Summary
Everyone has the right to leave and return to his/her own country.
Obligations
Election Parts
Issues
Criteria
- Freedom of movement was respected for all electoral stakeholders, including candidates, parties, and their supporters during the campaign period
- Freedom of movement was guaranteed to all electoral stakeholders, including the media
- Freedom of movement was respected throughout the electoral process, including the immediate election period
- Citizens were able to return to the country (as necessary) to register to vote
- Freedom of movement was respected throughout the electoral process
- Voters displaced in advance of election day had the possibility of returning on election day to cast their ballots or were included in voter lists at a place of stay.
Quotes
- 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… the right to security of the person and protection by the State against violence of bodily harm, whether inflicted by government officials or by any individual group or institution.(d) Other civil rights, in particular: (ii) The right to leave any country, including one's own, and to return to one's country.
- Everyone shall be free to leave any country, including his own.
- Everyone shall be free to leave any country, including his own.
- Every individual shall have the right to leave any country including his own, and to return to his country.
- Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
- Every person has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State. Every person has the right to leave any country including his or her own, and to return to his or her country.
- Another very important fundamental right in a democracy is freedom of movement within the country, together with the right for nationals to return to their country at any time.
- Everyone lawfully within a State has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of the State, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Sexual orientation and gender identity may never be invoked to limit or impede a person’s entry, egress or return to or from any State, including that person’s own State.