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CALENDARThe 26 of August — The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was approved in 1789 by the Constituent Assembly of the French Revolution. The Declaration has become one of the fundamental Human Rights documents. The 28 of August — “Day of a dream”. On this day in 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous «I have a dream» speech in front of a civil-rights rally of several thousands during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. A year later, the Congress passed Civil Rights Act that prohibited segregation. all calendar |
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Network Newspublished 12.08.2008 Statement of the Russian participants IN YHRM on the armed conflict between Russia and GeorgiaFor a few days already Russia is at war. A war which is going on on our behalf, but in breach both of the UN mandate and the Constitution of the Russian Federation. A war called a “peacemaking operation”, but leading to the death of civilians. A war that every new day is motivated with more and more lies and seeds more and more hatred. A war which is accompanied with inaction of the world’s intergovernmental organizations and mutual accusations of double standards. in detail »» |
published 08.07.2008 The “Open city” seeks for authors! We invite you to become authors of the next issue of the antifascist magazine "Open city" "The extreme right and the authorities – love-hate relationship" (draft title), devoted to the recent advances of extreme-right political parties and politicians. in detail »»
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News from Network Members | published 20.08.2008 Statement of Moscow Helsinki Group on War Conflict in South Ossetia and Georgia
Russia and Georgia military involvement for quite short period of time had led to multiple victims among population and disastrous destructions on the territory of South Ossetia and Georgia. In these war crimes the guilt is owned to both sides – Georgia that had started military actions on South Ossetia territory, and Russia that had used such circumstances to invade Georgian territory. Both sides also guilty in nonselective use of fire, in use of heavy-weight ground arms and aviation in places of civilian population location, in that thousands inhabitants of South Ossetia and Georgia had become refugees. Neither one, nor the other side made no effective attempts for protection of local people living in the war conflict zone, supplied no safe evacuation from this territory. Consequently, both Russia and Georgia had lost the moral right to peacemaking in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. It is international interference that needed for the conflict to be resolved. Russia by acting, not in words, should pullout troops from Georgia. Russia and Georgia should pullout their troops from South Ossetia and Abkhazia, in both regions the armed forces should be replaced by the presence of peacemaking units of the UN. in detail »» |
| | | | published 14.08.2008 Georgian Villages in South Ossetia Burnt, Looted
Human Rights Watch researchers in South Ossetia on August 12, 2008, saw ethnic Georgian villages still burning from fires set by South Ossetian militias, witnessed looting by the militias, and learned firsthand of the plight of ethnic Ossetian villagers who had fled Georgian soldiers during the Georgian-Russian conflict over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. in detail »» |
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| published 21.07.2008 Criticism = extremism
 Speech critical of the government, considered undesirable by the authorities, or which might incite “conflict,” has increasingly fallen prey to Russia’s vague anti-extremism law. in detail »»
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| | | | published 28.06.2008 Russian Anti-nuclear Action Camp 2008
 Anti-nuclear Action Camp 2008 will be held from 11 to 21 of August. It will take place near the city of Nizhniy Novgorod (400 km east from Moscow). in detail »»
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| published 04.07.2008 Civil actions against racism and xenophobia in Kharkov
On the 27th of June 2008 the regional conference «Civil actions against racism and xenophobia» took place in Kharkov. in detail »» |
| | | | published 09.04.2008 World Youth Movement for Democracy meets in Kyiv
On April 8, the functional workshop of the World Youth Movement for Democracy (WYMD) was organized in Kyiv in the framework of the Fifth Assembly of the WMD, of which it is a youth wing. in detail »» |
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| published 30.06.2008 Another Young Armenian Human Rights Activist Assaulted
Narek Hovakimyan, a member of Armenia’s pro-democracy youth movement Hima, was attacked and beaten yesterday, June 25, 2008, in downtown Yerevan. in detail »» |
| | | | published 20.06.2008 In Yerevan passes rally in support of political prisoners
 Notwithstanding the hot sun thousands of people are going up to the Matenadaran square, shouting “Freedom”, “Free, independent Armenia”, etc. in detail »»
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| published 18.06.2008 Ill-treatment/ Risk of impunity
The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) requests your URGENT intervention in the following situation in Azerbaijan. in detail »» |
| | | | published 15.06.2008 IRFS Chairman hospitalized after being Struck over Head with Gun by Police
June 14, in the "Alaturka" Cafe, an event organized by the "Che Guvera Fan Club" to mark the 80 birthday of Che Guvera and attended by a representative of the Cuban embassy was raided by police. Out of the approximately 25 people present, 20 were detained by police and taken to Nasimi District Police Department #22. Among those detained were IRFS Chairman Emin Huseynov and IRFS researchers Rasim Aliyev and Mirrehim Hasanov. The three had gone to conduct monitoring of the event. in detail »» |
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| published 16.06.2008 International journalism competetion 2008
Within the framework of the funding programme International Journalism Compe-tition, the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” is announcing for the second time a Journalism Prize in 2008. To mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 2008, the competition this year is focusing on press articles that take an in-depth look at Article 1 of the Declaration. The competition is open to journalists from Belarus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Russian Federation, Ukraine and the USA. in detail »» |
| | | | published 29.05.2008 Youth Human Rights Movement: May activities in Berlin
Supported by a group of members of the Berlin branch of YHRM, a Russian team of the Youth Human Rights Movement managed to organise a number of public actions and meetings with partners concerning the common project “Volunteers of Human Rights” while visiting the German capital from the 20th to the 25th of May. The given stay did not only offer the opportunity to carry on discussions and talks with present and future partners and volunteers of the project, but also to make an attempt to understand to which extent the west European youth is interested in human rights and East Europe. in detail »» |
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| published 07.06.2008 Cuban youth build democracy
Rolando Rodriguez Lobaina is the director of the Alternative Studies Center of the Cuban Youth for Democracy Movement. The Democratic Youth Movement was founded in 1994 in the city of Guantanamo, and works to denounce the violation of human rights. The movement is commited to defend freedom and justice in a peaceful and non-violent way. in detail »» |
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| published 06.06.2008 In Belarus start to be created surprising things!
The executive committee of Soligorsk has accepted an illegal decision on exception from Soligorsk’s school one of leaders of "Young Front" Ivan Shila for "active public work". And, the administration of school opposed such decision. in detail »» |
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| published 23.11.2007 The “Book of good deeds”will be publiched in Trans-Istria
Trans-Istria youth groups will be able to put their information in this publication. It is also planned by NGO “Stels-Tera” to review activities of 7 Trans-Istria youth organizations who have won Gazprombank grants in 2006. The purposes of this Book is to influence youth informational isolation and to overcome young people’ passiveness and produce the interest for social work. in detail »» |
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ADVERTISEMENTS:
So, COP 14 (or, formally, the 14th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) is basically the same thing as the one that happened in Bali last December (hope you heard about it from the news). |
The Russian anti-Discrimination initiative (RaDi) published an alternative report entitled “On the realization of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in the Russian Federation”. |
The programme is carried out in two separate phases. The accepted participant undertakes to complete both phases. |
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