Human Rights
OSCE Central Asian Youth Network discuss security challenges in the region
June 22, 2010Almost 40 university students from five Central Asian countries discussed Central Asia's long-term security challenges at a seminar that began in Almaty today. Ambassador Alexandre Keltchewsky, the Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana, said participants...
Amnesty International releases its 2010 human rights report
May 28, 2010By Elizabeth Lee There is still no scarcity of poverty and human degradation around the world. But Amnesty International says in its latest annual human rights report that people are being held accountable for some of the worst violations. "We...
March 19, 2010By Robert Coalson Reports of Russian police corruption and human rights abuses have been a daily occurrence for a long time now. The litany of outrages has become so ardent and so insistent that President Dmitry Medvedev has been forced to intervene...
Memorial calls on Medvedev to denounce Katyn as crime against humanity
March 06, 2010By Paul Goble On the 70th anniversary of Stalin’s decision to execute more than 21,000 Polish officers at Katyn and other places, the Memorial human rights group has urged Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to denounce that action as a crime against...
Thousands of Russians seek asylum in EU, Ukraine
March 05, 2010More than 5,000 Russian citizens sought political asylum in the European Union in the third quarter of 2009, more than from any other country, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. According to European Statistics Agency data, the largest single category...
US Helsinki Commission challenges Moldovan PM on confronting antisemitism
January 22, 2010By Andrew F. Tully Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat has appeared before the Helsinki Commission, a U.S. agency that monitors human rights worldwide, during his first visit to Washington as premier. In his speech on January 21, Filat discussed the...
EU's Eastern Partnership stuck in low gear
December 08, 2009By Ahto Lobjakas The EU's Eastern Partnership was launched with great fanfare in Prague in May. But just past the eight-month mark, it is becoming clear that neither the EU nor the six partnership members have high hopes for the grouping. EU documents...
Where walls still stand-20th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall
November 04, 2009Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, leaders of the U.S. Helsinki Commission said Wednesday the U.S. must lead the fight against modern tools of repression and consistently raise human rights concerns. Standing in front of the largest piece...
Situation in Moldova discussed at CoE-EU high-level meeting
October 29, 2009The 29th Quadripartite meeting between the Council of Europe and the European Union was held in Luxembourg on Tuesday at the invitation of the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It was attended, on the European Union side, by Ms...
US Planning to Treat Russia as It Did the USSR
October 14, 2009By Paul Goble The Obama Administration “has decided to conduct its relations with [the Russian Federation] just as it did with the Soviet Union,” an approach that reflects Washington’s judgment that “in the near future, Russia...
