Session 5: New Tools for Election Observation – presentations from endorsers This session was a chance for DoP endorsing organizations share with the wider DoP community new tools that they have been developing to improve their observation work. The following…

Session 2: Improving Public Understanding of our Observation Work and Communicating Complicated Messages To kick off the session, participants were addressed though video clips by BBC World journalist Alan Kasujja, Commonwealth Director of Communications and former CNN journalist Satinder Bindra,…

On the sidelines of the meeting, participants were given the opportunity to learn more about the history of Gdansk and its special connection to the democratic change that spread across Central and Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and 1990s.…

20 November 2024 Former Polish President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęnsa opened the annual implementation meeting of the Declaration of Principles (DoP) on International Election Observation with an impassioned keynote address from the very same hall in which…

As election observers become increasingly subject to obstruction and intimidation, OAS has leveraged the DoP community to lobby for better political and legal protection for observers. When election observers describe their work, they don’t see it as a passive activity;…

It’s the question journalists most often ask about an election: was it free and fair? The phrase has been used for decades as a shorthand to say whether an election was generally good or bad. However, most election observers have…