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In many parts of the Balkans, Caucasus and Eastern Europe human rights defenders face threats and violence, slander and intimidations, and are the targets of new laws restricting their rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly, and simply to work to defend human rights.

Side-event to the 25th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the space for civil society and human rights defenders.

Economic and social rights are as systematically violated as civil and political rights in the Republic of Belarus.

Side-event at the 25th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council session aiming at highlighting the need to ensure accountability for human rights violations in Ukraine.

18-19 февраля 2014 года в Великом Новгороде пройдет конференция «Бесплатная правовая помощь: вызовы и формы реализации» для практикующих адвокатов и юристов из Азербайджана, Беларуси, Молдовы, России и Украины. Конференция будет проходить в Малом зале Новгородской областной филармонии им. А.С. Аренского, по адресу: Великий Новгород, Кремль, 8.

Press conference by Ukrainian human rights defenders following the urgent debate on Ukraine of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Panel discussion: “traditional (national) values versus universal human rights norms – How can human rights defenders react?”

The South Caucasus Network of Human Rights Defenders was founded in 2009 and unites NGOs from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The Human Rights House Foundation has from the start been an international associated member invited to take part in the selection of member organizations and the development of the Network.

The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) shared its trial-monitoring methodology with lawyers and civil society representatives from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia at a training workshop in Vilnius on 25 and 26 November 2013, organized in co-operation with the Belarusian Human Rights House.