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Election Obligations & Standards Database

Issue

Freedom From Discrimination and the Electoral Management Body


Election Parts

  • Election Management

Criteria

  • The electoral management body treated all citizens equally
Summaries
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Distinctions made on the basis of disabilities are to be considered discrimination.
  • Distinctions made on the basis of sexual orientation are to be considered discrimination.
  • The state must perform both its "negative duty" to refrain from discrimination and its "positive duty" to prevent discrimination.
  • All are equal before the law, and laws should be equally enforced.
  • Election management bodies should be impartial and should not discriminate in the performance of their public function.
  • Discrimination must not be practiced based on sex.
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Election Obligations & Standards Database

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