The OSCE-wide NGO-network Civic Solidarity Platform (CSP) will hold its annual OSCE Parallel Civil Society Conference 2016 in Hamburg on 6 and 7 December 2016.
This year, all the Ukrainian members of the CSP have formed a coalition to jointly pursue advocacy agenda at the OSCE Human Dimensions Implementation Meeting (HDIM) taking place in Warsaw.
Mika belonged to a period that retains a persistent nostalgia of the irresistible desire to break through the wall, sustained by the memory of the first generation of Soviet dissidents.
The Azerbaijani authorities should immediately release and drop the criminal case against Natig Jafarli of the Republican Alternative Movement (ReAl), the Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) said.
The IRCT is deeply concerned by reports of ongoing police violence, torture and ill-treatment of citizens in Armenia and calls on the authorities to refrain from further violations and to conduct impartial and effective investigation of all allegations in accordance with the international standards in the Istanbul Protocol.
On 1-2 December OSCE Parallel Civil Society Conference took place in Belgrade, organised by the Civic Solidarity Platform and hosted by the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia.
On 22 December Evgeny Vitishko, a Russian environment activist, was freed from the Sadovaya prison colony in Tambov Oblast. He was met by his fellow activists from Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus (EWNC) at the colony gates and he is now on his way home.
