CSCE Office for Free Elections

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The CSCE Office for Free Elections was an institution within the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe tasked with promoting and supporting democratic electoral processes and standards across participating states.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf electoral assistance body
international organization office
abbreviationOf CSCE Office for Free Elections self-linksurface differs
surface form: Office for Free Elections of the CSCE
appliesToJurisdiction CSCE participating states
countryOfHeadquarters Austria
dissolutionReason institutional upgrade and renaming to ODIHR
dissolvedOrAbolished 1992
fieldOfWork democratization
election monitoring
electoral standards
human rights
follows CSCE commitments on human rights and democracy
Helsinki Final Act principles
hasConstituency governments of CSCE participating states
hasDomain civil and political liberties
electoral law
political rights
hasHistoricalRole precursor of OSCE election observation structures
hasLegalBasis CSCE Secretariat
surface form: CSCE Summit decisions of 1990
hasMainTask development of common election standards among CSCE participating states
facilitation of election observation activities
promotion of democratic electoral processes
support for free and fair elections
hasMethod organizing seminars and expert meetings on elections
providing technical assistance on electoral legislation
sending election observation missions
hasObjective enhancing transparency of electoral processes
strengthening multi-party elections
supporting implementation of CSCE election-related commitments
hasTypeOfJurisdiction intergovernmental
hasWorkLanguage English
French
German
Russian
headquartersLocation Vienna
inception 1990
isPartOf CSCE human dimension institutions
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Vienna
locatedInTimeZone Central European Time
namedAfter principle of free elections in CSCE commitments
operatedBy Secretariat of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe
surface form: Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe
operatingArea Europe
North America
Soviet Union
surface form: former Soviet Union
parentOrganization CSCE Secretariat
partOf Secretariat of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe
surface form: Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe
replacedBy Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
surface form: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
successor Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
surface form: OSCE ODIHR

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Charter of Paris for a New Europe establishes CSCE Office for Free Elections
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights precededBy CSCE Office for Free Elections
this entity surface form: Office for Free Elections
Paris Charter establishesBody CSCE Office for Free Elections
CSCE Office for Free Elections abbreviationOf CSCE Office for Free Elections self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Office for Free Elections of the CSCE