strategy
Enabling fair elections
Synonyms:
Holding free electionsSupporting democratic voting
Ensuring just election administration
Providing fair elections
Implementation:
Since its inception in 1945, the United Nations has enabled people in over 45 countries to participate in free and fair elections, including those held in Cambodia, Namibia, El Salvador, Eritrea, Mozambique and Nicaragua. It has provided electoral advice, assistance and monitoring of results. Most recently it has played a major part in bringing about the downfall of the apartheid system in South Africa, which the General Assembly called "a crime against humanity". Elections were held in April 1994 in which all South Africans were allowed to participate on an equal basis, followed by the establishment of a majority government. Broader:
Using electoral processEnabling selection processUpholding just participationRespecting democratic processesConsolidating representative democracy Narrower:
Ensuring just election timingCreating representative electoral systemsReducing discrimination against those seeking election Constrained by:
Manipulating elections Facilitates:
Generating electoral actionEnsuring social participationReviewing political election issuesAttracting wide political participationAllowing participation in decision-making Facilitated by:
Registering local votersExtending universal suffrageObserving national electionsProviding information on electionsPromoting political participation of womenAdvancing role of non-governmental organizations in peacekeeping Problems:
Bias in selection of political candidatesElectoral fraud
Electoral organization favouring political incumbents
Limitations on right to vote
Obstruction of elections
Political party manipulation of elections
Political smear campaigns
Unfair elections
Unjust election timing
Organizations:
Association of European Election Officials OSCE - Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights United Nations Centre for Human Rights IFES International Association of Clerks, Recorders, Election Officials and Treasurers Subjects:
Communication → ExhibitionsGovernment → Politics
Management → Administration
Metapolitics → Political theories
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
