Issue
Special Measures
Election Parts
Criteria
- Voter education materials were available in all official languages as well as minority languages
- Special measures were taken to ensure de facto equality for people with disabilities
- The electoral management body included women
- Special measures were taken, as necessary, to promote equality for minorities
- The state took steps to ensure de facto equality between men and women
Summaries
- Voter education should be accessible to all voters, including those with special needs.
- Where linguistic minorities exist, those that belong to such minorities should not be denied the right to use their own language.
- Special measures for advancing women where they have suffered past discrimination may include quotas to ensure participation or representation.
- Election management bodies should ensure that women and marginalized groups participate in the electoral process.
- The election management body should include women.
- Measures to encourage the representation of persons with disabilities in elected bodies may include voluntary or binding quotas.
- Information and materials about voting should be available in minority languages.
- Discrimination includes any distinction, exclusion, restriction, or preference on the basis of sex.
- Women should enjoy equality with men before the law.
- Electoral system design should take into account the needs and facilitate participation and representation of vulnerable groups, including of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.
- Some measures taken to ensure equitable representation of minority groups should not be considered discriminatory.
- Discrimination means any distinction, exclusion, restriction, or preference on the basis of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, or national or social origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
- Redistricting should not discriminate against any citizen on the basis of sex.
- Measures should be taken to ensure that women understand their right to vote.
- Measures should be taken to ensure that persons with disabilities have adequate access to civil and voter education.
- The voter registration system should be carefully tailored to ensure that cultural factors affecting women (name changes with marriage) do not result in disenfranchisement.
- Discrimination must not be practiced based on sex.
- Discrimination must not be practiced based on race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity and expression, migrant, refugee, repatriate, stateless or internally displaced status, genetic trait, mental or physical health condition, including infectious contagious condition and debilitating psychological condition, or other status at any time.
- Measures to promote participation by persons with disabilities may include financial incentives to political parties.
- Special measures for advancing ethnic minorities or groups that have suffered past discrimination should be taken when circumstances warrant, but should not be maintained after the objectives for which they were taken are met, and should not result in the maintenance of unequal rights for different groups.
- Women and girls with disabilities are subject to multiple discrimination.
- Measures to promote the participation and representation of women could include gender-targeted public funding of political parties.
- Temporary measures to achieve de facto equality for women may include the use of quotas to ensure their participation or representation.
- The state must perform both its "negative duty" to refrain from discrimination and its "positive duty" to prevent discrimination.
- Specific measures aimed at ensuring de facto equality for persons with disabilities should not be considered discriminatory.
- Temporary special measures to achieve de facto equality for women can include financially assisting and training women candidates, amending electoral procedures, developing campaigns directed at equal participation, and targeting women for appointment to public positions, or the use of quotas.
- Distinctions made on the basis of disabilities are to be considered discrimination.
- All are equal before the law, and laws should be equally enforced.
- Access to the media should be guaranteed to all political parties and candidates and be fairly distributed.
- Measures to support participation by persons with disabilities should be developped in consultation with the civil society, including disabled persons organizations.
- The state must perform both its "negative duty" to refrain from discrimination against women and its "positive duty" to prevent discrimination against women.
- Special measures to ensure participation and representation of national minorities may include reduced or waived minimum support, deposit, and electoral threshold requirements, and quotas.
- States should take special, temporary measures to achieve de facto equality for women.
- Political parties could support the participation of persons with disabilities by involving them as members, nominating on electable positions on candidate lists, targetted financial support, and making campaign events and programmes accessible.