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Board Meeting of the Center
On the 23rd of December, 2010 Russian Research Center for Human Rights will hold a Board Meeting with the aim to consider an application of a newly registered trans-regional organization Center of Caucasian Initiative with the request to integrate the organization into the Center.
HR organisations express concern with ineffective implementation of PACE resolution on N. Caucasus
International and Russian human rights organizations, including Human Rights Center Memorial, the Civil Rights Defenders and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee have sent a letter to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe expressing concern with the lack of effective implementation of its resolution 1738 (2010) on Legal remedies for human rights defenders in North Caucasus.
Cooperation of psychiatrists and human rights defenders will be resumed
On the 13th of December Independent Psychiatric Association of the Russian Federation and Moscow Helsinki Group held a seminar ‘Human Rights and Psychiatry’ within the projects on the protection of people with mental disorders and prevention of tortures in closed establishments of the Russian Federation. More then 40 experts, representatives of regional NGOs visited the event.
Seminar ‘Human Rights and Psychiatry’
On the 13th of December, 2010 Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia (RRCHR) in cooperation with Moscow Helsinki Group (RRCHR) will organize a seminar ‘Human Rights and Psychiatry’ within the projects on the protection of people with mental disorders and prevention of tortures in closed establishments of Russia.
IPA visited Moscow Mental Health Facility №5
On the 2nd of December, 2010 representatives of Independent Psychiatric of the Russian Federation (IPA) psychiatrists Yuri Savenko and Natalia Spiridonova and Liubov Vinogradova, medical psychologist, in cooperation with representatives of Federal Ombudsman’s Administration visited Moscow Metal Health Facility №5 in connection of large number complaints from the patients of hospital and their relatives.
Mandates of the Public Supervising Committees of new calling
On the 14 of December in the building of Government of Moscow region new mandates of the Public Supervising Committees will be handing out.
Seminar ‘How to Treat People with Mental Disorders’
On13th of December Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia in cooperation with Moscow Helsinki Group holds a seminar ‘How to treat people with mental disorders’.
IPA will visit to psycho-neurological hospital
Experts fro Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia will visit psycho-neurological hospital of Moscow within the joint project of Human Rights House Foundation Russian Research Center for Human Rights ‘Prevention of tortures and violent treatment in closed establishments of Russia’. The aim of the visit is to collecting information about physical conditions of the patients, cases of violent and rude treatment of the patients by the staff of the hospitals, working out measure son prevention of treatment of the kind.
Workshop ‘Children without violence’
In cooperation with the Smolensk Department on education and science regional public organization ‘Right of the Child’ will hold a round table ‘Children without violence’. The coordinator of the project Svetlana Pronina will make a report on the most urgent problems of children’s rights protection. The event was visited by human rights activists, teachers, representatives of the state bodies, controlling childish institutions and the media.