The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found that Russia violated Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) – which prohibits torture and inhuman and degrading treatment – by illegally and secretly taking part in the kidnapping...
ECRE’s Russian Member, Memorial Centre for Human Rights, along with its sister organisation, the Committee for Civic Assistance, have come under increased pressure this week from government authorities following the draconian legislation on NGOs adopted last year. The...
26 April 2013 Five years of EU negotiations to try to improve and harmonise the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers across the EU are drawing to an end this week, as the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) has endorsed the text of the recast...
Enforcement of a Russian law to monitor NGOs that engage in advocacy work and receive funding sources from outside Russia has resulted in raids on NGOs, including Amnesty International, ECRE member Memorial Human Rights Centre, its sister organisation Civic Assistance...
The European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) and Memorial Human Rights Centre, a member of ECRE, have lodged this week an application to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to contest the recently adopted Russian law that establishes that any NGO engaging...
