In his speech to the European Roma and Travellers Forum, the Secretary General stressed the importance of Roma empowerment and urged the forum to be “proactive” and mobilise the “experience of Roma organisations to propose and encourage measures and policies that are effective and make a real difference.”
Further reforms in Russia will advance the country’s “momentum for change,” according to the Parliamentary Assembly’s Monitoring Committee.
The Secretary General, Jean-Claude Mignon, President of the Parliamentary Assembly and human rights commissioner Nils Muižnieks are united in their concern at Azerbaijan’s decision to pardon and honour Ramil Safarov, convicted of the murder of an Armenian officer
The case concerns the restricting of Youssef Moustafa Nada’s cross-border movement and the addition of his name to a list annexed to a federal Ordinance, in the context of the implementation by Switzerland of United Nations Security Council counter-terrorism.
resolutions.
The Commissioner for Human Rights describes these internally displaced persons (IDPs) as a 2.8 million strong “lost generation” which is “utterly powerless, surviving but not really existing.”
