05 February 2004, 21:09

NGO legal experts and practicing lawyers meet at workshop

The Pyatigorsk NGO Faith, Hope, and Love, which provides legal aid to refugees, is conducting a workshop on February 5 and 6, with the financial help of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and in cooperation with the Independent Expert Legal Council and the Chamber of Lawyers of Stavropol Territory. The workshop is titled "New Laws "On the Citizenship in the Russian Federation", "On Legal Position of Foreign Citizens on the Territory of the Russian Federation" and their application. Urgent Questions of Housing, Pension and Administrative Legislation of the Russian Federation."

The workshop is aimed at making contacts between NGO legal experts and practicing lawyers, and raising their educational level.

Judges of the Stavropol Regional Court, the president and members of the Chamber of Lawyers of Stavropol Territory, representatives of international organizations, NGO legal experts, and government officials are taking part in the workshop.

They are to discuss the pension reform, procedures of filing complaints with the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the law on the citizenship and so on.

Author: Egor Egorov Source: REGIONS.RU Regional News Agency

All news
НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ООО “МЕМО”, ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ООО “МЕМО”.

January 09, 2025 23:17

  • Lawyers: court in Chechnya violates Musaeva’s right to defence

    A notification of an advocate an hour and a half before the start of the hearing at the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya, which left Zarema Musaeva in custody in the case on disorganization of the activities of the penal colony, violated the equality of the parties and the defendant’s right to defence.

January 09, 2025 22:56

January 09, 2025 22:46

  • Family of escaped Dagestani Zaira Pirova offers her to return home

    Zaira Pirova, a native of Dagestan, who fled to Georgia, has contacted her relatives, but was unable to convince them that she had left home voluntarily. She said that she missed her family. The girl's father gave her two days to think about it and promised that if she returned, she would be "treated specially."

January 09, 2025 21:14

January 08, 2025 23:34

  • Rights defenders refute abduction version of Dagestani Zaira Pirova

    The father of Zaira Pirova, who fled from Dagestan to Georgia, claims that his daughter was abducted and is kept under a threat to execute her family. However, human rights defenders object stating that Zaira had left home voluntarily and left Russia because of her relatives' attempts to find her.

TOPICS OF THE DAY

Events

News archive