Humanitarian aid in Ukraine Video report, Bonn, 20. April 2024 Anton Alexeyev is the chairman of our Ukrainian section, Anton Alexeyev is the executive director of the Ukrainian section of the ISHR and head of the Information and Analysis Centre of the ISHR Ukraine, or IAC for short. As he is of course unable to travel so easily at the moment, he has sent us a video that gives us
"As a human rights defender in exile, I have experienced death threats and assassination attempts, smear campaigns and pressure on close relatives." Bonn, 20. April 2024 This is the German transcript. You can find the video recording on our YouTube channel as well as linked in this article. Parliamentary elections were held in Belarus in February 2024, but the human rights situation continued to deteriorate during the election process. The
A small country with a big heart Presentation from 20.04.2024, Bonn This is the German transcript. You can find the video recording on our YouTube channel as well as linked in this article. Moldova is one of the countries most affected by Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine. At the beginning of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Moldova became the leading country in the number of Ukrainian refugees received per
"They subject our people to terrible torture and force them to confess to fictitious crimes. Crimes they did not commit" Transcript from the 20.04.2024 Hello and thank you for your invitation. My name is Liusiena Zinovkina. I came to Germany two years ago when my home town of Melitopol was occupied by Russian soldiers. My husband's name is Kostiantyn Zinovkin, he is 34 years old and has been in Russian
The report, an annual review of human rights practices - such as individual, civil, political and labour rights - says that while the Moldovan authorities have taken some steps to combat corruption, they have been largely unsuccessful. The report argues that judicial independence remained a serious problem due to corruption and "selective justice, where the law was not applied equally to all and was often applied selectively for political reasons."
IGFM Annual General Meeting 2024 Cordial invitation to the 52nd annual meeting: War in Europe Advocating for Human Rights – Now More Than Ever Date: April 20th/21st 2024 Location: Gustav-Stresemann-Institut Langer Grabenweg 68, 53175 Bonn Dear members and friends of the International Society for Human Rights! On behalf of the Board of the IGFM, I would like to cordially invite you to our 52nd Annual General Meeting. We are delighted
A memoir written by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny before his imprisonment and death is to be published later this year. Navalny began work on his book while recovering from his 2020 poisoning with a nerve agent. He died in February after three years in jail for charges widely seen as politically motivated. His memoir will be "the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his
Cordial invitation to the 52nd annual meeting: IGFM Annual General Meeting 2024 War in Europe Advocating for Human Rights – Now More Than Ever! Date: April 20th/21st 2024 Location: Gustav-Stresemann-Institut Langer Grabenweg 68, 53175 Bonn Dear members and friends of the International Society for Human Rights! On behalf of the Board of the IGFM, I would like to cordially invite you to our 52nd Annual General Meeting. We
In Sochi, site of the Winter Olympics, Putin's “Hunger Games” are taking place this week for young people from all over the world. The ISHR is disgusted by the unbearable warmongering and dehumanization of Putin's warmongers. Medvedev rails against European heads of government and shows a European map in which there is no longer any Ukraine, only Russia. ISHR: Disgusting warmongering and brainwashing of young people Frankfurt/Moscow,
Oleg Orlov, co-founder of the human rights organization Memorial, which is now banned in Russia, was sentenced yesterday to two years and six months in prison for discrediting the army. The ISHR fears for the lives of numerous dissidents in Russia after the death of Alexei Navalny. Image source (Karinna Moskalenko): Wikipedia Russia: Putin continues to get rid of his critics – well-known civil rights activist sentenced to
