The humanitarian crisis that we have been witnessing for the past three months on the Polish-Belarusian border (as well as on Belarus’ borders with Latvia and Lithuania) is unpreced-ented in Europe. No country has ever attempted what is people smuggling on such a large scale. Orchestrating migration has become the Belarusian regime’s...
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Nobel Lecture given by Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2021 Dmitry Muratov, Oslo, 10 December 2021. Antidote against tyranny Honorable members of the Nobel Committee, honorable guests! On the morning of October 8, I received a phone call from my mother. She wondered how things were going. -Well, Mom, we’ve got the Nobel Prize … -That’s nice...
The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) has given its Human Rights Award 2021 to four Belarussian lawyers. The organisation is also granting an exceptional award as to all endangered lawyers in Afghanistan. It says that the four Belarussian lawyers – Lilya Vlasova, Maksim Znak, Dmitry Laevski and Leanid Sudalenko – have...
Join us in honouring the six regional winners of the 2021 Front Line Defenders Award at an online ceremony on 9 December at 10 AM (GMT)*. On the occasion of the International Human Rights Defenders Day, this event will celebrate the work and resilience of six courageous human rights defenders. The ceremony is available in English, French, Arabic...
Voluntary National Review (VNR) is a process through which countries assess and present progress made in achieving the global goals and the pledge to leave no one behind. The purpose of VNRs is to present a snapshot of where the country stands in SDG implementation, with a view to help accelerate progress through experience sharing, peer-learning...
Every year on 10 December, the world celebrates Human Rights Day, the very day when, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration consists of a preamble and 30 articles that set out a broad range of fundamental human rights and freedoms to which all of us, everywhere around the...
The President of Ukraine has imposed sanctions on employees of the Russian special services Thursday. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy published a decree which would impose sanctions on 28 employees, 23 of who are Russian citizens and 5 who are Ukraine. The decree will ban them from using their assets in the country. It will also cover transferring...
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- Иностранцам и апатридам
- методички для мигрантов
- миграционное право
- Научные исследования в области миграции / миграциология
Refugee Policy — Europe and its Borders
Основатель и руководитель берлинского Института изучения миграционных процессов и вопросов безопасности Мехтильд Бауманн: Институт изучения миграционных процессов и вопросов...
UN Human Rights’ headquarters in Geneva, Palais Wilson, one of the city’s historical landmarks, was lit up in purple on 19 August 2021 to mark the start of a global, 10-year campaign to empower people with disabilities and advance their human rights. Purple is the international colour for disability. People with disabilities represent 15 per...
August 2021 1. In the wake of the withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan, there has been a rapid deterioration in the security and human rights situation in large parts of the country.1The Taliban has taken control of a rapidly increasing number of districts, with their advance accelerating in August 2021, to capture 26 out of 34 of...
