Representatives of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee to Meet Representatives of Local CSOs and Intentional Organizations

The Secretary-General of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee Bjørn Engesland and Head of Human Rights Education Department at the NHC Enver Djuliman will pay a visit to Georgia and Armenia on February 18-21. They intend to meet representatives of local partner organizations, public institutions and local missions of international organizations to discuss ongoing programs and future plans of the NHC in Georgia, Armenia and in the South Caucasus Region in general.

The Norwegian Helsinki Committee is a non-governmental organization working to ensure that human rights are respected in practice, and particularly works with countries in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. The Norwegian Helsinki Committee was established in 1977. It has its head office in Oslo and a regional office in Central Asia. 

NHC bases its work on international human rights instruments adopted by the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

NHC has been working with local partner organizations in the South Caucasus during the past few years on human rights monitoring, advocacy, and human rights education. Late in 2012, the Committee launched a three-year project, the Coalition for Trust, with financial support of the European Commission and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The project includes capacity building, advocacy, public engagement, and networking on the crucial interconnection of human rights, non-violent conflict transformation, and rebuilding confidence and trust in divided societies. Within the Coalition for Trust, NHC is working with its partner organizations in all regions of the South Caucasus, including Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabakh. The Coalition for Trust is bringing together more than 200 students, journalists and civic activists as network members to build people-to-people contacts and develop new perspectives on conflict transformation.

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