Front Line Defenders Named Winner of 2018 United Nations Human Rights Prize
Front Line Defenders, Forum member organisation, is profoundly honoured to be recognized by the United Nations in being named one of the four winners of the 2018 United Nations Human Rights Prize as announced by President of the General Assembly today in New York. Read more
31 Oct 2018
Front Line Defenders Named Winner of the UN Human Rights Prize
Front Line Defenders, a Forum member organisation, is profoundly honoured to be recognised by the United Nations in being named one of the four winners of the 2018 United Nations Human Rights Prize as announced by President of the General Assembly in New York. Front Line Defenders congratulates the other [...]
31 Oct 2018
"Virus in Cell": Disruption of Anti-HIV Medicines in Penal Colonies
The Centre for Social Assistance "LUNa", a Forum member organisation, published a research by SPID.CENTRE outlining that medical institutions and medical units of the penitentiary system lack funding. According to data from the official website of the Russian Federal Penal Correction Service, in 2013 the state allocated about 2 billion [...]
16 Oct 2018
Success for Civil Society Against Hatred and Bigotry: Herbert Got Kick(l)ed out of the EU’s Anti-Racism Group
UNITED for Intercultural Action, a Forum member organisation, was one the first 264 signatories from 34 countries who have launched a successful call to cancel the invitation of Herbert Kickl to the European Union’s High Level Group on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Other Forms of Intolerance. The Austrian Minister of Interior was chosen [...]
16 Oct 2018
Oleg Kozlovsky Abducted and Harassed in Ingushetia
Oleg Kozlovsky, a researcher at Amnesty International and Director of the "Vision of Tomorrow" Foundation, a member organisation of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum, went to Ingushetia’s capital Magas to monitor mass protest rallies and was abducted, beaten and subjected to a staged execution by unknown men who identified themselves [...]
15 Oct 2018
Stefanie Schiffer was denied a Russian visa
Stefanie Schiffer, the Director of "European Exchange", member organisation of EU-Russia Civil Society Forum, the chair of EPDE (European Platform for Democratic Elections) and since 2015 the member of the board of the German-Russian high-level conference "Petersburger Dialog" was denied a Russian visa to attend the 17. annual conference of the Dialogue [...]
10 Oct 2018
Expert laboratory “Think critically!”
September 24-27, in Warsaw, the members of the Civic Education working group organized the work of the “Think critically!” Expert laboratory. That is how the project started, supported by a grant from the EU-Russia Civil Forum. 11 experts from NGOs and initiative groups from Russia, Germany, Poland, Lithuania and Hungary […]
28 Sep 2018
“Autumn Talks” in St. Petersburg: How Information Technologies Change Europe
German-Russian Exchange in St. Petersburg in cooperation with the Russian branch of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the Centre for German and European Studies(St. Petersburg State University — University of Bielefeld), the Goethe Institute in St. Petersburg, the Consulate of the Netherlands in St. Petersburg, the Polish Institute in St. Petersburg [...]
25 Sep 2018
Bridge 47 – Building Global Citizenship
On 3 October 2018, the Conference "Unlocking the Power of 4.7 - The Role of Global Citizenship Education in Achieving Sustainable Development" within the Bridge 47 Project will take place in Brussels, Belgium. Bridge 47 – Building Global Citizenship is a project co-created and implemented by 15 European and global [...]
25 Sep 2018
Megan McHaney: First-timer in High-level Political Forum – buzz, politics and opportunities
For a first-timer the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development can be a bit overwhelming. The politics for CSOs are complex, but the forum also offers vast opportunities from side events to exhibition halls and, of course, to meet new people and connections. Read more
21 Sep 2018