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Members of the Human Rights House Network (HRHN) express their concern to learn that the European Union is aiming at further reducing the ordinary budget of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The NGOs call upon the European Union to support the work of the Office, by increasing its ordinary budget as a way to strengthen the impact of its work and cooperation by all States.

Российский закон «об иностранных агентах» не соответствует международно-правовым стандартам, а отношение власти к некоммерческим организация нуждается в переосмыслении и реконструкции.
К такому выводу пришли организаторы и участники круглого стола «Развитие некоммерческого законодательства. Международный опыт», прошедшего 31 октября в Москве.

International and Azerbaijani NGOs express in a joint call to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe their dismay of the Assembly’s findings in regard to the Presidential election in Azerbaijan.

The HFHR prepared an observation report on the Independence March in Warsaw that took place on 11 November 2013. “The report is based only on the information prepared by ten independent observers from the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights who participated in the monitoring – on their reports and on their recorded video and photographic materials”, says Danuta Przywara, President of the HFHR. “Hence it should not be treated as comprehensive observation but as an objective summary of what the observers managed to see”, adds Ms Przywara.

Human rights defenders and their NGOs working on the rights of women or related to gender face more and more risk, including those working on sexual rights, such as the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual people (LGBT). The United Nations needs to send a strong signal.

On issuing decisions denying refugee status to foreigners, the Office for Foreigners (OF) automatically banned them from re-entering Poland, despite the fact that there was no legal ground for imposing such a ban. The [Polish] Refugee Council revoked such decisions. Only in September 2013 did the Office inform about its change of practice in this regard. Currently, the HFHR calls on the OF to revoke their negative decisions issued before a change of policy.

Human Rights House Network program for lawyers and human rights defenders “International Law in Advocacy” supports the multifaceted cooperation with the ODIHR OSCE, the results of which were new workshops for participants and the Guidelines on Human Rights Education for Human Rights Activists

Программа Сети Домов прав человека для юристов и правозащитников «Международное право для защиты общественных интересов» поддерживает разноплановое сотрудничество с ОБСЕ БДИПЧ, результатами которого стали новые обучающие семинары для участников и руководство для подготовки программ и обучению правам человека.

Упраўленне Вярхоўнага камісара Арганізацыі Аб’яднаных Нацый па правах чалавека выпусціў новы даведнік для прадстаўнікоў грамадзянскай супольнасці аб тым, як выконваць рэкамендацыі ААН ў сферы правоў чалавека. Ён можа прапанаваць добрыя прыклады таго, як павысіць эфектыўнасць і бачнасць міжнародных працэдур і стандартаў на нацыянальным узроўні.