The Riot in Angarsk Penal Colony: Call to Conduct Public Investigation and Answer the Questions
[ + ] 1. ↑ See, for example, statement by the Public Verdict Foundation: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2869255653169346&id=108044812623791; joint statement by the human rights defenders and journalists: https://memohrc.org/ru/news_old/pravozashchitniki-i-zhurnalisty-trebuyut-provesti-nezavisimoe-rassledovanie-obstoyatelstv 2. ↑ See https://rg.ru/2020/04/14/reg-sibfo/ministr-iusticii-rf-rasskazal-podrobnosti-o-sobytiiah-v-kolonii-v-angarske.html
Forum Membership Reconfirmation is Successfully Completed
Recently, we have completed the first reconfirmation procedure of the Forum participation status. 131 Members of the Forum that have been part of it for more than two years (131 organisations) have been offered to fill in the self-assessment questionnaire in order to reflect on their activity. The results have […]
A Call to Ensure Safety of Elena Milashina and Have a Proper Investigation into the Threats against Her
Download the statement The Board of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum is outraged by the silence and nonfeasance of Russian authorities in the case of the threats expressed by Ramzan Kadyrov, Head of the Chechen Republic (Russia), against Elena Milashina, a journalist of the “Novaya Gazeta” media outlet. For many […]
A Pandemic Is Not an Excuse for the Violation of Fundamental Rights of Citizens in Europe
[ + ] 1. ↑ See https://crd.org/2020/04/07/hungary-ignores-calls-for-respect-of-human-rights 2. ↑ See venice.coe. 3. ↑ See www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/B-9-2020-0032_EN.html 4. ↑ See www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/secretary-general-writes-to-victor-orban-regarding-covid-19-state-of-emergency-in-hungary 5. ↑ See www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-poland-election/poland-pushes-forward-postal-election-legislation-idUSKBN21P0KL and www.neweurope.eu/article/poland-presses-on-with-election-plans-despite-coronavirus-crisis 6. ↑ See https://balkaninsight.com/2020/03/16/serbia-imposes-state-of-emergency-pleads-for-chinas-help and https://crd.org/2020/03/18/serbia-to-respect-human-rights-obligations-during-covid-19-state-of-emergency 7. ↑ See https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/04/02/that-dirty-little-word-quarantine 8. ↑ See https://eu-russia-csf.org/the-appeal-to-the-council-of-europe-on-amendments-to-the-russian-constitution-received-strong-support-from-russian-citizens and https://tinyurl.com/ww7rvr2 9. ↑ See http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-en.asp?newsid=7825&lang=2 10. ↑ See https://strasbourgobservers.com/2020/03/27/covid-19-and-the-european-convention-on-human-rights and […]
Webinar: “Facilitating online meetings and remote teamwork”
Legal Dialogue Study Tour to the Netherlands
The group of three Russian environmental lawyers and activists took part in study tour to the Netherlands organised by the Legal Dialogue Programme. The main goal of the study tour was to learn about the best practices used in environmental litigation, environmental research methods and successful forms of activism. During […]
Europe Lab meets Netherlands
Alumni and followers of Europe Lab know that since 2015 we have travelled to Lithuania, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Italy and Slovenia with our Lab. In 2020 we finally go West! In the beginning of March, the Europe Lab coordinator Barbara Anna Bernsmeier travelled to Amsterdam, Assen and Groningen to prepare […]
Unconference for Civic Education
Study Tours 2020: migration, gender equality and Sustainable Development Goals
The Appeal to the Council of Europe on Amendments to the Russian Constitution Received Strong Support from Russian Citizens
The appeal to the Council of Europe asking the Venice Commission for an urgent legal examination of the amendments to the Russian Constitution and the procedures for their adoption has been signed by more than a hundred thousand Russian citizens in a week. Among the many recent protests in Russia […]
