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Quotes based on international documents, law, and treaties- "States must take effective measures to ensure that all persons entitled to vote are able to exercise that right. Where registration of voters is required it should be facilitated and obstacles to such registration should not be imposed. If residence requirements apply to registration, they must be reasonable, and should not be imposed in such a way as to exclude the homeless from the right to vote. Any abusive interference with registration or voting as well as intimidation or coercion of voters should be prohibited by penal laws and those laws should be strictly enforced. Voter education and registration campaigns are necessary to ensure the effective exercise of article 25 rights by an informed community."
- "Voter information and education activities are necessary to ensure that all eligible citizens are aware of their political rights, including their right to vote and to be registered to vote."
- "In particular, States should: ...Initiate of facilitate national programmes of civic education, to ensure that the population are familiar with election procedures and issues."
- "The cumulative effect of all voter education in an election should be evaluated by the degree to which pertinent information is reasonably available to all eligible voters in a form that they can comprehend, and in a timely fashion (i.e.. allowing a reasonable time for the audience to make use of the information."
- "Funding and administration should be provided for objective, non-partisan voter education and information campaigns."
- "Governments should prioritise the funding of civic and voter education by providing for it in the state budget prior to the elections."
- "Elections cannot be genuinely democratic unless voters understand the differences among the electoral contestants so that they can cast an informed vote. Voters must also know when, where and how to register to vote, as well as when where and how to vote."
- "States must take effective measures to ensure that all persons entitled to vote are able to exercise that right. Voter information is one necessary measure to ensure the effective exercise of the right to vote by an informed community."
- "Voters should also be informed about specific election procedures, including how to fill in their ballots, find the correct place of voting, or obtain information on alternative methods of voting."
- "[Voter education] should be provided to all eligible voters, and special efforts should be made to target traditionally disaffected segments of the population."
- "...[I]nformation should be made available to all eligible voters including traditionally disenfranchised segments of the population (e.g. minorities)."
- "Monitoring voter-education and public information campaigns will also provide useful knowledge about the level of information that is made available to national minorities, whether this information is provided in minority languages and whether it includes any element of bias."
- "Voter education…should inform voters of when, how and where to register to vote and when, how and where to cast their votes."
- "Non-partisan civic education should aim to inform voters as to the ‘who, what, when, where and how’ of registration and voting."
- "An education program should “explain the registration procedure” and be “focused mainly on the voting procedure."
- "The cumulative effect of all voter education in an election should be evaluated by the degree to which pertinent information is reasonably available to all eligible voters in a form that they can comprehend, and in a timely fashion (i.e.. allowing a reasonable time for the audience to make use of the information...You should...attempt to assess whether this information adequately discusses essential facts, procedures, rights and issues."
- "Civil society capacity such as NGOs, Community Based Organisations (CBOs), faith based organisations (FBOs) and other institutions should harness and support civic and voter education to ensure effective distribution throughout the country...Political parties should provide their supporters with civic and voter education and information about the voting process which should be consistent with the voter education and information provided by the EMB."
- "The legal framework should also provide that citizen organizations are free to conduct voter education as long as it accurately describes the positions of electoral contestants and accurately describes voter registration and voting procedures."
- "The national election commission, certain government ministries, government-controlled media, the political parties and civic organizations typically assume responsibility for providing voter education"
- "The participating States consider that the presence of observers, both foreign and domestic, can enhance the electoral process for States in which elections are taking place."
- "Measures that should be identified, implemented and monitored for effectiveness include, under article 7, paragraph (a), those designed to: (b) Ensure that women understand their right to vote, the importance of this right and how to exercise it."
- "Where women are underrepresented on voter lists, observers should determine if election administrators, local authorities, community leaders, or NGOs are conducting any special programmes designed to reach out to women and to encourage and facilitate their participation."
- "With a view to realizing this right without discrimination and on the basis of equal opportunity, States Parties shall ensure an inclusive education system at all levels and lifelong learning directed to: Enabling persons with disabilities to participate effectively in a free society."
- "States Parties shall guarantee to persons with disabilities political rights and the opportunity to enjoy them on an equal basis with others, and shall undertake: Ensuring that voting procedures, facilities and materials are appropriate, accessible and easy to understand and use; Protecting the right of persons with disabilities to vote by secret ballot in elections and public referendums without intimidation, and to stand for elections."
- "Where appropriate, special attention should be devoted to the steps to be followed by disabled voters, for example, the blind, and disadvantaged voters, that is to say, illiterates."
- "Multimedia methods should be employed to provide effective civic education to people with various levels of literacy."
- "Voter education campaigns should extend throughout the territory of the country, including to rural and outlying areas."
- "Voter information should be accessible to all members of society, regardless of their language or level of literacy."
- "Freedom of expression, assembly and association are essential conditions for the effective exercise of the right to vote and must be fully protected. Positive measures should be taken to overcome specific difficulties, such as illiteracy, language barriers, poverty or impediments to freedom of movement which prevent persons entitled to vote from exercising their rights effectively. Information and materials about voting should be available in minority languages. Specific methods, such as photographs and symbols, should be adopted to ensure that illiterate voters have adequate information on which to base their choice. States parties should indicate in their reports the manner in which the difficulties highlighted in this paragraph are dealt with."
- "Monitoring voter education and public-information campaigns will also provide useful knowledge about the level of information that is made available to national minorities, whether this information is provided in minority languages, and whether it includes any element of bias."
- "Literature should be widely available and should be published in the various national languages to help ensure the meaningful participation of all eligible voters."
- "Particular note should be taken of the way in which illiterate people are informed about election procedures."
- "Voter education materials should be multimedia and multilingual, and culturally appropriate for various social groups."
- "No restrictions may be placed on the exercise of this right other than those which are prescribed by law and which are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security of public safety, public order (ordre public), the protection of public health or morals or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others."
- "In compliance with the fundamental obligations laid down in article 2 of this Convention, States Parties undertake to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, color, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of the following rights: (d) Other civil rights, in particular: (ix)The right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association."
- "1. State Parties recognize the rights of the child to freedom of association and to freedom of peaceful assembly. 2. No restrictions may be placed on the exercise of these rights other than those imposed in conformity with the law and which are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security or public safety, public order (ordre public), the protection of public health or morals or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others."
- "Every individual shall have the right to free association provided that he abides by the law."
- "Everyone has the right to associate freely for ideological, religious, political, economic, labor, social, cultural, sports, or other purposes"
- "Every citizen has the right: 5. To freely form and join associations with others. 6. To freedom of association and peaceful assembly. 7. No restrictions may be placed on the exercise of these rights other than those which are prescribed by law and which are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security or public safety, public health or morals or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others."
- "Everyone shall have the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association with others, including the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests."
- "Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association with others, including the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests."
- "Each contracting Party shall allow to migrant workers the right to organise for the protection of their economic and social interests on the conditions provided for by national legislation for its own nationals."
- "The Parties shall ensure respect for the right of every person belonging to a national minority to freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom of association, freedom of expression, and freedom of thought, conscience and religion."
- "Each Party undertakes, subject to the provisions of Article 9, to guarantee to foreign residents, on the same terms as to its own nationals: ...b. the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association with others, including the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of their interests. In particular, the right to freedom of association shall imply the right of foreign residents to form local associations of their own for purposes of mutual assistance, maintenance and expression of their cultural identity or defence of their interests in relation to matters falling within the province of the local authority, as well as the right to join any association."
- "Everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to participate in peaceful activities against violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms."
- "Internally displaced persons, whether or not they are living in camps, shall not be discriminated against as a result of their displacement in the enjoyment of the following rights: (c) The right to associate freely and participate equally in community affairs."
- "Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association at all levels, in particular in political, trade union and civic matters, which implies the right of everyone to form and join trade unions for the protection of his or her interests."
- "The right of association will be guaranteed. The right to form and — subject to the general right of a trade union to determine its own membership — freely to join a trade union will be guaranteed. These rights will exclude any prior control. Freedom of association for workers, including the freedom to strike, will be guaranteed, subject to limitations prescribed by law and consistent with international standards."
- "The freedom of association and the right to meet and organize peaceful demonstrations shall also be guaranteed."
- "SADC Member States shall adhere to the following principles in the conduct of democratic elections: Freedom of association."