Non-Profit Partnership “Lawyers for a Civil Society”
$50,000
To maintain and expand its publicly accessible online database of federal and regional laws that regulate NGOs and their interactions with authorities. The organization will develop draft legislation to strengthen cooperation between civil society and government and will provide free online consultations for NGOs throughout Russia on legislation pertaining to NGO-government cooperation. The organization will add a new feedback component to its website to help answer questions from authorities on working with NGOs.
Media Lawyers Collegium
$27,008
To prepare twelve issues of the Mass Media Legislative Journal, which provides Russia’s media community with timely and reliable information relating to media law. The publication focuses on legislation, news about legal actions against media, accounts of incidents of harassment and intimidation against journalists, and practical advice for media workers about how to deal with these problems.
Nonviolence International
$50,000
To develop dialogue between local authorities and youth in the Republic of Dagestan. The organization will continue to partner with Dagestan-based NGO “Alternative to Violence” to provide local insight, and assist in program implementation and monitoring. The organization will hold seminars at five Dagestani universities, conduct workshops on issues affecting youth, support the implementation of community initiatives, and prepare policy documents and hold consultations on regional youth policies with local and federal officials.
Ozersk City Socio-Ecological Public Organization “Planet of Hopes”
$45,852
To stem widespread abuses of human rights in Russia’s closed cities, or ZATOs. The project will involve research, lobbying, teacher training, and public information campaigns in Ozersk and nearby cities. Planet of Hopes will organize mobile legal reception centers in other small towns and villages in the Ozersk area, prepare and submit cases to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, and publish its own small-circulation newspaper.
Perm City Public Organization “Center for Civic Education and Human Rights”
$55,000
To improve the teaching of human rights and civic education in Russia’s schools and universities. The Center will hold its annual Human Rights Olympiad for students in Perm oblast, organize educational seminars for graduates of the Center for Civic Education and teachers in rural Russia, and further develop its national teacher training seminar for the development of human rights curricula. The Center will maintain a blog and conduct an internet campaign to increase youth activism.
Pskov Regional Public Organization “Council of Soldiers’ Mothers”
$21,692
To conduct human rights training and consultations for approximately 1,000 draftees, draft-age youth, servicemen, and their families in Pskov oblast. The organization will hold seminars, publish a bulletin, and provide individual consultations.
Regional Civic Institute Research and Information Center Memorial
$55,000
To organize, preserve, and digitize the Center’s physical archives documenting political repression during the Soviet era. The Center will purchase a server and additional hosted-server space for its database, through which entries will be accessible by direct content searches and macro-tags. Memorial will also lead a two-day seminar for nine partner organizations in the Memorial Network to train them in the use of its custom-designed proprietary database software and archival techniques.
Regional Civic Organization in Defense of Democratic Rights and Liberties “GOLOS”
$65,000
To carry out a detailed analysis of the autumn 2010 and spring 2011 election cycles in Russia, which will include press monitoring, monitoring of political agitation, activity of electoral commissions, and other aspects of the application of electoral legislation in the long-term run-up to the elections. GOLOS will hold local and national press conferences and publish reports on its findings, as well as provide detailed methodological advice to its monitors and other monitoring agencies.
Regional Human Rights Public Organization “Niiso”
$23,623
To conduct three seminars and training sessions for at least 20 selectively chosen students aimed at raising civic awareness and engagement among the youth of Chechnya. Topics will include human rights, civic activism and tolerance. Activities will include theoretical lectures, brainstorming, practical exercises and small-scale initiatives to be completed by the students to help them develop skills to defend their own interests and those of others and actively agitate for human rights.
International Protection Center
$50,000
To offer free legal representation and consultation to the victims of human rights violations in Russia. The Center will help individuals who have exhausted all available remedies under the Russian court system to pursue their cases through the European Court of Human Rights or the United Nations’ Committee on Human Rights.
Chechen Committee for National Salvation
$75,000
To promote adherence to the rule of law, especially as it applies to refugees and forced migrants in Ingushetia and Chechnya. To monitor abuses against refugees in Ingushetia and Chechnya, provide legal assistance to victims of abuse, and publicize its findings.
Independent Council of Legal Expertise
$50,000
To perform activities related to the Russian legal system and the development of legislation through nongovernmental efforts. The Council will continue to monitor legislative developments in the State Duma and regional legislatures, provide legal assistance to human rights organizations and media personnel, and publish commentary on significant pieces of draft legislation and their relation to constitutional and international norms. The Council will also hold regular roundtables and seminars, help students with human rights work, and publish legal education material.
Information Research Center ‘PANORAMA
$65,000
To improve communication between deputies of regional administrations, their peers, and constituents. Panorama will work with five to ten deputies from regional councils to gather their opinions on pending financial reform measures, communal housing law, possible improvements to public service delivery, and improving public access to information on legislative initiatives. In addition, Panorama will continue to work with youth, training them in the fundamentals of journalism.
Moscow Group of Assistance in the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords
$50,000
To draw greater attention to the issue of freedom of assembly in Russia and to the “Strategy 31” movement, which seeks to protect this fundamental right. The organization will train a network of regional activists and coordinate their activities through mini-seminars and field visits, and conduct an information campaign through press conferences, posters, and educational handouts pertaining to freedom of assembly, to be distributed to the general public by regional partners.
Moscow Group of Assistance in the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords
$55,000
To reduce the prevalence of torture and other forms of abuse in prison through support of a prison monitoring system in seven pilot regions of the Russian Federation; to present recommendations based on this effort to the federal government; and to promote international standards of prison management and monitoring.
Regional Civic Initiative – The Right to Life and Human Dignity
$47,000
To publish its journal, The Caucasian Independent Cultural and Historical Magazine DOSH. Four Russian-language issues of DOSH and two English-language digests will be published with reporting from correspondents throughout the North Caucasus covering regional issues, including the consequences of war, human rights abuses, the role of women, and federal policies affecting the North Caucasus. The organization will also conduct three training courses to improve the professional qualifications and skills of its editorial staff.
Regional Public Organization for Assistance in Observance of Human Rights “Hot Line”
$65,810
To draw greater attention to human rights abuses through legal aid and outreach programs. This program will seek to improve the treatment of prisoners who are incarcerated in Russia’s system of prisons and penal colonies. The organization will investigate violations of prisoners’ rights, bring legal measures and public pressure to decrease the occurrence of such violations, and hold public tribunals to review particularly egregious cases.
Center for Public Information (CPI)
$60,000
To continue building a network of regional partners that gather and disseminate information about human rights. CPI collects updates from NGOs, the media and the Russian Human Rights Ombudsman’s office on human rights violations, activities of activists, and events organized by other NGOs. CPI then prepares press releases for Russian and foreign media outlets, NGOs and government agencies. CPI also disseminates information bulletins of other Russian organizations to its distribution network.
Information and Analysis Center ‘SOVA’
$70,000
To monitor the press and extremist groups for instances of xenophobia, racism and intolerance. SOVA will publish reports and lead educational and mentoring activities to encourage democratic and antifascist activists, and the general population, to oppose xenophobia in Russia. SOVA will coordinate and advance the efforts of experts, journalists, activists and law enforcement officials to secure effective enforcement of existing laws and to prevent the restriction of civil liberties in the name of anti-extremism.
Rostov City Nonprofit Organization “Eko-logika”
$25,000
To help citizens engage the local bureaucracy to increase transparency and accountability. Eko-Logika will organize training seminars to teach participants how to request information from local government sources and will continue to operate its resource center, which provides the necessary office equipment and consultative support needed to submit such requests.
Rostov Regional Public Organization “League for Civil Rights Protection”
$40,000
To encourage transparency and accountability in the municipal budgeting processes. The project will involve four components: an education component to train local activists and administrators on cooperative budget oversight; an evaluation component consisting of a survey of the public’s perception of corruption in the regional administration; an analytical component, in which local activists will hold public hearings to discuss the city’s budget; and an information component to present the results of the project to the media and public.
Russian-Chechen Friendship Society
$49,980
To expand and develop a web site that publishes the book An International Tribunal for Chechnya. The two volume study documents human rights abuses during the two Chechen Wars and argues that several incidents constitute war crimes within the meaning of the Geneva Convention.
St. Petersburg Human Rights Public Organization “League of Women Voters”
$45,000
To support the activities of small NGOs in six regions in northwest Russia: Arkhangelsk, Vyborg, Kaliningrad, Pskov, Tver and St. Petersburg. The organization will conduct a series of online seminars, in-person training sessions, and discussion clubs to educate and train representatives of unregistered NGOs and civic initiative groups in organizational capacity building skills. The organization will also provide free legal consultations to civic activists.
St. Petersburg Public Organization “Environmental Human Rights Center ‘Bellona’”
$49,720
To increase access to information about Russian human rights and environmental issues, and to encourage networking among NGOs. Bellona will maintain its website,
www.bellona.ru a valuable source of independent information for the NGO community, the media and the general public.
Soldiers’ Mothers of St. Petersburg
$85,000
To conduct its Human Rights School, and other workshops, for thousands of draft-age youth and conscripts. The organization will also continue to maintain a database on draftees and servicemen in order to track cases of human rights abuse at military bases across Russia, and will continue to develop and improve its interactive website to provide legal information and advice to draftees, servicemen, and their families.
Sverdlovsk Oblast Public Organization “Parity”
$30,984
To increase youth advocacy programs in Sverdlovsk oblast, specifically those dealing with youth labor rights. Parity will conduct a sociological survey to determine the nature of labor rights violations in Sverdlovsk oblast. Using the survey information, Parity will develop a variety of informational materials on labor rights issues, which will be distributed through its partners, public events, and website. Finally, Parity will implement a consultation program, which will include both one-on-one and electronic consultation sessions.
Vladimir Oblast Intellectual Public Movement “Lebed”
$45,570
To support its independent news and opinion website “Vibor33.” Two full-time correspondents will cover current events in Vladimir oblast and update the website daily. Lebed will also host four public forums for site users to discuss pressing regional issues and will work with partners to develop a more sophisticated interactive website interface. Lebed will work with local academics, politicians, entrepreneurs, and social activists to increase the number of blogs hosted on its site.
Yaroslavl Regional Public Organization in support of Civic Initiatives “Dialog”
$24,000
To increase participation of young people in social and political life in Yaroslavl oblast. The organization will select four secondary schools in which to hold informational seminars on topics including student government, leadership training, communications strategies, and volunteer initiatives. The organization will also develop student councils in these schools, publish two informational brochures, conduct study trips to the Yaroslavl Oblast Duma, sponsor four youth-oriented community projects, and operate a youth-leadership camp.
The grant listings posted here are from the 2010 Annual Report, published in August 2011.
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