RUSSIAN HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCE CENTER “SUTYAJNIK” ANNOUNCES MAJOR FUNDING OF INNOVATIVE PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 

The ten year old Human Rights Resource Center “Sutyajnik”, located in the Urals city of Ekaterinburg, Russia (www.sutyajnik.ru), announces that it has received major grants from the European Commission (Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights), the MacArthur  Foundation, and the Open Society Institute (Budapest) to conduct innovate projects that promote Human Rights.

The grants will allow Sutyajnik to offer an 18 month program "The Practical School of Human Rights for Young Lawyers", create a Urals-Siberian coalition of Human Rights NGOs, train young attorneys in the fundamentals of Human Rights litigation in Russian courts and in the European Court of Human Rights, disseminate training and other Human Rights resources over the internet, and litigate Human Rights cases in Russian Courts as well as the European Court of Human Rights. 

Sutyajnik, working with its partner NGO Pravoboretz, will use this opportunity to incubate a corps of Russian Human Rights attorneys and NGOs that will seek to make the covenants of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and fundamental Freedoms a reality in Russia.

For more information please follow the links:

Internet Conference Center project supported by MacArthur Foundation >>>

Litigation of Human Rights Cases in the Higher Russian Courts (Constitutional and Supreme) and in the European Court of Human Rights project supported by the Open Society Institute (Budapest) >>>

Practical School of International Human Rights Protection for Young Lawyers project supported by the European Commission >>>