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Archive May 2008 year
published 29.05.2008 Youth Human Rights Movement: May activities in Berlin (Germany ) 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 »» |
published 23.05.2008 Leading Human Rights Defender Assaulted Investigate Whether Mikael Danielian Was Targeted for His Human Rights Work (Armenia) As part of their investigation into yesterday's assault of a leading human rights defender, the Armenian authorities should investigate the extent to which the victim's human
rights work was a motive for the attack, Human Rights Watch said today. Mikael Danielian, the chairman of the Armenian Helsinki Association, was wounded by an air gun on May 21, 2008 in Yerevan, the country's capital. Danielian was not seriously wounded. in detail »» |
published 23.05.2008 Mikael Danielian shot (Armenia)  21 may about 3:00 an unknown person fired a shot at the chairman of the Helsinki Association-Armenia Mikael Danielian on Terian Street, Yerevan. According to Danielian's friend they had hardly stopped under a traffic light when Danielian noticed a friend walking along the pavement. He stretched out to salute him. in detail »»
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published 22.05.2008 10 years on guard of Human Rights (Russian Federation) On May 22, 1998 the first ombudsman of the Russian Federation was designated. In 10 years this institute became one of the most important institutes in the sphere of providing guarantees of state protection of Human Rights in this country. in detail »» |
published 21.05.2008 Support the alternative NGO report on the situation of racial discrimination in Russia (Russian Federation) 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”. in detail »» |
published 17.05.2008 “Multinational Georgia” presents the results of the pre-election monitoring (Georgia) On May 16 the results of the survey carried out by the civil movement “Multinational Georgia” to reveal the state of pre-election awareness of the population of the two regions densely populated by ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijanis were published. in detail »» |
published 15.05.2008 They can when they want: a meeting against police arbitrariness was held without abuse on May 15 in Moscow (Russian Federation) On May 15 at 7 pm in the Novopushkinsky Square a meeting against police arbitrariness was organised. According to different estimates about 400 to 500 people assembled, mainly anarchists, antifascists, human rights activists as well as representatives of opposition parties and movements. The meeting became logical continuation of the “Week against police arbitrariness” on which we reported recently. in detail »» |
published 15.05.2008 Informational and awareness-raising campaign "Youth and the Army"Main (No Region) The meeting of the regional coordinators of the All-Russian Program "Informational and awareness-raising campaign "Youth and the Army" will take place in the middle of May in Moscow. The program is implemented in 10 regions of Russia. in detail »» |
published 09.05.2008 Join the awareness-raising action “Europe as a fact or Europe as a choice?” (Russian Federation) The “Young Europe” international network, the international Youth Human Rights Movement and the Free University with support from the World Youth Movement for Democracy invite you to join the awareness-raising action “Europe as a fact or Europe as a choice” (May 17 – 32, 2008) for European youth. in detail »» |
published 09.05.2008 New Initiative of “Multinational Georgia” on monitoring voting (Georgia) The NGO “Multinational Georgia” is going to submit a letter to the Central Election Commission to support the registration of election observers for Georgian accredited embassies abroad. in detail »» |
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On 4 December, following a decision passed by the City Prosecutor, a search was undertaken of the research and information centre "Memorial" in St. Petersburg, the organization researching the history of the Stalinist Terror . The search was carried out under the pretext of an investigation into the case of what the Prosecutor asserts was an "extremist" publication a year and a half ago in a newspaper called "New Petersburg". |
International initiative «Georgian-Russian civil dialogue» is proud to announce an Essay Competition, oriented towards perception of the conflict in South Ossetia, search for ways of overcoming the conflict’s consequences and evolution of peace in the region. |
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