Open Letter to the European Parliament’s Committee on Sustainable Cohesion Policy Funding
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 [...]
17 Jan 2019
Anton Burkov: “We Do Not Have a Register of Donors, but There Is a Presumption of Consent, Which Is Often Applied”
Interview with Anton Burkov, lawyer at NGO "Sutiazhnik" (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
18 Dec 2018
Open Call for Applications for the Emergency Support Fund
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 [...]
17 Dec 2018
Round Table on Xenophobia in Budapest
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 […]
17 Dec 2018
From Online Battlefield to Loss of Trust?
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 [...]
17 Dec 2018
Release Human Rights Activist Lev Ponomarev
Statement by the Board of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum
11 Dec 2018
Endorsement of the Memorandum by Russian Human Rights Defenders on the Crisis in Relations between the Council of Europe and Russia
Statement by the Board of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum
06 Dec 2018
We Need to Hold On to the Principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders
Statement by the Solidarity Group of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum
05 Dec 2018
Invitation: Autumn Talks in Berlin on 14 November 2018
The Annual Conference “Berlin Autumn Talks” organised by DRA/ German-Russian Exchange, a Forum member organisation, will take place this year on 14 November. In recent years, “Berlin Autumn Talks” has become an integral part of the Berlin Eastern Europe specialist scene and is preparing to welcome an interested public for [...]
05 Nov 2018
Discussion “Wall Around Crimea” on 14 November 2018 in Berlin
On 14 November 2018, SOLIDARUS, a Forum member organisation, will organise the discussion “Wall around Crimea: Results of the International Mission of Human Rights Houses to the Occupied Peninsula”. During the event, the report on the human rights situation in Crimea on the results of the monitoring visit of the [...]
05 Nov 2018
Polina Filippova: “Civil Society in the Shape We Have It Now Is One of the Best Inventions of the 20th Century”
Interview with Polina Filippova, Director of Communications and Head of the Volunteer Centre at the Sakharov Centre, Board member at the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum (Moscow, Russia)
05 Nov 2018
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
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
"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