 |
Support the alternative NGO report on the situation of racial discrimination in Russia
Îïóáëèêîâàíî 08.06.2008 The Russian anti-Discrimination initiative (RaDi) published an alternative report entitled “On the realization of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in the Russian Federation”.
The RaDi uniting such organizations as the Human Rights Centre “Memorial” (Alexander Osipov as the main author of the report), the Centre “SOVA”, the anti-Discrimination centre of the Saint Petersburg “Memorial”, the Foundation “For Civil Society” supported by the Centre for Development of Democracy and Human Rights, already submitted the report to the UN Committee for elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. The report will be reviewed together with the Russian governmental report at the end of July. On the basis of these reports and other disposable materials, the discussion with the Russian government delegation and the briefings of Russian and international NGOs the Committee will adopt its Concluding remarks and recommendations.
It is worth mentioning that 5 years ago the analogical report was issued by Russian NGOs. It was supported by more than 40 organizations, and this considerably contributed to accepting this report by the UN Committee as reflecting the viewpoint of a wide range of human rights organizations.
The Committee appreciated it as highly legitimate. «« advertisement »» |
|
|
|
ADVERTISEMENTS:
So, COP 14 (or, formally, the 14th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) is basically the same thing as the one that happened in Bali last December (hope you heard about it from the news). |
The Russian anti-Discrimination initiative (RaDi) published an alternative report entitled “On the realization of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in the Russian Federation”. |
The programme is carried out in two separate phases. The accepted participant undertakes to complete both phases. |
all advertisements ÍÎÂÎÑÒÈ:Russia and Georgia military involvement for quite short period of time had led to multiple victims among population and disastrous destructions on the territory of South Ossetia and Georgia. In these war crimes the guilt is owned to both sides – Georgia that had started military actions on South Ossetia territory, and Russia that had used such circumstances to invade Georgian territory. Both sides also guilty in nonselective use of fire, in use of heavy-weight ground arms and aviation in places of civilian population location, in that thousands inhabitants of South Ossetia and Georgia had become refugees. Neither one, nor the other side made no effective attempts for protection of local people living in the war conflict zone, supplied no safe evacuation from this territory. Consequently, both Russia and Georgia had lost the moral right to peacemaking in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. It is international interference that needed for the conflict to be resolved. Russia by acting, not in words, should pullout troops from Georgia. Russia and Georgia should pullout their troops from South Ossetia and Abkhazia, in both regions the armed forces should be replaced by the presence of peacemaking units of the UN. |
Human Rights Watch researchers in South Ossetia on August 12, 2008, saw ethnic Georgian villages still burning from fires set by South Ossetian militias, witnessed looting by the militias, and learned firsthand of the plight of ethnic Ossetian villagers who had fled Georgian soldiers during the Georgian-Russian conflict over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. |
For a few days already Russia is at war. A war which is going on on our behalf, but in breach both of the UN mandate and the Constitution of the Russian Federation. A war called a “peacemaking operation”, but leading to the death of civilians. A war that every new day is motivated with more and more lies and seeds more and more hatred. A war which is accompanied with inaction of the world’s intergovernmental organizations and mutual accusations of double standards. |
archive
|
|
