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Latvian Human Rights Committee
Latvian Human Rights Committee ( lv, Latvijas Cilvēktiesību komiteja, russian: Латвийский комитет по правам человека) is a non-governmental human rights organization in Latvia. It is a member of international human rights and anti-racism NGOs FIDH, AEDH. Co-chairpersons of LHRC are Vladimir Buzayev and . According to the authors of the study "Ethnopolitics in Latvia", former CBSS Commissioner on Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Ole Espersen "had visited LHRC various times and had used mostly the data of that organisation in his views on Latvia". History In 1992, LHRC was founded (as the Latvian Human Rights and International Humanitarian Co-operation Committee) by a group of people co-operating since 1990, led by Tatjana Ždanoka and Vladimir Bogdanov. In 1995, LHRC joined FIDH and was registered by Latvian authorities. Since 1994, LHRC periodically publishes an updated list of differences in rights between citizens and non-citizens of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Buzayev
Vladimir Viktorovich Buzayev (russian: Влади́мир Ви́кторович Буза́ев, lv, Vladimirs Buzajevs; born October 8, 1951 in Zhukovka, Bryansk Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Latvian Russian politician and Member of the 8th and 9th Saeima from For Human Rights in United Latvia. Member of Latvian Human Rights Committee since 1993 and its co-chairman since 2012, Candidate degree in hydrogeology. Biography 1982 he has defended a Candidate thesis in hydrogeology. 1989 — elected to Riga Council of People's Deputies (till 1994). 1993 — participation in foundation of Equal Rights party. 1994–2001 — co-chairman of Latvian Human Rights Committee. 1998–2001 — MP assistant. 2000 — Buzayev becomes naturalized citizen of Latvia. 2001 — Buzayev is elected to Riga City Council and becomes chairman of Equal Rights party (until 2007). 2002 — elected to 8th Saeima (Parliament) where he had become the most active speaker. 2006 — elected to 9th Saeima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Rights Committee
The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a treaty body composed of 18 experts, established by a 1966 human rights treaty, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The Committee meets for three four-week sessions per year to consider the periodic reports submitted by the 173 States parties to the ICCPR on their compliance with the treaty, and any individual petitions concerning the 116 States parties to the ICCPR's First Optional Protocol. The Committee is one of ten UN human rights treaty bodies, each responsible for overseeing the implementation of a particular treaty. The UN Human Rights Committee should not be confused with the more high-profile UN Human Rights Council (HRC), or the predecessor of the HRC, the UN Commission on Human Rights. Whereas the Human Rights Council (since June 2006) and the Commission on Human Rights (before that date) are ''UN political bodies:'' composed of states, established by a UN General Assembly resolution and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Rights Organisations Based In Latvia
Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, and language. Humans are highly social and tend to live in complex social structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families and kinship networks to political states. Social interactions between humans have established a wide variety of values, social norms, and rituals, which bolster human society. Its intelligence and its desire to understand and influence the environment and to explain and manipulate phenomena have motivated humanity's development of science, philosophy, mythology, religion, and other fields of study. Although some scientists equate the term ''humans'' with all members of the genus ''Homo'', in common usage, it generally refers to ''Homo sapiens'', the only extant member. Anatomically modern hum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrejeva V
Andreyev (russian: Андреев) is a common Russian surname. It derives from Andrei, the Russian form of "Andrew", making it roughly equivalent to " Andrews" or "Anderson". The name is also sometimes spelled Andreev, Andreeff, or Andrejew. Its feminine form is Andreyeva (russian: Андреевa), which is also sometimes spelled Andreeva. Mentions of the surname may refer to: A *Andrejewa de Skilondz, or Adelaide von Skilondz (1880–1969), Russian opera soprano singer and singing teacher *André Andrejew (1887–1967), French-Russian production designer, a classic of the film decor building * Alexander F. Andreev (born 1939), Russian physicist * Andrew Andreyev (born 1972), Australian lawyer * Andrey Andreyev (politician) (1895–1971), Soviet politician, Politburo member under Stalin * Anatole Andrejew (born 1914), French scientist, biochemist of Russian origin * Adrian Andreev (born 2001), professional Bulgarian tennis player *Andrey Andreev (born 1974), Russian-British e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ECtHR
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR or ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights. The court hears applications alleging that a contracting state has breached one or more of the human rights enumerated in the Convention or its optional protocols to which a member state is a party. The European Convention on Human Rights is also referred to by the initials "ECHR". The court is based in Strasbourg, France. An application can be lodged by an individual, a group of individuals, or one or more of the other contracting states. Aside from judgments, the court can also issue advisory opinions. The convention was adopted within the context of the Council of Europe, and all of its 46 member states are contracting parties to the convention. Russia, having been expelled from the Council of Europe as of 16 March 2022, ceased to be a party to the convention with effect from 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legal Information Centre For Human Rights
Legal Information Centre for Human Rights is a non-governmental organisation based in Estonia, according to Hanne-Margret Birckenbach, is "particularly involved in promoting the concerns of Russian-speaking inhabitants and with outstanding contacts to West European research institutes", which "is considered as one of the few attempts in Estonia to develop competence in the understanding of human rights issues, whereas Estonian judges or the legal education system, for instance, have remained uninterested". It participates at the EU FRA's Fundamental Rights Platform and is FRA's RAXEN focus group for Estonia, is member of AEDH and ENAR as well as supports UNITED network. Its sponsors include the European Commission, Tallinn city, and the British, Russian, Norwegian, US, and Dutch embassies. In 2009, the Estonian Internal Security Service has published statements on the centre's director Semjonov, claiming that: Amnesty International evaluated these statements in the followi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIDH
The International Federation for Human Rights (french: Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l'homme; FIDH) is a non-governmental federation for human rights organizations. Founded in 1922, FIDH is the third oldest international human rights organization worldwide after Anti-Slavery International and Save the Children. As of 2016, the organization is made up of 184 members including ''Ligue des droits de l'homme'' in over 100 countries. FIDH is nonpartisan, nonsectarian, and independent of any government. Its core mandate is to promote respect for all the rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. FIDH coordinates and supports collaborations with intergovernmental organizations. Overview FIDH was established in 1922, when it united ten national organizations. It is now a federation of 178 human rights organizations in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UNITED For Intercultural Action
UNITED for Intercultural Action is a European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees, in which over 560 organisations from 48 European countries cooperate. UNITED was founded in 1992 (officially registered as charitable organisation under Dutch law in 1993) and provides a forum for active solidarity and cooperation between a wide variety of organisations in Europe and their activists across European borders. UNITED defines itself as pan-European tool to strengthen and cross-link grassroots organisations and their actions to improve their socio-political impact. The idea of the UNITED network was born by participants of two anti-racist European youth seminars in Strasbourg in 1992. At these occasions, the need for a European-wide info- and networking system was expressed against the background of the most violent and massive xenophobic riots that took place in Germany after the Second World War: the riot of Rostock-Lichtenhagen Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-citizens (Latvia)
Non-citizens or Aliens ( lv, nepilsoņi) in Latvian law are individuals who are not citizens of Latvia or any other country, but who, in accordance with the Latvian law "Regarding the status of citizens of the former USSR who possess neither Latvian nor other citizenship", have the right to a non-citizen passport issued by the Latvian government as well as other specific rights. Approximately two thirds of them are ethnic Russians, followed by Belarusians, Ukrainians, Poles, and Lithuanians.Population of Latvia by ethnicity and nationality; Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs 2021 The non-citizens are "citizens of the former USSR (...) who reside in the Republic of Latvia as well as who are in temporary abse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
