Members’ News

Yuri Dmitriev, Head of Memorial Karelia, who is tried on child pornography charges, was released from pre-trial detention on 27 January 2018. Dmitriev left the detention centre in Petrozavodsk in the early morning on condition he cannot leave the city without police permission. The release should have taken place on 28 [...]

European NGOs, including member organisations of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum – such as the Citizens’ Network Watchdog and the Stefan Batory Foundation from Poland, call on EU institutions to establish the Instrument to Support European Values in Europe and seek for signatures from European NGOs. The current value crisis […]

"Stand up for human rights, side by side with NGOs" was the title of a recent discussion in Rome to promote dialogue about the current work environment for human rights organisations in Italy. NGOs and human rights defenders, both in Italy as in Europe, are under attack for their role [...]

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9 January 2018 was the deadline for the verdict on the address of the “Environmental Watch on North Caucasus” (EWNC) on its exclusion from the so-called list of NGOs – “foreign agents”. This address was forwarded by the “Environmental Watch” to the Russian Ministry of Justice last September. According to […]

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks called on the Russian authorities to immediately release the Head of the Chechen Branch of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" Oyub Titiev. "With deep concern, I learned about the detention of a well-known human rights activist and the Head of the [...]

We, the undersigned, condemn the brutal and violent attack on Andrei Rudomakha and members of Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus,  a Forum’s member organisation, in the evening of 28 December 2017 in Krasnodar, Russia. We demand that the Russian authorities conduct a swift, full, and thorough investigation into the […]