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International League for Human Rights
The International League for Human Rights is one of the oldest international non-governmental human rights organizations (The League has existed in the United States since the beginning of the 1940s). The organization has a consultative status with the United Nations (ECOSOC and ILO). The International League for Human Rights conducts projects to support human rights and the democratic development in various European and African countries. The organization actively co-operates with human rights NGOs in Russia, Belarus and several other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), in particular, by helping these NGOs to interact effectively with international structures (First of all the United Nations) in the field of human rights. In the last couple of years, the International League for Human Rights has given organizational and financial support to NGOs from Russia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan. In collaboration with these NGOs the International League for Human Rights has participated in the preparation and presentation of reports on the observance of international pacts and conventions on human rights to treaty organs of the United Nations. The Geneva Office of the League organizes visits for representatives of NGOs from former Soviet-republics, to the United Nations Centre in Geneva and to the Directorate of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Annually, the League awards a Human Rights Prize to famous human-rights activists and international figures in this sphere (In 1996 this prize was awarded to Sergey Kovalyov).
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