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Supporting human rights in today’s Russia: the role of NGOs

19 Mar 2009

Discussion with Anna Sevortian, Deputy Director of the Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights (Moscow, Russia)

Venue: Library of the Multicultural Center Prague, Palace Lucerna, Vodičkova 36, Prague 1
Time: Monday 30 March 2009, 18.00
Language: English
Moderator: Darima Batorova

Anna Sevortian is an expert on civil society development, media freedom and human rights in Russia. Currently she is the Deputy Director of the Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights (Moscow, Russia) where she has been leading a series of educational and activists efforts in the field of migration and combating xenophobia. She has been involved in a number of civil society and human rights initiatives by different national and international institutions.

In 2007-2008 Anna received a Chevening Award for conducting a research project ‘Russian NGOs and their relationship with the state, 1995-2007: Identifying models and mechanisms for the retention of independence’. In 2007-2008 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge, and an Affiliated Researcher at School of Public Policy, University College London. Her research interests are currently focused at the state and non-state actors’ relations and channels of political communication in emerging democracies.

Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights is a  Russian independent non-governmental organization. Its mission is the development of effective democratic institutions and the creation of sustainable mechanisms for human rights protection in Russia. It provides professional expertise in public policy issues, runs professional full-scale public advocacy campaigns, provides essential training, consulting and information services to civil society organizations and community groups and effectively combines a broad range of advocacy, educational, consulting and analytical instruments in order to sustain the building of democratic institutions, a stable civil society, and the promotion of human rights.  The Center cooperates with a wide range of international and Russian organisations. To find out more visit: www.demokratia.ru.