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The Helsinki Citizens' Assembly was founded in October 1990 in Prague, Czechoslovakia as an international working conference. Over one thousand delegates from Western and Eastern Europe attended. Civil society groups, women's organizations, trade unions , peace organizations, and representatives from the European Union participated in the ...
The Armenian branch was founded in Vanadzor in 1998. The Helsinki Citizens' Assembly–Vanadzor supports the strengthening of civil society, equality, and human rights, including women's rights, rights for minorities, and LGBT rights in Armenia. HCAV calls for more women to be represented in the National Assembly.
Helsinki [a] [b] is the capital and ... There were 118,128 residents who were born abroad, or 17.5% of the population. The number of foreign citizens in Helsinki was ...
The deputy mayor of Finland’s capital is facing possible legal action, and calls for him to pay compensation for damages and to resign, after he was caught red-handed spray-painting graffiti in ...
Since 2005, the Helsinki Committee of Armenia maintains partnerships with the European Union, Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly–Vanadzor, the National Endowment for Democracy, the OSCE, Open Society Foundations, and the U.S. Embassy in Armenia. [4] The HCA also cooperates with other Helsinki Committee's across Europe. [21]
[10] [11] [12] Representatives of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly–Vanadzor, the Union of Informed Citizens, Young European Ambassadors, the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party, the Conservative Party, the Armenian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum, among others signed the document.
The Helsinki Committees began as Helsinki Watch groups. The first one was founded in the Soviet Union in 1976, the second in 1977 in Czechoslovakia , the third in 1979 in Poland . In 1982, representatives of several of these committees held an International Citizens Helsinki Watch Conference and founded the IHF.
Citizens' Party (Finnish: Kansalaispuolue, Swedish: Medborgarpartiet) was a Finnish political party, founded in 2016. [1] It was founded by the long-time Centre Party politician and MEP Paavo Väyrynen, who left Centre in early 2016. [2] Väyrynen acted as the first chairman of the party until July 2017, when he was succeeded by Sami ...