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The Forum member organisation "Soldiers' Mothers of Saint Petersburg" invites all like-minded people to join together and become part of a large community involved in the protection of the rights of conscripts, soldiers and members of their families in Russia. Despite the difficult conditions for human rights defenders, all the [...]

Human rights project team of the Tak-Tak-Tak Foundation, a Forum member organisation, has launched a fundraising campaign on publishing a book on journalistic and public investigations. The book targets various groups of readers, including journalists, lawyers, civil society and human rights activists, as well as everyone who shares the idea of government transparency. [...]

Today, on 29 January 2019, International Historical, Educational, Charitable and Human Rights Society “Memorial” celebrates the 30th anniversary of its founding. Since 1989, the organisation has made an essential contribution to developing public awareness based on democratic values and overcoming totalitarian stereotypes, to revealing historical truth and preserving the memory of […]

On 22 January 2019, the SOVA Centre for Information and Analysis, a Forum member organisation, presented two reports at the International Memorial in Moscow - "A Continuous Decadence: Movement of Russian Nationalists in Spring-Summer 2018" and "The Far Right and Arithmetics: Hate Crimes and Combatting Them in Russia in 2018". [...]

Within the next Multiannual Financial Frame (MFF), the European Regional Development Fund / Cohesion Fund Regulation (ERDF/CF) and the Common Provisions Regulation (CPR) are key instruments that shape and determine the direction of the European Cohesion Policy after 2020. Ahead of the REGI Committee votes on these two pieces of [...]

Thomas Hughes, Executive Director of ARTICLE 19, a Forum supporter organisation, said: 'We welcome Advocate General Szpunar’s opinion that the CJEU should place limits on the scope of de-referencing carried out by search engines. 'European data regulators should not be able to determine the search results that internet users around [...]

Since the end of December 2018, there is a new wave of persecution against LGBT in Chechnya based on the alleged sexual orientation of victims, both men and women. Information received by the Russian LGBT Network, a Forum member organisation, suggests that around 40 people were detained; at least two people were killed.  Read [...]

A new publication was compiled as a part of the project "Countering Disinformation in the V4 and the Balkan Region: Mapping Needs, Building Capacity and Generating Civic Activism", which have been implemented by the Association for International Affairs (Czech Republic), a Forum member organisation, in cooperation with the GLOBSEC think [...]

On 25 October 2018, a round table on hatred and related crimes was held at the Cenral European University in Budapest, Hungary. The event was attended by Anton Khvostov, President of the Centre of Social, Legal and Environmental Initiatives, a Forum member organisation, who prepared the presentation “Xenophobia in Today’s […]

AFEW International, a Forum member organisation, and Aidsfonds announce their call for applications for emergency grants in the framework of the Emergency Support Fund for Key Populations. The activities of the Fund are financed by the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Organisations from 10 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia can [...]