Southern Russia starts creating Centre for Human Rights Monitoring and Protection

Participants of the interregional conference "Human rights and international relations in Northern Caucasus" held on May 24 in Pyatigorsk have adopted a resolution to create the Centre for Human Rights Monitoring and Protection in Southern Russia. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The interregional conference "Human rights and international relations in Northern Caucasus" organized by the "Yabloko" Party, was attended by about 70 members of the party-organizer, human rights defenders, NGOs, teachers of institutions of higher education, lawyers and media representatives from the Rostov Region, the Stavropol and Krasnodar Territories, the Republics of Kalmykia, North Ossetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, and Chechnya.

Representatives of all regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and the Southern Federal District (SFD), who attended the conference, expressed their desire to take part in the work of the Centre for Human Rights Monitoring and Protection.

"The task of this newly created human rights institution will include monitoring the situation with human rights violations in Southern Russia and developing measures of public response," the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Anatoly Sidakov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Mir Kavkazu" (Peace to the Caucasus).

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