Local Slovaks and The Roma Population |
HITS: 17694 | 12-05-2010, 18:54 | Comments: (0) | Categories: Slovakia , Political science | |
As pointed out, unemployment among ordinary Slovaks in the east of the country is also high. Although there is little evidence of inter community tension, people are, albeit mutedly, critical of the Roma regarding them as lazy, unreliable and untrustworthy. While the Slovak press adopts a responsible line on the subject, their correspondence columns often seethe with anger over what readers consider to be favouritism shown to Roma asking why “they” can’t have fewer children and clean up their act.[1] Their critics point out that Roma lie when they say they have to steal because they can’t afford to buy food alleging that most of the goods stolen were drink and cigarettes and that they get into debt due to the shark like interest rates imposed on them by local money lenders. |
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British Helsinki Human Rights Group (BHHRG) |
HITS: 11330 | 6-01-2009, 19:19 | Comments: (0) | Categories: About BHHRG | |
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Black Roses - Georgia's Reformers Fall Out |
HITS: 31054 | 20-02-2008, 05:03 | Comments: (0) | Categories: Georgia , Political leaders | |
Exactly four years after the so-called Rose Revolution, the two key leaders of Georgia's People Power revolution are at each other's throats. “Georgia has made stunning progress in carrying out substantial economic, judicial and state reforms… that should allow Georgia to become a prosperous liberal market economy and a fully-fledged democracy governed by human rights and the rule of law. Georgia has set an example for the whole region and beyond.” " The style of Saakashvili’s governance … has made dishonesty, injustice and oppression a way of life. Everyday repression, demolition of houses and churches, robbery, ‘kulakization’, and murders, I would stress, murders, have become common practice for the authorities.” On Friday 2nd November, 2007, the centre of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, was occupied a huge crowd demanding the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili.[3] It was exactly four years since Saakashvili had cried foul about Georgia’s parliamentary elections and set in train the protests which brought him to power on 23rd November, 2003. |
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Troubles in Transnistria: Why not a referendum to decide the issue? |
HITS: 13276 | 19-02-2008, 15:39 | Comments: (0) | Categories: Moldova , PR and human rights, World health | |
The West and its surrogate agencies have shown themselves resolutely uninterested in the conduct of elections in Transnistria.
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Sex and the Peacekeepers, or the �Who, Whom?� of Human Trafficking |
HITS: 9745 | 19-02-2008, 15:30 | Comments: (0) | Categories: Moldova , PR and human rights, Analyzing | |
Any adult knows that it takes two for prostitution to exist. There must be a client as well as a whore. Forced prostitution requires three participants: the passive women, the man who pays, and the pimp who cashes in on his girl’s subjection to another man’s desires. Prostitution, forced or voluntary, depends as with any other product, legal or illicit, for demand to foster supply. Where is the market for sex slaves from Moldova, Ukraine or even Transnistria? |
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Moldova � the failed state as pro-Western model |
HITS: 12725 | 19-02-2008, 15:14 | Comments: (0) | Categories: Moldova , Political science, Political leaders | |
The economic and social implosion of Moldova since 1991 is routinely blamed on Transnistria but according to all the Western reform models promoting “shock therapy” the loss of the heavily industrial part of the country should have been pure gain for the rest of Moldova. According to the post-Communist market dogmatists industry was a handicap to prosperity and the sooner smokestacks ceased to pollute the higher the standard of living would be. |
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Transnistria 2006 |
HITS: 9896 | 19-02-2008, 15:07 | Comments: (0) | Categories: Moldova , Political science | |
On 3rd March, 2006, the Ukrainian customs authorities suddenly implemented a new system of control along the 310 mile-long border (c. 5000 km) with the internationally-unrecognised republic of Transnistria (PMR). The Ukrainians announced that henceforth they would only permit goods bearing official customs stamps from the Republic of Moldova to enter Ukraine or to transit across its territory. Until 3rd March, the Ukrainian customs had accepted PMR’s customs stamps as validating goods for import into Ukraine or for transit across its territory. |
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Is the West helping to thaw or re-ignite a "frozen conflict"? |
HITS: 9464 | 19-02-2008, 14:15 | Comments: (0) | Categories: Moldova , PR and human rights, Analyzing | |
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Armenia Parliamentary Elections Briefing |
HITS: 9901 | 22-08-2007, 04:00 | Comments: (0) | Categories: Armenia, Elections | |
Sandwiched between Iran and Turkey close to the trans-Caucasus oil pipeline, Armenia is at a sensitive geostrategic crossroads. Will Parliamentary elections trigger another colour-coded revolution? Parliamentary Elections Briefing Even before Armenians went to the polls on 12th May, 2007, for parliamentary elections, the political atmosphere had become heated with accusations from the opposition and allied NGOs that the government was planning to rig the outcome while the government accused opposition leaders of treasonable behaviour. A week before the vote, the police arrested the last foreign minister of the former President Levon Ter-Petrossian accusing him of money-laundering, while the opposition countered that a prominent pro-government party leader and magnate was buying votes by funding charitable activities. Threats of mass demonstrations against President Robert Kocharian if his parliamentary allies won the elections – as opinion polls predicted – raised the spectre of another “People Power” revolution in the former Soviet Union. |
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Kosovo 2002: Guantanamo bay in the Balkans |
HITS: 9715 | 13-03-2007, 08:19 | Comments: (0) | Categories: Serbia , Analyzing, War and peace | |
This report was first published in January, 2002. Nearly, four years later, the issue of CIA renditions to European countries where suspects are possibly tortured is being investigated. As Le Monde quoted BHHRG's 2002 report in an article published on 25th November, June: "<…> "prison secrète" américaine a existé dans un camp de l'OTAN au Kosovo ... existence" we are reprinting the report. Also, published is BHHRG's Mark Almond's February, 2002 New Statesman article "Nightmare at Camp Bondsteel". Introduction The international community, which governs the former Yugoslav province of Kosovo and Bosnia & Herzegovina, bases its legitimacy on the concept of the rule of law. On 12th February 2002, indeed, the trial began in The Hague of the former Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic. This trial is intended to embody the way in which the international community is working towards the realization of the rule of law in the Balkans in particular and in international affairs on a global scale. |
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