{"id":5928,"date":"2021-05-15T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T13:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/actors\/moscow-helsinki-group-mhg\/"},"modified":"2021-07-19T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T08:00:03","slug":"moscow-helsinki-group-mhg","status":"publish","type":"actors","link":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/actors\/moscow-helsinki-group-mhg\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><b><i>Official position\/function in relation to the conflict<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mhg.ru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG)<\/a> is the oldest operating and one of the most reputable and influential independent human rights organizations in the territory of the former USSR<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It was formed in 1976 as an initiative dissident group and was originally called the \u201cPublic Group for Assistance to the Implementation of the Helsinki Agreements in the USSR.\u201d It is part of the international network of Helsinki organizations (see, for example, the Ukrainian Helsinki Group).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The MHG has condemned Russian aggression against Ukraine, criticizes the actions of the Russian authorities in Crimea, as well as the escalation of the conflict in Donbas.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><b><i>Actions in relation to the conflict region<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The MHG employees took part in monitoring missions in the armed conflict area in 2014-2015. The MHG publishes annual reports \u201cHuman Rights in the Russian Federation in 2014,\u201d which published data on human rights violations during the conflict, and described cases of attacks on journalists trying to report the deaths of Russian military servants in Donbas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MHG employees are members of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mhg.ru\/sites\/default\/files\/files\/doklad-prava-cheloveka-rf-2015-ru.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In 2014-2015, they initiated a discussion of the human rights situation in the conflict region.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regarding Crimea: MHG members initiated the creation of the Crimean Field Mission for Human Rights that collected information on human rights violations on the territory of the annexed peninsula. <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeahrg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Crimea_Field_Mission_Review_May_2015_RU.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On the basis of the information collected, the Field Mission updated Russian and international structures in the field of human rights.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official position\/function in relation to the conflict Moscow Helsinki Group&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","actor-types":[193],"areas":[208],"topics":[176],"class_list":["post-5928","actors","type-actors","status-publish","hentry","actor-types-institution-en","areas-russia_eng","topics-civil-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actors\/5928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actors"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/actors"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actors\/5928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6144,"href":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actors\/5928\/revisions\/6144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"actor-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actor-types?post=5928"},{"taxonomy":"areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/areas?post=5928"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilmplus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=5928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}