- Equal opportunities to campaign in a free to request international monitoring for its
environment; presidential elections. Now it is too late. It is
- Equitable access to the media; unlikely that a new election will be held to
- Impartial election administrative bodies; replace the contested one. The Iranian elections
- Unhindered access for international and have indicated a wide current of support for
domestic election observers; change. The hesitations of the ruling circle
- Effective representation and participation of concerning post-election manifestations have
wo men: highlighted division of views within this ruling
- Effective representation of national minorities; circle. The demonstrations have also indicated to
- Access for disabled voters;
the world community as a whole the need
- Honest and transparent counting and tabulation
for independent election monitoring. Steps
of the votes;
should be taken quickly for the UN to
- Effective complaints and appeals process with
provide such services drawing on the rich
an independent judiciary.
experience of the OSCE.
The United Nations has no comparable
permanent election monitoring office, but on an
ad hoc basis the UN played an important
monitoring role in the first multi-racial elections
in South Africa, and the Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights has provided
Rene Wadlow, Repr
esentative to the UN, Geneva,
Association of World Citizens
election aid and monitoring in countries such as
Nepal as that country was coming out of a
decade of armed violence.
The Iranian government would have been wise
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