29 March 2007
Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting
On 29-30 March 2007 in Vienna the Ombudsman participated on the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting in organization of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). The meeting was titled: “Freedom of Assembly, Association and Expression: Fostering Full and Equal Participation in Pluralist Societies”. There were three sessions: Freedom of association in the OSCE region – challenges and opportunities, Freedom of peaceful assembly in the OSCE region - challenges and opportunities and Freedom of expression and the role of the media in a pluralist society. Participants stressed that degree on which those rights are respecting reflex situations in the societies and elimination of those three rights is actually denial of citizen’s participation by their governments.