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English Language Page Financial support for this project was given by the UK Department for International Development. The main goal of the project was improving the existing system of monitoring in Russia and forming a core of activists of Russian NGOs that are prepared to conduct training on human rights monitoring. The direct task of the project consisted of providing assistance to the development of NGOs skills of human rights monitoring and of writing reports on the conformity of Russian legislation and the use of land practices to the European human rights standards. To accomplish the goals a seria of seminars pilot monitoring projects were conducted, furthermore have been drawn up educational modules on human rights monitoring. NGOs from five regions of the Russian Federation (Arkhangelsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhnii Novgorod and Rostov-on-Don) have been selected to become regional partners in the project. 10 seminars on human rights monitoring as a whole and on specific sorts of thematic monitoring have been held in the framework of the project. The activities took place in Moscow as well as in other cities (Krasnoyarsk, Nizhnii Novgorod and Sochi). International experts participated in the seminars as lecturers and trainers. On April 27 – May 6, 2001 has been made an study trip to Northern Ireland (UK) to become acquainted with the monitoring model of conflict situations existing there and that are used by authorities and also by non-governmental structures. On the results of the competition three projects were selected for pilot monitoring • Independence of Judicial Authorities in Russia: Practices and Procedures of Responsibilities (“Nizhny Novgorod Human Rights Society”, Nizhny Novgorod), • State–Supported Discrimination Against Children of Meskhetian Turks in the Krasnodar Territory (Novorossiisk City Public Foundation “School of Peace”, Krasnodar region) • Observance of Juveniles' Right to a Fair Trial in the Rostov Region (“Christians against torture and child slavery”, Rostov-on-Don). All three projects were successfully realized, reports on their results were written, published and officially presented in Moscow on March 3 2003. The main result of the project is a compilation of educational materials on human rights monitoring on a CD that will be distributed throughout Russian human rights organizations. This will not only be separate passages from different textbooks, monographs and texts of international legislative acts, but also modules that were developed at seminars with assistance of regional partners that participated in the project. The international experts that participated in the seminars on the project “Assistance to Independent Monitoring of Human Rights in Russia” were: • Jane Winter, British Irish Rights Watch (UK) • Jennifer Tuz, Legal Adviser with the legal department of the Home Office of the UK government • David Harris, Co-director of Human Rights Law Center of Nottingham University (UK) • Karen Kenny, Co-director of International Human Rights Trust (Ireland) • Mark Kelly, Member of European Committee on Prevention of Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UK) • Murray Hant, Lawyer at Matrix, legal practice (UK) • Olga Chernishova, Lawyer, the European Court of Human Rights • Phillip Leach, Director of the legal department of the Kurdish Human Rights Project (UK) Back |
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