Editorial: For all people – Human rights declaration offers noble call
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posted by zaina19 on December, 2005 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/11/2005 1:58 AM Editorial: For all people – Human rights declaration offers noble call Friday, December 09, 2005 Saturday marks the 57th anniversary of a global milestone. On Dec. 10, 1948, the United Nations approved its Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a landmark document that called for the liberty and dignity of all people to be respected by the sovereign nations of the world. The principles set forth in that declaration – honoring freedom, security and opportunity – remain powerful ideas, but still are not shared by all the world's people. Human Rights Day, recognized Saturday, reminds us that the fight against tyranny, discrimination and injustice continues. The noble nature of these beliefs should compel all people to work toward their peaceful growth around the globe. The United Nations was born in the aftermath of the second World War, and was envisioned as a forum where all nations could ... >> full...
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Russia’s Largest Migrants Rights NGO Stops Operations
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/11/2005 2:18 AM Russia’s Largest Migrants Rights NGO Stops Operations Created: 11.12.2005 12:38 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 12:38 MSK > document.write(get_ago(1134293929)); </SCRIPT> , 37 minutes ago MosNews Russia’s biggest umbrella NGO that deals with migrants’ problems, Forum of Migrants’ Organizations, has announced end of its operation in Russia, the Ekho Moskvy radio station reported Sunday. The Forum’s basic foreign sponsors have practically stopped the funding because of the Russia’s expected toughening on NGOs, the organization’s chairperson Lidia Grafova said. The bill that would require local branches of foreign NGOs to reregister as de-facto Russian entities, subject to stricter financial and legal restrictions, was approved by the Russian State Duma (lower chamber of parliament) in the first of three required readings. After many foreign rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, harshly criticized the draft law, President Putin promised to introduce amendments. However until the final decision, sponsors who fund Forum ... >> full...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/14/2005 1:55 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 9/12/2005 Abductions in Chechnya Three civilians have been abducted in Chechnya for the last 24 hours. Another one, abducted in the morning on 8 December, was released yesterday evening, a source with republican law enforcement agencies told Caucasian Knot's correspondent. Two people were abducted in Grozny and the other two (including the one released) in the republic's Grozny district. "Unknown people in camouflage uniforms abducted two local residents in Grozny yesterday. Makhmud Magomadov was brought away from his flat in Tukhachevskii St and Kazbek Jantamirov from his house in Malgobekskaia St," the officer of Chechnya's Internal Affairs Ministry said. "One more fact of abduction was registered in the Grozny district. A group of armed people, also in camouflage uniforms, abducted Askhab Yusupov, a local resident, from his home." "Besides, unidentified persons seized and brought away a young guy, Shamil Gatsayev, in Prigorodnoye, Grozny district, ... >> full...
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Trial over Stanislav Dmitriyevsky
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/14/2005 2:32 AM 12.12.2005 16:28 MSK Trial over Stanislav Dmitriyevsky Stanislav Dmitriyevsky Stanislav Dmitriyevsky RUSSIA, Nizhny Novgorod. (Russian-Chechen Friendship Society Information Centre). On 7 December, Sovetsky District Court in Nizhny Novgorod continued to hear a criminal case against Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, editor-in-chief of Pravo-zaschita newspaper and executive director of Russian-Chechen Friendship Society. He is accused of inciting racial, ethnic and social hostility. Galina Vronskaya, senior lecturer at the chair of journalism of Chuvashia State University and president of the Guild of Linguistic Experts of Chuvashia, acted as an expert witness for the defence at the trial. She told the court that in her appraisal, the publications, that Dmitriyevsky has been incriminated with, contain no degrading descriptions, negative appraisals or statements in relation to racial, ethnic or social groups or individuals representing them. The expert drew the court’s attention to the fact that the offending publications contain many facts that in themselves ... >> full...
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Ekaterinburg protest meeting against illegality in prisons
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/14/2005 2:35 AM 13.12.2005 13:50 MSK Ekaterinburg protest meeting against illegality in prisons RUSSIA, Ekaterinburg. (Ekaterinburg Movement Against Violence.) On December 12th, Constitution Day, at the office of the Representative of the President of the Russian Federation to the Ural Federal Region, a protest meeting took place against the arbitrariness of law-enforcement agencies. Participants presented Representative Peter latysheva with documents confirming the facts of illegality in the regions prisons. Protest participants included victims, and relatives, and friends of those who suffered due to the actions of law-enforcement agencies. Activists of the Ekaterinburg Movement Against Violence came forward in defense of political prisoners serving sentences in the Urals. Posters read "Freedom to Mikhail Trepashkin!", "Freedom to Pavel lyuzakov!", "Freedom to political prisoners!” Others came forward in defense of prisoners who are not political: "Criminal cases are prepared at the IK 2 "Factory”; "You can’t force respect for the law by ... >> full...
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