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Middle East and North Africa Report
Arab States, Conflict, Electoral Systems, Human Rights, Justice, Report, Academic/Think TankThe Syrian regime is losing ground to armed rebels, while the exiled opposition is in chaos Information coming from Syria points to the accelerating erosion of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. While the possible repercussions of the massacre perpetrated in Houla on May 25th remain unclear, the regime hasmore and more reason to be nervous. The “poison operation” conducted against top security figures on...
The Arab Quota Report: Selected Case Studies
Arab States, Electoral Systems, Governance and Gender, Civil SocietyThe Arab Quota Report: Selected Case Studies The level of political representation of women in different legislative bodies around the world varies greatly, standing at 16.9 percent in the world’s legislatures in 2006 on average. The uneven political playing field on which women and men compete has led to a number of reforms—primarily quotas or other positive action strategies—designed to...
Final Report on the Presidential and Provincial Council elections in Afghanistan - 2009
Arab States, Democracy, Electoral Systems, Report, Inter-Governmental OrganizationFollowing an invitation from the Afghan government, the OSCE Permanent Council mandated the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) to deploy an Election Support Team (EST) to the 2009 Afghan presidential and provincial council elections “to support government and international efforts” and “to produce a report on the electoral process......
The frameworks for elections in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority and Syria
Arab States, Electoral Systems, Report, Civil SocietyIt is generally assumed that elections in the Southern Mediterranean largely lack credibility, being managed events used by political elites to gain political legitimacy with as little challenge to the status quo as possible. While these assumptions are not entirely wrong, they simplify a more complex situation to the extent of obscuring it. This study addresses the above assumption...