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Annual Report 2008 NETHERLANDS HELSINKI COMMITTEE ANNUAL REPORT 2008 This report was compiled by Claudia Sarti and Emma Oosten English Revision by Peter Morris Printing by Krips Repro Meppel P.O. Box 11717 2502 AS The Hague The Netherlands T +31 (0)70 - 3926700 F +31 (0)70 - 3926550 E [email protected] I www.nhc.nl CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................5 1. NHC OBJECTIVES ...................................................................................................9 2. ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2008...................................................11 2.1 NHC projects ................................................................................................. 11 2.2 Project highlights: results in 2008.................................................................. 12 2.2 Research, monitoring and lobbying ............................................................... 26 2.3 Security and Human Rights - a quarterly journal .......................................... 31 3. PORTRAITS: DONORS, EXPERTS AND LOCAL PARTNERS ......................33 3.1 Donor portrait ................................................................................................ 33 3.2 Expert portrait ................................................................................................ 37 3.3 Partner portrait ............................................................................................... 43 3.4 Column........................................................................................................... 46 4. INTERNAL ORGANIZATION...............................................................................51 4.1 Board.............................................................................................................. 51 4.2 Staff................................................................................................................ 52 4.3 Annual social report....................................................................................... 52 4.4 Finances ......................................................................................................... 52 5. APPENDICES...........................................................................................................57 Appendix I Netherlands Helsinki Committees: Background ............................ 57 Appendix II Projects of the Netherlands Helsinki Committee ........................... 59 Appendix III Donors ............................................................................................ 63 Appendix IV Human Rights in the Netherlands .................................................. 65 IN MEMORIAM JAN TER LAAK 1938 – 2009.......................................................85 POSTSCRIPT ................................................................................................................87 INTRODUCTION Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948, human rights standards and their implementation have undergone enormous developments. Today, all fields of society are influenced by the spirit of human rights. For the past twenty-two years, the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC) has promoted security, human rights, democracy and the rule of law through various activities in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) region, which spans from Vladivostok to Vancouver. This has proved to be an urgent and very needed task; in many parts of the OSCE region security, human rights, democracy and the rule of law cannot be taken for granted. Indeed, in a range of countries violent conflict and renewed dictatorship has had a very negative impact on human security, freedoms and dignity. This annual report of the NHC provides the reader with an insight into our work, and with an overview of the achievements during the year 2008. In 2008, Finland held the chairmanship of the OSCE with three objectives: continuity, coherence, and co-operation. The Finnish Chairman-in-Office appointed two Special Envoys. These Envoys assist the Chairman-in-Office with particularly challenging tasks; one was appointed for the issues in Central Asia and the Caucasus, and the other was concerned with election issues. Also, a new Head of Mission at the OSCE’s Georgia Mission was appointed. In December 2008, the Ministerial Council of the OSCE was held in Helsinki. As had happened for the past six years, the OSCE did not manage to come to a ministerial declaration about the construction of regional security. Still, various decisions were adopted at this meeting: concerning early education for Roma and Sinti, combating the trafficking of human beings, and also other decisions. The participating States also reached an agreement on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.1 At the beginning of 2008, elections in several countries led to turmoil in the OSCE region: in Georgia, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan the opposition claimed that the elections were not in accordance with the OSCE standards. In March, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) decided not to observe the presidential elections in Russia. Editor-in-chief Arie Bloed of the NHC quarterly Security and Human Rights concluded that “there is a great necessity to organize free and fair elections in all OSCE countries, but at the same time the OSCE’s main watchdog and assistance-provider (ODIHR) finds it increasingly difficult to implement its task.”2 In 2008, Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia. This historical decision was adopted by the Assembly of Kosovo on the 17th of February. This independence move was strongly opposed by Serbia, the Russian Federation, and several other countries, but the United States and a majority of the European Union (EU) countries recognized the new state.3 Polarized reactions among Kosovo Serbs and Kosovo Albanians were visible, but those clashes were not drastic. The decision to declare independence was 1 Nina Suomalainen, “Observation on an OSCE Chairmanship: Intentions, challenges and outcomes,” in: Security and Human Rights, Vol. 20, 2009, no. 1, pp. 19-24. 2 Arie Bloed, “Chronicle: Elections cause turmoil in OSCE region,” in: Security and Human Rights, Vol. 19, 2008, no. 2, p. 2. 3 Arie Bloed, “Chronicle: Elections cause turmoil in OSCE region,” in: Security and Human Rights, Vol. 19, 2008, no. 2, p. 3. 6 Netherlands Helsinki Committee followed by the fall of the Serbian government and growing tensions between the Serb authorities and the EU. In August, the armies of Georgia and the Russian Federation clashed with militants and with each other for control of South Ossetia. The conflict escalated into a five-day war between Georgia and the Russian Federation. The Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs Stubb, the Chairman-in-Office, and the EU Presidency, together sought an agreement between the two states. The OSCE observers had difficulties entering South Ossetia to monitor the humanitarian situation and even the High Commissioner on National Minorities was not allowed into the region.4 In the autumn, the experts from ODHIR and the High Commissioner on National Minorities entered the conflict region found that severe human violations had taken place during and after the conflict and the displacement was ongoing. The Russian Federation, which after the Georgian-Russian war recognized South Ossetia as an independent state, demanded a creation of a separate, fully mandated OSCE Mission in South Ossetia. An interview with Shorena Nazghaidze and Marina Chokheli from Union Article 42, the Georgian non- governmental organization with which the NHC cooperates in its human rights strategic litigation programme, covers this topic (see page 43). The year 2008 saw the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The NHC celebrated this anniversary in various ways. On 13 November 2008, it organized, in cooperation with the LOS Foundation (National Support Service for Undocumented People), a round-table conference on the rights of illegal persons in the policy of the European Union and the Netherlands. At this conference that was held in the House of Parliament in The Hague politicians, representatives of the various ministries, NGOs and scholars participated. The NHC was also one of the organizers of the Right Now Festival, which was held on 10 December 2008 aimed at raising awareness of human rights among young people. Chapter 2 contains more details concerning these events. On 18 December the NHC and others celebrated the 70th birthday of Jan ter Laak with a conference on Civic Diplomacy.5 Jan Ter Laak was involved with the NHC from its very beginning and his life was dedicated to improving human rights in many countries around the world. We are sorry to have to share with you the news of his sudden death on 12 March 2009. As member of the executive committee and senior advisor, Ter Laak was the driving force and the source of inspiration for many NHC activities. In the interest of conflict prevention and respect for human rights in Europe and beyond, he always aimed to establish a dialogue between governments, politicians and civil society. He provided great support for human rights activists and victims of human rights violations in inter alia the former Yugoslavia, Russia and Chechnya, Central Asia, and the Gulf Region. The NHC has lost both his tireless inspiration and a remarkable colleague and friend. The topic of the relation between religion and politics was discussed during the
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