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ODIHR Legal Reviews, Assessments
Variety of useful resources and tools prepared by ODIHR to support legal reform in OSCE participating States. It includes legal reviews of draft and exisiting national legislation and assessments of legislative process.
Opinions
The Urgent Opinion concludes that the new Law, while establishing modalities for enhancing communication between the police and organizers, falls short of fulfilling the state's obligation to protect and facilitate the right to peaceful assembly. In particular, the Law contains overly broad wording of certain provisions, which may compromise legal certainty and open the door to arbitrary or disproportionate restrictions on the exercise of this right, especially those related to the responsibilities of an “organizer” which risk placing undue burdens on individuals. Furthermore, the broadly worded and vague grounds for imposing restrictions or for allowing dispersal of an assembly, which should always be a measure of last resort, fail to comply with the strict requirements of legality, legitimacy and/or proportionality under international human rights standards. The sanctions envisaged in the Law in case of violation are disproportionate, so should be removed or reconsidered entirely since disproportionate penalties alone violate the right to freedom of peaceful assembly, as they may deter such events and have a chilling effect on the exercise of this right.
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Legislation
Constitution
Variety of useful resources and tools prepared by ODIHR to support legal reform in OSCE participating States. It includes legal reviews of draft and exisiting national legislation and assessments of legislative process.
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Legislation
Criminal codes
National legislative acts on a range of human dimension issues. It offers access to full-text documents, as well as summaries of and excerpts from national constitutions, primary and secondary legislation and case-law from across the OSCE region.
Legislation
Primary and Secondary
National legislative acts on a range of human dimension issues. It offers access to full-text documents, as well as summaries of and excerpts from national constitutions, primary and secondary legislation and case-law from across the OSCE region.
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International standards
National legislative acts on a range of human dimension issues. It offers access to full-text documents, as well as summaries of and excerpts from national constitutions, primary and secondary legislation and case-law from across the OSCE region.
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Case-law
Case law subline. Status of Ratification of the Main International Human Rights Treaties, Conventions and other instruments. International Case-law for selected topics.
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