Human Rights Council to the Russian President

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The Human Rights Council at the Russian President ( Russian Совет при Президенте Российской Федерации по развитию гражданского общества и правам человека , scientific. Transliteration Sovet pri Prezidente Rossijskoj Federatsii po razvitiju graždanskogo obščestva i pravam čeloveka ) is an institution of the President of the Russian Federation in an advisory capacity.

The Human Rights Council was passed by then President Vladimir Putin on November 6, 2004 with the Presidential Decree № 1417.

aims

The Human Rights Council should submit proposals to improve the protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens, inform them about the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms and analyze the legislation. The council is also supposed to coordinate the activities of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in Russia .

history

In 2006, the Human Rights Council initiated the Civil G8-2006 project in cooperation with forty Russian non-governmental organizations during Russia's G8 presidency.

In April 2009, the newly elected President Dmitry Medvedev met with the Human Rights Council for the first time. It was decided to set up a working group to reform NGO legislation in Russia. On April 5, 2010, the law № 40 in support of non-governmental organizations was passed, which explicitly calls on the authorities to support the NGOs. At the same meeting, the President decided to revitalize the Government Commission on Migration Policy, which started its work in October 2009. It is supposed to help the 300,000 people who only have Soviet citizenship and are stateless in today's Russia. A corresponding bill has been introduced to the State Duma, the Federation Council and the Citizenship Committee.

In November 2012 the number of members was increased to 63 (from 39) and 18 working groups were formed.

Since 2012 at the latest, the real influence of the council on the politics of the president and the Russian administration has to be assessed as insignificant, even if the members are looking for concrete proposals to improve the situation in critical areas, e.g. B. the penal system.

In January 2014, he demanded an examination of the legality of the actions of the network operators who, with the exclusion of the independent television broadcaster Doschd, performed the function of censors .

In May 2014, the Human Rights Council published a report on the referendum on the status of Crimea , in which it spoke of election fraud.

At the end of October 2017, a meeting was shortened so that the president could appear at the opening of a memorial. Three out of a total of six votes at the President’s human rights meeting in October 2017 complained about the hatred in society that was fueled by the propaganda. The council will be reorganized in 2018 and, according to Leonid Nikitinsky, could lose even more of its modest influence if the presidential administration wants it.

At the beginning of May 2018, the council wanted the law enforcement authorities to answer why the demonstrations of May 5, 2018 had scenes of violence exactly where members of the National Liberation Movement or Cossacks were present, and about their cooperation with authorities.

At the beginning of June 2018, a request was made to the council asking for more detailed information on the destruction of Gulag files, and at the beginning of December 2018, the prison conditions and torture in the prisons were discussed. The Human Rights Council also addressed torture in connection with young men from an alleged "network" who were arrested in 2017/2018, but who in 2020 were sentenced to between 6 and 18 years of strict imprisonment as alleged terrorists.

By decree of the president of October 21, 2019, several critical members of the council were excluded, especially those who had advocated statements by the body on the questionable criminal proceedings of the protests in summer 2019, whereupon another member voluntarily went. The previous chairman, Fedotov, was replaced at the chairmanship by journalist Valery Alexandrovich Fadeev "for reasons of age". The co-chairman of Golos spoke of a "bleeding out" of the committee and called the changes "ridiculous".

Members

The Human Rights Council consisted at times of 63 members who were active in 18 working groups. The Secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists , Mikhail Fedotov , replaced the chairwoman Ella Alexandrovna Pamfilova, who resigned at the end of July 2010 . He also retained the position in early December 2018 while the council had 51 members. In 2019, although 30 members of the council wanted to remain, he was replaced as chairman by a decree by Vladimir Putin "for reasons of age". His successor was Valeri Alexandrovich Fadeev .

  • Tatiana Merzljakowa from 2019
  • Alexander Tochenov from 2019
  • Kirill Valeryevich Wyschinski, journalist at RIA, from 2019

Tatyana Nikolaevna Moskalkova takes part in the meetings as the Federation's human rights commissioner.

former members

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Presidential Decree of November 6, 2004 № 1417 . Rossiyskaya gaseta. November 12, 2004. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
  2. ^ Civil G8: Civil G8 . Civil G8. 2006. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
  3. ↑ Svetlana Gannushkina: worry CMedwedjews instructions . taz. May 19, 2010. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
  4. ↑ The public prosecutor's office found no extremism in Doschd , lenta.ru, January 31, 2014
  5. ↑ Crimean referendum heavily falsified
  6. ^ Meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights
  7. ^ Meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights on October 30, 2017 on the website of the President of Russia
  8. ^ Leonid Nikitinsky: On the road with Putin , Novaya Gazeta, October 31, 2017
  9. ↑ The Human Rights Council decided to investigate the role of the Cossacks and the NOD in suppressing the opposition action on May 5 , Novaya Gazeta, May 7, 2018
  10. ↑ Террор снимают с архивного учета (German: "Terror will be removed from the archive"), Kommersant , June 8, 2018.
  11. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l rotation, no reform , Novaya Gazeta, December 4, 2018
  12. ↑ a b Role-play in the forest, confessions under torture: Young men are sentenced to high sentences in Russia as alleged terrorists , NZZ, February 11, 2020
  13. ^ The «Network» , WOZ, May 23, 2019
  14. ↑ Left activists sentenced to long imprisonment , DW, February 10, 2020
  15. ^ A b Critics Warn Of A Backslide After Putin Reshuffles Human Rights Council , rferl, October 22, 2019
  16. ↑ Putin Pushes Critical Voices Out Of Russia's Human Rights Council , rferl, October 21, 2019
  17. ↑ a b c d "Rochade" , Novaya Gazeta, October 23, 2019
  18. ↑ a b c d e f g Fedotow remains an expert in the Human Rights Council , Kommersant, October 22, 2019
  19. ↑ a b The Kremlin Tames its Advisory Committee on Human Rights , NZZ, October 22, 2019
  20. ↑ The Human Rights Council has set up working groups ( memento of the original from November 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / russland.ru
  21. ↑ Composition of the Human Rights Council (Russian)
  22. ↑ Human rights advisor is on Focus Online , last accessed on August 7, 2010
  23. ↑ Human Rights Council confirmed to the President in its new composition ( memento of the original from May 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 11/12/2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / russland.ru
  24. ↑ Центр развития демократии и прав человека , employee profile ( memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.demokratia.ru
  25. ^ RIA Novosti: Mikhail Fedotov becomes presidential adviser and head of the Human Rights Council . RIA Novosti. October 12, 2010. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
  26. ↑ Kaljapin: Fight Against Torture Don't Give Up , dw, June 10, 2015
  27. ↑ https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2018/12/08/78869-pamyati-lyudmily-alekseevoy She wanted us to be free, Novaya Gazeta, December 8, 2018
  28. ↑ Svetlana Sorokina