The Global Workshop:
A Photographic Record

Group Photo: First Row (left to right): Ingrid Backstrom Vose, IDEA, Dan Kalale, Zambia; Ariana Adabul Mun'im, Indonesia; Monica Bartley, Jamaica; Felix Simulungu, Zambia; Halit Ferizi, Kosovo; Michael Cooke; Austrialia.
Second Row: Jerry Mindes, IFES; Mary O'Hagan, New Zealand; Anna Birte Pade, Denmark; Heppy Sabayang, Indonesia; Aferdita Berishi, Kosovo; Wilma Neuholdt-Druchen, South Africa; Sarah Gull, United Kingdom; Maria Magdalena Mungunda, Namibia; Diane Davidson, Canada; Jeff Fischer, IFES; Gael Martin-Micallef, France; Jean-Pierre Kingsley, Canada; Kate Sullivan, IDEA.
Third Row: Luc Dumont, Canada; Tomas Lagerwall, Sweden; Pedro Chavez, Peru; Abednico Melato Khetsi, Lesotho; Leiff Jeppsson, Sweden; Mafole Sematlane, Lesotho, Kwadro Sarfo-Kantanka, Ghana; Nicholas Halm, Ghana; Martin Long, United Kingdom; Pal Gado, Hungary; Andre van Deventer, South Africa; Pauline Welsh, Jamaica; Eva Falkenberg, Sweden, Bengt Lindqvist, Sweden.

 

Observing Elections: Felix Simulunga, of the Zambia Federation of the Disabled (ZAFOD), speaking to a voter at a polling station in Uppsala, Sweden.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Observing Elections: Reg Austin, of International IDEA (right) speaking to an election worker in Uppsala, Sweden. Others in the picture, from left to right, are Dan Kalale of the Zambia Electoral Commission, Felix Simulunga of ZAFOD, and Kwadro Sarfo-Kantanka of the Ghana Electoral Commission.

 

 

 

 

Observing Elections: Nicholas Halm of the Ghana Federation of the Disabled (right), and Abednico Melato Khetsi of the Lesotho National League of Visually Impaired Persons, sharing perspectives on electoral access with two Swedish voters who also have visual impairments. Uppsala, Sweden.

 

 

 

 

Observing Elections: Group of workshop participants preparing to observe elections, including from left to right: Gael Martin-Micaleff, Council of Europe; Anna Birte Pade, Danish Ministry of the Interior; Sophie Beaumont, European Disability Forum; Kate Sullivan, International IDEA; Richard Soudriette, IFES; Marsanne Selzer, interpreter; Andre van Deventer, World Federation of the Deafblind; and Anna-Maria Loftus, interpreter.

 

 

Plenary Sessions: Opening the meeting, from left to right: Ewa Eliasz of the OSCE Office of Democratic Initiatives and Human Rights, Kwadro Sarfo-Kantanka of the Ghana Electoral Commission, Richard Soudriette of IFES, and Karen Fogg of International IDEA.

 

 

 

 

 

Plenary Sessions: From left to right: Jean Pierre Kingsley, Chief Electoral Office of Canada; Eva Falkenberg, Disability Advisor of the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida); Bengt Lindqvist, UN Special Rapporteur on Disability; and Nicholas Halm, Ghana Federation of the Disabled.

 

 

 

 

 

Plenary Sessions: From left to right: Maria Lourdes Gonzales, CAPEL; Felix Simulunga, Zambian Federation of the Disabled; Anura Priyadharshanan Yapa, Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament; Mary O'Hagan, World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry; Ariana Abadul Mun'im, Indonesian Electoral Access Committee; and Pedro Chavez, APPRODIS (Peru).

 

 

 

 

Drafting the Bill of Electoral Rights: From left to right: Luc Dumont, Elections Canada; Mary O'Hagan, World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry; Pauline Welsh, Electoral Office of Jamaica; Michael Cooke, Australian Electoral Commission; and Ewa Eliasz, of the OSCE Office of Democratic Initiatives and Human Rights.

 

 

 

 

Drafting the Bill of Electoral Rights: From left to right: Pal Gado of the ACEEEO (Hungary), Aferdita Berisha (hidden), Kosovo; Halit Ferizi, Handikos of Kosovo; Anna Birte Pade, Denmark Ministry of the Interior; Christine Fleetwood (hidden), Swedish Disability Federation; and Ewa Eliasz, OSCE/ODIHR.