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Film festival on human rights?
The Helsinki Foundation is making efforts to organize in Warsaw the second International Film Festival “Human Rights in Film”. On 29 June HFHR´s representative Darek Kowalski returned from New York, where he had watched about 50 films presented at various festivals by Human Rights Watch. (2 July 2002)
Legal aid should be closer to the poor
HFHR’s publication entitled “Report on Monitoring of Access to Legal Aid Paid for by the State” was delivered to the participants of an international forum on legal aid in the Republic of Poland. The event took place in the Houses of Parliament in Warsaw. (2 July 2002)
Project: “Access to legal aid in Poland”
For more than a year now the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR) has been carrying out a project entitled “ACCESS TO LEGAL AID.” The culmination point of the project will take place on 7-8 June on the premises of the Polish Parliament: Sejm. (28 May 2002)
Human rights education in Georgia
In the nearest future, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR) will be strongly involved in human rights education in Georgia. (28 May 2002)
Russians taught to disobey
A group of NGO members from different parts of the Russian Federation are taking part in a seminar devoted to various techniques of actions in public interest. The seminar is organized by the Helsinki Foundation. (26 April 2002)
Central Asians learn about human rights
Two teams from HFHR have visited Central Asia in connection with a human rights education and monitoring project. (26 April 2002)
590 graduates of the Human Rights School
The total number of the Human Rights School has increased to 590 after the examinations that ended the 19. edition of the course organised by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. (16 March 2002)
Course for activists from the former Soviet Union
In Warszawa, 48 persons from the former Soviet Union take part in the first session of the International Advanced Course in Human Rights. The course will last until January 2003. (11 March 2002)
Hundreds of Poles demonstrated for Tibet
Some 400 people gathered outside the Chinese embassy in Warsaw to mark the 43rd anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against Chinese occupation. The demonstration was organised by the Polish Tibetan Friendship Association. (10 March 2002)