Promoting Human Rights and Democracy in the Next EU Multiannual Financial Framework
Repressive governments are pursuing a backlash against democracy and human rights, diminishing civic space and creating a chilling effect for those working to promote and protect human rights. Civil society organisations (CSOs) and individual human rights defenders (HRDs) have been directly affected, admits the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR). [...]
13 Mar 2018
NGO day was held in Archangelsk
More than 100 people visited the NGO Day in Archangelsk held within the framework of the Presidential Grants Foundation seminar. The organizations that received presidential grants in 2017 presented their projects during the event. In 2017, 49 projects of the Archangelsk region received grant support - about 40% of all applications submitted, [...]
13 Mar 2018
Russian NGOs Sent a Collective Memorandum to the ECtHR
Russian nonprofit organisations adressed a memorandum to the ECtHR as regards the complaints on the "foreign agents" law. The document was prepared by the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" and the International Human Rights Group "Agora". The memorandum will allow the ECtHR to understand how the legislation on "foreign agents" was [...]
13 Mar 2018
