International observers noted numerous serious irregularities in presidential and legislative election proceedings.

International observers agreed the election was not free or fair.

Independent local sources of political information on Eritrean domestic politics are scarce ; in September 2001 the government closed down all of the nation's privately owned print media, and outspoken critics of the government have been arrested and held without trial, according to domestic and international observers, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

International and non-governmental observers concluded that opposition parties would have been able to participate had they chosen to do so.

International observers judged the 2001 elections to be acceptable, but the Union for Victory Coalition, the second-largest vote recipient, disputed the results and boycotted parliament until 31 January 2002.

International and local observers reported the 2002 elections to be generally more fair and less violent than those of both 1992 and 1997.

International observers, including the Carter Center, judged the election to be free and fair.

In addition, the UN observer organizations International Committee of the Red Cross and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have entered into " official relations " with WHO and are invited as observers.

Two Temporary International Presence in Hebron observers were killed by Palestinian gunmen in a shooting attack on the road to Hebron On March 27, 2001, 16 days after settlers had celebrated Purim with a march through the city in which some settler children were dressed up as Baruch Goldstein, a Palestinian sniper targeted and killed the Jewish baby Shalhevet Pass.

International observers including the United Nations, Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ), and others called the election free, fair, and transparent.

Participants included MEPs, Amnesty International observers and random individuals who travelled from abroad to support LGBT Latvians and their friends and families.

Under the terms of Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions, children over the age of fifteen who have volunteered can be used as spotters, observers, and message-carriers ( see above International humanitarian law ).

Women's boxing was not featured at the 2008 Olympics ; however, on 14 August 2009, it was announced that the International Olympic Committee ’ s Executive Board ( EB ) had approved the inclusion of women ’ s boxing for the Games in London in the 2012 Olympics, contrary to the expectations of some observers.

Formally known as the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie ( OIF ) or the International Organization of the Francophonie, the organization comprises 56 member states and governments, 3 associate members, and 19 observers.

Most observers guess the population of Nogales, Sonora, at roughly 300, 000. International commerce is a big part of Nogales ’ economy.

International observers pulled out of the country after Fujimori refused to delay the runoff.

Three days later, after a protracted count which saw presidential results in Kibaki's Central Kenya come in last, allegedly inflated, in a cloud of suspicion and rising tensions, amid vehement protests by Raila's ODM, overnight re-tallying of results and chaotic scenes, all beamed live on TV, at the national tallying center at the Kenyatta International Conference Center in Nairobi, riot police eventually sealed off the tallying Center ahead of the result announcement, evicted party agents, observers and the media, and moved the Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Samuel Kivuitu, to another room where Kivuitu went on to declare Kibaki the winner by 4, 584, 721 votes to Odinga's 4, 352, 993, placing Kibaki ahead of Odinga by about 232, 000 votes in the hotly contested election with Kalonzo Musyoka a distant third.

A joint statement by the British Foreign Office and Department for International Development cited " real concerns " over irregularities, while international observers refused to declare the election free and fair.

International observers qualified the situation as the " collapse of reunification talks ", " last chance for Cyprus reunification lost ", and the " failure of UN Cyprus campaign for reunification ".

On March 31, 1994, representatives of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Israeli government signed an agreement requesting Italy, Denmark and Norway to provide observers to form a Temporary International Presence in the City of Hebron ( TIPH ).

During de la Madrid's presidency, he introduced liberal economic reforms that encouraged foreign investment, and widespread privatisations of outdated state-run industries and reduction of tariffs, a process that continued under his successors, which immediately caught the attention of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and other international observers.

Human Rights Groups in Argentina often cite a figure of 30, 000 disappeared, Amnesty International estimates 20, 000 while other observers think 12, 000 is a more accurate figure.

Human Rights Groups in Argentina often cite a figure of 30, 000 disappeared, Amnesty International estimates 20, 000 while other observers think 12, 000 is a more accurate figure.

The creation of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1910 was regarded as a milestone on the road to the ultimate goal of abolition of war.

The Toronto International Film Festival, begun in 1976, is regarded North America's most major and most prestigious film festival, and the most widely attended worldwide.

Nicknamed " the Old Gray Lady ", and long regarded within the industry as a national " newspaper of record ", The New York Times is owned by The New York Times Company, which also publishes 18 other newspapers including the International Herald Tribune and The Boston Globe.

* February 17 – First meeting of the " Committee of the Five " in Geneva, Switzerland, regarded as the foundation of the International Committee of the Red Cross, following the lead of humanitarian businessman Henry Dunant.

The existence of moganite was once regarded as dubious, but it is now officially recognised by the International Mineralogical Association .< ref > Origlieri, Marcus.

The theorists of the Situationist International regarded the current paradigm of work in advanced capitalist society as increasingly absurd.

The Fourth International, in line with its Trotskyist underpinnings, tended to view the Comintern as worthy of conditional support even considering its corruption, and although it regarded its own ideas as more advanced and thus superior to those of the Third International, it did not actively seek the Comintern's destruction.

Although the organisation reformed in 1923 as the Labour and Socialist International, supporters of the October Revolution and the Bolsheviks had already set up the Communist International ( Comintern ), which they regarded as the Third International.

Choi is regarded by many as the ' Founder of Taekwondo '— most often by International Taekwon-Do Federation ( ITF ) organizations.

On the other hand, according to the classification from International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) before April 2004, all the countries of Eastern Europe ( including Central European countries which still belongs to " Eastern Europe Group " in the UN institutions ) as well as the former Soviet Union ( USSR ) countries in Central Asia ( Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan ) and Mongolia, were not included under either developed or developing regions, but rather were referred to as " countries in transition "; however they are now widely regarded ( in the international reports ) as " developing countries ".

OR Tambo International Airport is regarded as a " hot and high " airport.

Most writers on international law have regarded this method of preventing such acts of hostility as unjustifiable, on the ground that the persons taken as hostages are not the persons responsible for the act ; that, as by the usage of war hostages are to be treated strictly as prisoners of war, such an exposure to danger is transgressing the rights of a belligerent ; and as useless, for the mere temporary removal of important citizens till the end of a war cannot be a deterrent unless their mere removal deprives the combatants of persons necessary to the continuance of the acts aimed at ( see W. E. Hall, International Law, 1904, pp. 418, 475 ).

Frenchman Eugene Meyer is now regarded as the father of the High Bicycle by the International Cycling History Conference in place of James Starley.

Once regarded as Asia's best airline, it is headquartered at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi and operates scheduled services to 24 domestic destinations and 38 international destinations in 27 countries across Asia, Europe and North America.

On 6 August 1420 he was in Florence, where he painted his famous altarpiece depicting the Adoration of the Magi ( 1423 ), now in the Uffizi and regarded as one of the masterpieces of the International Gothic style.

Lewis & Clark has nationally regarded programs in Biology, International Affairs, Psychology, Foreign Languages and Environmental Studies.

Pollen's Vanga is classed as Near-threatened by BirdLife International and the Red-shouldered Vanga, Bernier's Vanga, Helmet Vanga and Red-tailed Newtonia are regarded as Vulnerable.

* Kevin Coogan, Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1998 ISBN 1-57027-039-2 ( publisher's blurb, Table of contents )-The only biography of Yockey ever written, Coogan's work on Yockey's life is definitive, but the ' facts ' he presents regarding other figures should be regarded with caution.

Although there are a number of health informatics organisations in Australia, the Health Informatics Society of Australia ( HISA ) is regarded as the major umbrella group and is a member of the International Medical Informatics Association ( IMIA ).

Although it was long considered to be a subspecies of the Kentish Plover, recent genetic research strongly suggests it should be regarded as a distinct species, and both the American Ornithologists ' Union and the International Ornithological Congress recognise it as such.

One, the Revolutionary Socialist League, better known as the Militant tendency, objected to what it regarded as the uncritical way in which the International supported anti-colonial liberation movements and regarded the International's decision to give official recognition to a second, rival, group as undemocratic.