INVITATION TO A SIDE EVENT
at PACE autumn session in Strasbourg, 8 October 2018
Shrinking space for Civil Society
and Persecution of Human Rights Activists
On Monday, October 8th, 13:00 to 14:00, Room 10 in Palais de l’Europe, the Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety invites you to a side event, sponsored by Ms. Olena Sotnyk, (Ukraine, ALDE), Rapporteur on the restrictions of the NGO activities (PACE, Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee), with support of INGO Conference of the Council of Europe.
This side event will focus on the last developments in already very known cases of persecution of human rights defenders and journalists in the Council of Europe member states (Azerbaijan, Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Poland and Hungary).
The side event will discuss the cases of Afgan MUKHTARLI, Mehman HUSEYNOV, Intigam ALIYEV, Lyudmyla KOZLOVSKA, Oleg SENTSOV, Oyub TITIEV and Yuri DMITRIEV.
Protection of human rights accomplished by these prominent human rights defenders required an enabling environment for all NGOs which today is no longer existing in all Council of Europe member states.
Moderator :
Mr. Simon Matthijssen
Chair of the HR Committee of the Conference of INGOs
Speakers:
1) Ms. Anna Rurka,
President of the Conference of the INGOs of the Council of Europe;
2) Mr. Emin Huseynov,
Executive director of the Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety;
3) Ms. Lyudmyla Kozlovska,
President of the Open Dialogue Foundation;
4) Mr. Grégory Thuan Dit Dieudonne,
Former Senior Lawyer at the ECHR,
President of the “Human Rights” Commission of the European Lawyers’ Union;
5) Mr. Yuri Dzhibladze,
representative of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum
Concluding remarks will be presented by Ms. Olena Sotnyk,
Rapporteur on restrictions on NGO activities,
PACE Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee.
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