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The handbook The Ombudsman Institution in Europe and Bulgaria presents the recently adopted ombudsman legislation, offers an updated review of both the general and specific aspects of the European countries’ experience, the initiatives and documents of the Council of Europe referring to the establishment by the Member States of ombudsman institutions on national, regional and local level and the cooperation between the ombudsmen of the Member States and between them and the Council of Europe, and contains information on the legal framework and the activities of the European Ombudsman as a mechanism for protecting human rights on European Union level.
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CEAS plan za unapređenje stanja sistema bezbednosti u Srbiji sa posebnim osvrtom na zaštitu Ustavom zagarantovanih osnovnih ljudskih prava: prava na privatnost i zaštitu podataka.
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Over the last year, three major crises – Côte d’Ivoire, Libya and Syria – tested Europe’s ability to shape decision-making at the UN. The crisis in Côte d’Ivoire showed that China could be persuaded to support democracy and that Russia by itself lacked the leverage to hold up the Security Council indefinitely. The Libyan debate demonstrated the persistence of Western power in the UN system, even though the EU split over how to act. Ironically, although Europe was more united over Syria, this failed to translate into action as the non-Western powers reasserted themselves. Support for European positions on hu-man rights votes in the General Assembly stayed roughly level, but the EU also won important votes about gay rights and its own status as a bloc at the UN. // The picture of the UN that emerges from these events is one of an institution in flux. While the UN has recently seemed to be drifting into bloc politics, this year coalitions formed on a crisis-by-crisis basis. This may foreshadow the emergence of an increasingly multipolar UN dominated by fluid diplomatic alliances. Although it sometimes struggles to maintain its own unity, the EU now has opportunities to build coalitions of states that can deliver action on human rights and crisis management – if it can overcome its own internal divisions.
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The European Union (EU) is suffering a slow-motion crisis at the United Nations (UN). The problem is not a lack of internal cohesion, which has improved markedly since the nadir of the Iraq War. The problem is fading power to set the rules of the game. The EU’s members insist that the UN is central to their vision of international order and universal human rights – but the UN is increasingly being shaped by China, Russia and their allies. This paradox has come to the fore in 2008 as the EU has tried to work through the UN on Burma and Zimbabwe, yet been unable to get Security Council resolutions for action. These defeats come on top of previous setbacks for the EU at the UN in cases from Kosovo to Darfur. This is partially due to geopolitical shifts. But this report shows that the EU has also been the architect of its own misfortune. Europe has lost ground because of a reluctance to use its leverage, and a tendency to look inwards – with 1,000 coordination meetings in New York alone each year – rather than talk to others. It is also weakened by a failure to address flaws in its reputation as a leader on human rights and multilateralism. If Europe can no longer win support at the UN for international action on human rights and justice, overriding national sovereignty in extreme cases, it will have been defeated over one of its deepest convictions about international politics as a whole. This is particularly true in cases involving the Responsibility to Protect against genocide and mass atrocities, when the humanitarian consequences of inaction are most severe.
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This unique report by the European Roma Rights Centre provides compelling evidence that, throughout several States and regions where safe water supply and sanitation services are available to almost every household, Roma populations are systemically disadvantaged in their access to these services. Evidences gathered from Albania to France reveal shocking disparities of the conditions endured by Roma as compared to the rest of the population. In this respect, the report’s conclusions highlight a concerning situation of widespread, deeply rooted social exclusion and ethnic discrimination regarding Roma’s access to these essential services.
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Like French president Emmanuel Macron, leaders across the EU are looking for a fast, effective and humane asylum system; a system which determines quickly, but thoroughly, who needs protection; creates disincentives for people to get into boats; and manages to return those who are found not to need protection within a short period of time. || The question is how to make this happen. One place to look to for concrete inspiration is the Netherlands. There most asylum claims are decided within less than two months including appeals in a procedure fully respecting the rights of refugees. Asylum seekers are supported from the beginning by a lawyer paid for by the state and can state their claim in at least two comprehensive interviews.
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Like French president Emmanuel Macron, leaders across the EU are looking for a fast, effective and humane asylum system; a system which determines quickly, but thoroughly, who needs protection; creates disincentives for people to get into boats; and manages to return those who are found not to need protection within a short period of time. || The question is how to make this happen. One place to look to for concrete inspiration is the Netherlands. There most asylum claims are decided within less than two months including appeals in a procedure fully respecting the rights of refugees. Asylum seekers are supported from the beginning by a lawyer paid for by the state and can state their claim in at least two comprehensive interviews.
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This paper has one simple purpose: it is an appeal to European institutions to improve their reporting on what is actually happening on Lesbos, Chios, and other Greek islands. The information that is needed to assess the implementation of the EU-Turkey agreement is straightforward and should be presented in a weekly update. The fact that this does not exist yet is troubling. It raises the possibility that European institutions do not have this information. It also suggests that the implementation of the EU-Turkey agreement is not proceeding as foreseen, and that the EU support mission to Greece resembles a vessel sailing in the dark, without instruments, without a captain, which might hit a rock at any moment.
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This report was prepared based on the results of the work of experts from the Belarusian Helsinki Committee (Belarus), the FORB Initiative Legal Association (Belarus), and the Human Constant Consulting Center on Current International Practices and Their Implementation in Human Law (Belarus). Center for Expertise in the Field of Equal Rights (Lithuania).
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This concept was developed by experts of the Belarusian Network for Equality and Non-Discrimination, which, in particular, includes: RPOO "Belarusian Helsinki Committee". Human Rights Education Office (Office for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities), Forb Initiative, Initiative Group "Identity and law. The concept is presented for wide discussion by all stakeholders and is aimed at drawing attention to the problem of the lack of comprehensive integrated anti-discrimination legislation in the Republic of Belarus.
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The 2008 global financial crisis resulted in economic challenges in the EU, one of which was a boom of youth unemployment. In response to the increase of youth unemployment, the EU designed the Youth Guarantee (YG), a scheme guaranteeing that every EU citizen between the ages of 15-24 who is out of employment, training and education, would receive support in finding temporary work, continuing education and practical training. With the initiation of the YG, the EU set expectations that every EU member state would implement the YG by introducing respective measures. In Bulgaria, a great portion of the YG target group are Roma youth. This publication reports on the results of research assessing the uptake of the YG among Roma youth in Bulgaria and offers recommendations to relevant stakeholders for the enhancement of such uptake.
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This six-volume book series titled “Refugee Crisis in International Politics” are prepared with the aim of clarifying the above-mentioned issues and enriching the content, context, and depth to the field of science. “States must protect all migrants against violence based on racism and xenophobia, exploitation, and forced labor. Migrants should not be detained without legitimate reasons or forcefully send back to their home country. States must take responsibility for and fulfill these responsibilities meticulously for refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants to be able to rebuild their lives safely against serious dangers. Sharing responsibility for global problems is fair in the 21st century”.
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Upon request by the LIBE committee, this study examines the reasons why the Dublin system of allocation of responsibility for asylum seekers does not work effectively from the viewpoint of Member States or asylum-seekers. It argues that as long as it is based on the use of coercion against asylum seekers, it cannot serve as an effective tool to address existing imbalances in the allocation of responsibilities among Member States. The EU is faced with two substantial challenges: first, how to prevent unsafe journeys and risks to the lives of people seeking international protection in the EU; and secondly, how to organise the distribution of related responsibilities and costs among the Member States. This study addresses these issues with recommendations aimed at resolving current practical, legal and policy problems.
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This publication presents the proceedings of the ConScienS Conference on Science and Society held on September 28-29, 2020. The conference is organized by the ConScienS Research Center in partnership with the Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS). The main theme of this conference was Pandemics and their impact on Society.
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Ne pišem nikakav dnevnik, nemam dobre savete za naredne dane, nikakve sudbonosne ili ohrabrujuće misli, ništa od toga. Verujem da poprilično mediokritetski prolazim kroz ovaj period: loša koncentracija, u potrazi za odgovorima, čitanje između redova, histerija, tuga, paranoja… pa novi krug. Loše spavam, loša sam i kad sam budna, ali ništa vredno pomena. Kad pogledam kako su nas sa svih strana prignječili, i nisam tako loše. Eto, da znate.
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Priručnik za rad na prevenciji i prevazilaženju diskriminacije za mlade i učenike “Za školu bez diskriminacije!” nastao je u okviru projekta 360° Pun krug za ljudska prava, koji uz podršku Evropske unije realizuje Centar za građansko obrazovanje (CGO), u partnerstvu sa NVO Alternativna teatarska kompanija (ATAK) iz Podgorice, Kućom ljudskih prava iz Zagreba i Međunarodnim festivalom dokumentarnog filma (BELDOCS) iz Beograda, a u saradnji sa Ministarstvom prosvjete i institucijom Zaštitnika ljudskih prava i sloboda Crne Gore. Jedan od specifičnih ciljeva projekta je promocija koncepta obrazovanja bez diskriminacije u formalnom obrazovno-vaspitnom sistemu i razvoj antidiskriminacione i kulture ljudskih prava među mladima. Zato je ovaj priručnik namijenjen mladima i učenicima kako bi im bio od pomoći u prepoznavanju, prevenciji i procesuiranju slučajeva diskriminacije, drugih kršenja ljudskih prava i nasilja unutar školskih ustanova i pred institucijama van obrazovnog sistema. U priručniku su detaljno pojašnjeni pojmovi diskriminacije i njenih različitih manifestacija, uloge i odgovornosti učesnika vaspitno-obrazovnog procesa, a dat je i kratak pregled institucionalnog okvira koji štiti od diskriminacije i kršenja ljudskih prava, uz postupak procesuiranja slučajeva unutar i van školskog sistema. Krajnji cilj priručnika “Za školu bez diskriminacije!” je da pruži podršku mladima da aktivno učestvuju u zaštiti vlastitih prava, prevenciji diskriminacije i kršenja prava drugih, kao i u zagovaranju i promociji kulture ljudskih prava u školskoj i lokalnoj sredini.
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The talk of human rights, whether in politics, science, or arts, sometimes comes across as a moving tale that the humankind tells while tucking itself to sleep, murmuring it almost by hearth, terrifying and inspiring itself in turns by the wickedness of monsters and the revolts of the brave. Lulling itself, every time, by the certainty of the happy end and the inevitability of progress. And yet if we had learned anything on our laborious trudge towards full awareness of the inalienability of human dignity, it is that there is nothing certain or inevitable about this path, and that falling behind is much easier than forging ahead. Have we watched carefully enough, do we remember enough of those times when we traded the humanity of others for own comfort, when we surrendered the victims instead of sheltering them, when we choose not to see the camps and not to remember places of suffering? How did we understand humanity then? Who counted as human and who did not? And what were we playing at, refusing responsibility? We would like to have left far behind and long ago the obstinate ghosts of fascism, slavery, poverty, exploitation, disease, and war. Maybe would could have done so, but we did not. They are our present too, and our reality. This is what the films of the ninth selection of the FAST FORWARD 2018 Human Rights Film Festival are telling us, each in its own way. These films are not afraid: with courage and imagination they cut to the quick of social injustices, mock the powerful and dream aloud. Films that fight and in which people fight. Is it enough to just watch and remember? Of course not, but this minimal entreaty already lifts the thin alibi of ignorance and represents, perhaps, the first step towards accountability.
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Early summer days of 2020 in Vienna sow marking the anniversary of Nuremberg Trials with the conference “From the Victory Day to Corona Disarray: 75 years of Europe’s Collective Security and Human Rights System – Legacy of Antifascism for the Common Pan-European Future”. This was the first public and probably the largest conference in Europe past the early spring lockdown. It gathered numerous speakers and audience physically in the venue while many others attended online.
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