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November 9, 2009

Weekly news

News under the Program “Our Rights” ... Details (Russian)

 

September 1, 2009

The Legal Status of the Indigenous People from the North of the Khabarovsky Region: Regulatory Legal Acts Collection

Regional public organization Informational Law Center of Indigenous People of the North of Khabarovsky Krai "Mede-Center", implementing the project "Young People from the Priamurie: Our Rights Are Our Future!" under "Our Rights" Program releases The Legal Status of the Indigenous People from the North of the Khabarovsky Region: Regulatory Legal Acts Collection ... Collection (Adobe PDF Rus)

 

June 29, 2009

Advocacy Workshops

Over 100 representatives from the Khabarovsky and Primorsky Krais took part in Advocacy Workshops (mini-seminars) conducted on board “Vasily Poyarkov” ship on June 27-28, 2009 ... Details

 

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June 8, 2009

Our Rights Week

Take part in Our Rights week scheduled for September 2009, conducted in cooperation with the Information and Public Relations Department at the Governor and Khabarosky Region Government offices ... Details (Russian)

 

June 8, 2009

Mass media and Advocacy Contest

Timeframe to submit applications for participation in the Mass Media and Advocacy contest is extended up to June 30, 2009 ... Details (Russian)

 

May 18, 2009

The interim results of the “Our Rights” Program issued in English

The interim results of the “Our Rights” Program are issued in the English language for the English-speaking partners. The brochure covers the activities implemented by advocacy organizations and advocacy groups under the “Our Rights” Program during 2006-2008 ... Details (Adobe PDF)

 

March 27, 2009

Legal rights awareness roundtable for representatives from the indigenous people communities in the Russian Far East

On March 27, 2009, a roundtable “Role of the indigenous communities in the sustainable development of the territory they occupy” was held under the National Communities Leaders Retraining program. The roundtable was held by the Natural Resources Ministry ... Details

 

March 26, 2009

Meeting with USAID representative and participation in “Radio Together” Festival

Natalia Stashchuk, Project Management Assistant in the USAID Department of Democratic Initiatives, visited MSI representative office in Khabarovsk on March 26, 2009 and met “Our Rights” program and “Initiative Plus” employees ... Details

 

March 26, 2009

Roundtable “Right to preschool education and ways to realize it in the Primorsky krai and Vladivostok”

On March 25, 2009 a roundtable “Right to preschool education and ways to realize it in the Primorsky krai and Vladivostok” was held in Vladivostok, at the Primorye Hotel conference-hall (Posyetskaya St., 20). More than 20 people took part in the event ... Details

 

March 10, 2009

“Our Rights” Program partners took part in a mini-conference “Management and PR under present-day conditions: trust against crisis”

On March 4 and 5 “Our Rights” Program partners took part in a mini-conference “Management and PR under present-day conditions: trust against crisis” which was held by the “Green House” resource center in Khabarovsk and the Center for Non-Governmental Organizations Development in Saint-Petersburg under “Strengthening public support for Non-governmental organizations” thanks to financial support of US Agency for International Development. All the 76 participants got a copy of the “Our Rights” information bulletin and one-page brief information covering the Program activities and results (for March 1, 2009) ... Details

 

March 2, 2009

Newsletter of John Beyrle, the U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Dear Friends,
I would like to share with you the latest edition of my electronic newsletter, both in Russian and English. I would very much welcome your comments and suggestions about the newsletter and about what I and the Embassy are doing ... Details

 

November 26, 2008

Civil society organizations and local government of Primoriye support the development of private businesses together

Businesses of Primorsky Krai received new tools and legislative bases to ensure state support of business activities ... Details

 

November 20, 2008

Training “Advocacy NGOs’ Sustainability”

Management Systems International (MSI) and Our Rights Program invite you to participate in two-day training “Advocacy NGOs’ Sustainability”
December 16-17, 2008 Vladivostok (for grantees and other advocacy groups)
December 18 -19. 2008 Khabarovsk (for the Khabarovsky krai representatives) ... Details (Russian)

 

November 13, 2008

Presentation “Grant Contest “Our Rights: know how to advocate”

17 people participated in Grant writing seminar, held in Khabarovsk in November, 11 ... Details (Russian)

 

November 12, 2008

Publications and radio reports on the results of Journalist meeting in Vladivostok

The Primorsky krai radio broadcasted the program of journalist N.G.Orlova dedicated to the social activists’ investigations of budgetary processes in Artyom city. Zolotoy Rog newspaper published Natalia Vlasenko’ article “Budgetary levelling as a political instrument for pressing on head of the province” The appearance of those media products became possible as a result of the seminar on methods of municipal budget analysis conducted by L. A. Kavun, the Primorsky Advocacy center Director, in November, 7 ... Details (Russian)

 

November 5, 2008

Grant Writing Seminar in Khabarovsk and Vladivostok

NGO representatives and advocacy groups are welcomed to visit Grant Writing Seminar and to study the detailed terms of participation in a new grant contest of “Our Rights” Program. Khabarovsk November 11, 2008 10:00 74, Turgenev St., American Corner (near Chocolate cafe),
Vladivostok November 13, 2008 11:00 197, flat 79-80, Svetlanskaya St., ISAR office ... Details

 

October 31, 2008

Training for Journalists in Vladivostok

Training for Journalists in Vladivostok Methods of Budget Analysis, Vladivostok, Place: Public organization Resource Center ISAR-DV Address: 197-79,Svetlanskaya St. Start: 1 p.m. ... Details (Russian)

 

October 21, 2008

The first part of “Advocacy Best Practices Guide”

The first part of “Advocacy Best Practices Guide” was published. It contains advocacy practices realized under MSI/“Our Rights” Program ... Details

 

October 14, 2008

Grant Contest Announcement

A new small grant contest of projects on legal awareness in the Khabarovkiy and the Primorskiy krais is announced under the “Our Rights” Program ... Details (Russian)

 

October 3, 2008

Vladivostok government officials and citizens work together to create a development plan for public self-government territorial institutions (STI)

During a roundtable in Vladivostok, the Mayor of Vladivostok with other authorities agreed to form a commission on the proposal development of the STI Regulations and simplification of the STI borders establishment process. The City Administration representatives, deputies of the Duma, and representatives of NGOs, who have been actively encouraging the population to engage in the development process of the local territories, became members of the commission. As part of Our Rights Program, the communication among the public, the local administration and businesses, necessary for the reform of the communal and housing services (ZhKH) and local self-government, is improving. The proposals prepared and submitted by the residents of Vladivostok demonstrated that they are prepared to announce 2009-2012 as the period of the STI development, according to the Concep and the Program for development and support of the STI ... Details

 

October 1, 2008

Public initiatives reform practices of the Artyom’s government

The experts of Primorie Public Advocacy Center (PPAC) were successful in their advocacy effort resulted in the Artyom City Duma’s institutionalizing a new practice of public scrutiny of the draft decisions. From now on experts from PPAC will be requested by the Duma to review all draft resolutions before they are officially enacted. In addition, the Duma invited Ms. Larisa A. Kavun, the head of the PPAC, to join the Commission responsible for the review of resolutions on local and regional levels. This is one of the examples of the successes by PPAC ... Details

 

September 22, 2008

Preventing illegal actions of the public service provider and Luchegorsk town administration

Organization OKO and the Public Council of Private Estate Owners of Luchegorsk (PCPEOL) actively engaged in the project “Our Rights”. As a result of their work, the Primorsk Federal Antimonopoly Administration (PFAA) recognized public concerns and submitted a legal claim to revoke the decision made by the Luchegorsk Mayo, Pozharsky municipal area of Primorski Territory ¹ 97 from 12.10.2007 "About the Order from a Single Service Provider” ... Details

 

September 18, 2008

“Our Rights” Program Recent Newsletter

Recent “Our Rights” Program Newsletter has been published ... Newsletter (PDF 7196 KB Russian)

 

September 8, 2008

The work of natural healers in Khabarovsk region is protected by law

Thanks to the initiatives of the Khabarovsk Public Advocacy Center (PAC), implemented as part of Our Rights project, the natural healers of Khabarovskiy krai receive legal support to practice traditional medicine ... Details

 

September 3, 2008

Business repartition in Luchegorsk being in progress

Corporate raid in household area. How residents can protect their rights? Why local authorities are not willing to create facilitative conditions for self-administration community and equal opportunities for housing and communal service enterprises? These and other questions were discussed during the round table ... Details (Russian)

 

August 27, 2008

Second NGO Forum - NGO is valuable resource of social and economic development of Khabarovsk region

In October 23-24, 2008 Second NGO Forum will be held in KHabarovsk ... Details (Russian)

 

July 31, 2008

Seminar “Advocacy through participation of citizens in self-government and collaboration with authorities”

Inviting you to participate in the Seminar “Advocacy through participation of citizens in self-government and collaboration with authorities” Seminar will be conducted under the Program “Our rights” and financial support of USAID in Khabarovsk and Vladivostok at the end of September 2008. Trainers: M. Savva (Krasnodar), N. Polichka (Khbarovsk) ... Details (Russian)

 

July 23, 2008

Public organizations of khabarovsk search for the ways of improving citizens’ trust to NGO

In July 23, 2008 Roundtable “The ways of improving citizens’ trust and support of NGO” under the Program “Consolidation of public support of NGO in the Khabarovskiy krai” (USAID, ASI, Center for NGO Development, Fund Creation) was conducted in the Far-Eastern State Scientific Library. 23 representatives of technical support programs “Our Rights”, “Municipal Community Alliances Program”, “Leader”, non-governmental organizations, mass media and scientific and students’ communities took part in the discussion. Government institutions interested in successful activity of NGO were represented by A.N. Fomin, consultant of Ministry of Economic and Foreign Affairs, L.I. Latysheva and N.V. Luzina, specialists of Regional Office of Federal Drug Control Service (Department of cross-sectoral interaction in drug prevention) ... Details

 

July 16, 2008

Primorsky Krai Entrepreneurs Successfully Advocate To Remove Administrative Barriers

Not until long ago, one of the biggest barriers to business development in Vladivostok was unreasonable fines imposed on the local entrepreneurs. Members of the Nonprofit Partnership The League of Trading Businessmen monitored the administrative commission’s activities and decision-making under the Transparency and Knowledge Are Ways of Protection project implemented under MSI ‘Our Right’ program with financial support from USAID ... Details

 

April 23, 2008

Advocacy center in the Primorskiy krai started functioning

Advocacy Centre under the Program “Our Rights” for assistance to organizations and citizens of the Primorskiy krai founded in April 1, 2008 ... Details

 

April 23, 2008

Opening of Advocacy Centre in the Khabarovskiy krai

Advocacy Centre (further Center) for support of organizations and initiative civil groups and lobbying in the Khabarovsk krai founded by nongovernmental partnership “Far-Eastern legal resources” under the Program “Our Rights” in April 1, 2008 ... Details

 

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