Helsinki Committee for Human Rights

Last updated

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
Predecessor International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
Legal status Non-governmental organization
Focus Human rights
Region served
Europe, Central Asia, North America
Methods Advocacy

Helsinki Committees for Human Rights exist in many European countries (and in the wider OSCE region) as volunteer, non-profit organizations devoted to the protection of human rights. It was presumably named after the Helsinki Accords. It was formerly organized into the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF), based in Vienna.

Contents

History

The Helsinki Committees began as Helsinki Watch groups. The first one was founded in the Soviet Union in 1976, the second in 1977 in Czechoslovakia, the third in 1979 in Poland. In 1982, representatives of several of these committees held an International Citizens Helsinki Watch Conference and founded the IHF.

In 1992, a British Helsinki Human Rights Group was established in the UK, but this group was always completely independent of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. The UK's official representative in the IHF is the British Helsinki Subcommittee of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group, established in 1976.

Country organizations

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations</span> European regulatory agency umbrella organization for state telecommunications and postal services

The European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) was established on June 26, 1959, by nineteen European states in Montreux, Switzerland, as a coordinating body for European state telecommunications and postal organizations. The acronym comes from the French version of its name Conférence européenne des administrations des postes et des télécommunications.

Europe, the westernmost portion of Eurasia, is often divided into regions and subregions based on geographical, cultural or historical factors. Since there is no universal agreement on Europe's regional composition, the placement of individual countries may vary based on criteria being used. For instance, the Balkans is a distinct geographical region within Europe, but individual countries may alternatively be grouped into South-eastern Europe or Southern Europe.

The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) was a self-governing group of non-governmental organizations that acted to protect human rights throughout Europe, North America and Central Asia. A specific primary goal was to monitor compliance with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Final Act and its follow-up documents.

South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is a regional non-governmental, non-profit network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in Southeast, South, East and Central Europe. The organization aims to create a bridge between international media activities and the media developments in the region. It has headquarters and national committees in several countries. In total 33 member states or territories are included in SEEMO: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Ukraine and Uzbekistan

As a member of FIFA and UEFA, the Montenegro national football team has been playing official matches since March 2007. Montenegro plays in the qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championship, as well as partaking in the UEFA Nations League. Apart from that, the team participates in friendly matches.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2003 World Wrestling Championships</span>

The following is the final results of the 2003 World Wrestling Championships. The Freestyle Competition was held in New York City, United States, while the Greco-Roman Competition was held in Créteil, France.

East-Central Europe is the region between German-, Hungarian-, and West Slavic-speaking Europe and the East Slavic countries of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. Those lands are described as situated "between two": "between two worlds, between two stages, between two futures".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2008 European Cup (athletics)</span>

The 29th and final SPAR European Cup took place in June 2008. Track and field events were held on 21 and 22 June 2008 at the Parc des Sports Stadium in Annecy, France. Other event venues included Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa in Portugal and facilities in Istanbul, Turkey, Kadriorg Stadium in Estonia and SNP Stadium in Slovakia, and facilities in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The Parc des Sports Annecy Stadium was also stadium for 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was the last edition of the European Cup which from 2009 has been replaced by European Team Championships combining the men and women competitions.

This is a list of foreign football players in Ukrainian Vyscha Liha/Premier-Liha by clubs. The players written with bold text have at least one cap for their national team.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Romania national football team results (2000–2019)</span>

This is a list of the Romania national football team results from 2000 to 2019:

The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cupqualification for the FIBA Europe region, began in August 2017 and concluded in February 2019. Contrary to previous years, no teams were automatically placed into the World Cup, so all FIBA Europe nations had to participate in qualification.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">EuroBasket 2022 qualification</span> Qualification for the EuroBasket 2022

The EuroBasket 2022 qualification was a basketball competition that was played from November 2017 to February 2021, to determine the 20 FIBA Europe nations who would join the automatically qualified co-hosts Czech Republic, Georgia, Italy, and Germany at the EuroBasket 2022 finals tournament.

The Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC) is a non-governmental organization that promotes human rights and strengthens the rule of law and democracy in all countries of Europe, and the Central Asian countries participating in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

This page describes the qualification procedure for FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2021. 14 teams joined the co-hosts France and Spain.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lithuania national football team results (1990–2019)</span> Lithuania national football team

The Lithuania national football team represents Lithuania in association football and is controlled by the Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF), the governing body of the sport in the country.

This is a list of the Ukraine national under-21 football team results from 1992 to 2009.

The EuroBasket Women 2023 qualification was held from November 2021 to February 2023 to decide the 14 teams to join the co-hosts Israel and Slovenia. It featured 38 teams split in ten groups of three or four teams. The ten group winners and the four best second-ranked teams qualified for the final tournament.

References

  1. Albanian Helsinki Committee www.ahc.org.al
  2. Albanian Helsinki Committee 11 May 2012, www.civicsolidarity.org, accessed 18 June 2022
  3. Sigrid Rausing Trust: Grantee profile: Albanian Helsinki Committee www.sigrid-rausing-trust.org, accessed 18 June 2022
  4. "Helsinki Committee of Armenia". civicsolidarity.org. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  5. "Rights groups raided as Belarus pursues crackdown". France24. 14 July 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  6. "Bulgarian Helsinki Committee Sends Open Letter to DW - Novinite.com - Sofia News Agency". www.novinite.com. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  7. Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in the Republic of Macedonia mhc.org.mk
  8. Polish Helsinki Foundation website www.hfhr.pl
  9. Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Romania the Helsinki Committee www.apador.org
  10. Turkmenistan Helsinki Foundation website www.tmhelsinki.org