#ourRAREpeople are at #RightsForum24 in Vienna at Europe’s largest human rights event this year. Katarzyna Batko-Tołuć Thomas Lohninger NL Helsinki Committee Hungarian Helsinki Committee Hertie School HR Cities Network Election-Watch.EU

#Programmes 🧩 EPD’s ‘Virtual insanity’ programme was a journey! 🛣️ The result? A roadmap lighting the way to EU #OnlinePoliticalAdvertising and #Transparency legislation. 📣 Ready to discover more successful democracy programmes? ➡️bit.ly/3NyAaBS

📰Read the de Volkskrant interview with François Heisbourg, who also reflected on EU-Ukraine relations at our recent #REKA symposium with RAAM – op Rusland, Oekraïne en Belarus OpenDoorUkraine.NL 👉nhc.nl/reflections-on…

Today in Vienna HRHF & NL Helsinki Committee co-hosts “A Human Rights Tour of the OSCE Region”. 20 civil society representatives from 7 countries including from the Network of #HumanRightsHouses give a series of briefings for the representatives of OSCE States and institutions.

#Netherlands saw regression in checks and balances: Stakeholder consultation criticized, proposed bills threaten independent organisations, peaceful assembly rights at risk & police use of force alarming. There were no European Commission's recommendations in last year's report. /16

On the 7th and 8th of March, the NHC hosted a two-day Criminal Justice Crossover Training held in as part of the the European Penitentiary Training Academies Network (EPTA) to strengthen #criminaljustice systems in Europe. Read more here: nhc.nl/criminal-justi…

🇰🇬More than 30 civil society organisations from different countries call on President Садыр Жапаров / Sadyr Japarov to veto draft law on ''foreign representatives'' for the benefit of his country & its people: iphronline.org/articles/kyrgy… перхоть на корнишоне MFA Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 Жогорку Кеңеш

⚖️ Civil society organisations call on President of the Kyrgyz Republic to veto the draft law on “foreign representatives’’ and #support for Kyrgyzstan’s civil society 📣 Read the full statement: nhc.nl/open-letter-ci…

📣 Read our joint statement together with 37 other #CSOs under the umbrella of the EPD - European Partnership for Democracy on the European Commission's #RuleofLaw report.

📢Seeking #Armenian-English #interpreter for simultaneous interpretation on 18 April at World Congress on Probation and Parole in The Hague. 👉Apply with daily rates to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. ⤵️More info: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

As a member of the Coaliation Against SLAPPs in Europe, the NHC welcomes the latest Council of Europe recommendation on #SLAPPs. The Recommendation is comprehensive and, if genuinely implemented, could significantly limit the damage caused by SLAPPs: bit.ly/3VPjcny

Today is Maria Kalesnikava's birthday. For the 4th year, she has to mark her birthday in jail. She has been held incommunicado for over a year now. Sign the petition on libereco.org/petition for the release of political prisoners in Belarus. #FreeMaria #WeStandBYyou

Kom ook naar ons debat over het EU-uitbreidingsproces in de Westelijke Balkan met Nederlandse kandidaten voor het Europees Parlement! Aanmelding en verdere info via foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl/agenda/ep-verk… i.s.m PAX voor vrede NL Helsinki Committee Free Press Unlimited Mladi BiH

⏰Last day to sign up for our webinar tomorrow on #EULaw4CivicFreedoms, hosted by ECNL and NL Helsinki Committee ⤵️

Apply now👉Our #MATRA #RuleOfLaw training is open for applications for all 🇷🇸 civil servants and government officials! Training is taking place online from 16 to 27 September, and in person in 🇳🇱 from 7 to 18 October. Apply before 31 July 2024, 12:00❗ 👉 t.ly/aLeF3

👏300 commitments to support civil society! ⏰With the #EUelections2024 approaching, we call on all candidates to sign our #CivilSocietyForEU pledge for better civic space & civil dialogue in the EU! 🇪🇺 👉 bit.ly/46SJNSE

We proudly congratulate all #ourRAREpeople who just graduated from RARE’s second cohort in 2022-2024👏🏻 We mark an important milestone on our journey to forge a strong and skilled community of European human rights defenders. Onward and upward!