non-governmental organization (NGO). The monitoring parties aim primarily to assess the conduct of an election process on the basis of national legislation and of international election standards .
The last elections in January 2008 resulted in the re-election of Mikheil Saakashvili for his second and final presidential term. [1] Saakashvili was constitutionally barred from running for a third consecutive term. The elections were held under a two-round system. Giorgi Margvelashvili was elected with a majority of votes in the first round ...
More than 300,000 voters in Georgia cast ballots on the first day of early voting in the state, breaking a state record. Georgia sets record after over 300,000 vote early ahead of high-stakes ...
Strengthening the OSCE’s conflict prevention and resolution capabilities. Promoting implementation of OSCE commitments in all three dimensions: the politico-military dimension, the economic and environmental dimension, the human dimension. Supporting democracy, rule of law and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Belarusian authorities on Monday said they will not invite observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to monitor the country's parliamentary and local elections ...
On January 10, however, a representative of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights mission in Georgia, Rasto Kuzel, declared that the OSCE had not changed its positive evaluation of the January 5 presidential election. The OSCE Office explained: "Mr. Boden's published statements do not quite reflect what he really said ...
During the United States elections, 2012—following media reports that tied ODIHR international electoral observers to the United Nations and accused them of having plans to interfere in the election—the observers, who said they were in the United States to review several benchmarks of democratic elections, were blocked from polls in nine of the 50 states—Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Iowa ...