Council of Europe
The Presidential Council for Civil Society
Development and Human Rights
National Research University – Higher School of
Economics (HSE)
Conference
“Human Rights Education and Research in
the Promotion of the Council of Europe Standards”
Programme
Information support:
Organizing Committee:
Anita Soboleva, HSE, Associate Professor of the department of theory
and history of law; Chair of the Commission on social rights of the
Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights – Chair of the Organizing
Committee,
Dmitry Mazaev, HSE, Associate Professor of the department of theory
and history of law,
Sergey Platov, aide to the Chair of the Presidential Council for
Civil Society and Human Rights.
DAY 1 Tuesday, 24 May 2016
09.00 – 10.00 Official
opening session (with simultaneous interpretation)
Moderator: Anita Soboleva, Chair of the Organizing Committee, Associate
Professor of the department of theory and history of law at HSE; Chair of the
Commission on social rights of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and
Human Rights.
Welcome speeches:
Yaroslav Kuzminov, Rector of the National Research University
"Higher School of Economics", PH.D. in Economics.
Mikhail Fedotov, Chair of the Presidential Council for Civil Society
and Human Rights, Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, Doctor of
Legal Sciences, Professor.
Peter Zikh, Head of the Council of Europe Programme office in the
Russian Federation.
Markus Jaeger, Head of Cooperation with
International Institutions and Civil Society Division, Human Rights Policy and
Co-operation Department, Council of Europe.
Tatyana Moskalkova, High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian
Federation, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor.
Vladimir Lukin, Chair of the Paralympic Committee, High Commissioner
for Human Rights in the Russian Federation in 2004-2014, Doctor of Historical
Sciences, Professor.
10.00 – 11.30 Plenary
Session (with simultaneous interpretation)
The role of national policies
and human rights education in implementing the standards of the Council of
Europe;
Presentations
- 15 minutes.
Chairperson: Yevgeny Bobrov, vice-Chair of the Presidential Council for Civil
Society and Human Rights and Chair of the Commission on migration policy and
protection of human rights in the sphere of inter-ethnic relations, PH.D. in
law.
Speakers:
Andrey Klishas, Chair of the Federation Council
Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Development, Doctor of Law.
The correlation
of the Council of Europe standards with the standards of human rights provided
by the Russian Constitution.
Anatoly Kovler, member of the Venice Commission of the
Council of Europe, Professor of the Department of Judicial Power at HSE, Doctor
of Law, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights (1999-2012).
Twenty years of
Russia's membership in the Council of Europe: gains and losses.
Tamara Morschakova, Chair of the Department of Judicial
Power at HSE, Doctor of Law, Professor, Chair of the Commission on
civil participation in legal reform of the Presidential Council for
Civil Society Development and Human Rights.
Implementation
of human rights in the Russian legal system: legal forms of recognition of
rights
Markus Jaeger, Head of Cooperation
with International Institutions and Civil Society Division, Human Rights Policy
and Co-operation Department, Council of Europe;
co-chair of the Supervisory Board of the “Next Generation - Russian Public
Monitoring Commissions” Project.
Respect for Human Rights in Detention and the Role of Civil Society:
Council of Europe contribution through professional training.
Andrey Babushkin, Chair of the Commission on assistance
to public monitoring commissions, penal reform and crime prevention of the
Presidential Council for Civil Society Development and Human Rights.
Possible ways
of improvement of the Council of Europe human rights protection system.
Andrey Yurov, Chair of the Commission on protection of
human rights abroad of the Presidential Council for Civil Society
Development and Human Rights.
Human rights
education and civic education as tools for global promotion of the main
priorities of the Council of Europe: human rights, rule of law and democracy.
Anastasia
Shadarova, project officer, Council of Europe Programme office in Moscow.
Council of
Europe Programme for Human Rights Education for legal professionals – HELP:
challenges and achievements in Russia.
Lyudmila Alekseyeva, Chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group, member of the Presidential
Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.
11.45 - 12.15 Coffee break
12.15 - 14.00 Plenary Session. Strengthening the role of Ombudsperson
in the legal education (simultaneous interpretation). Presentations - 15
minutes.
Moderator:
Natalia Evdokimova, Chair of the commission on NGO developoment of the
Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, Adviser to
the Saint-Petersburg Commissioner on Human Rights
Speakers:
Tatyana Merzlyakova, Sverdlovsk Region Commissioner
for Human Rights.
International
standards of human rights: the experience of the Regional Commissioner in the
implementation of educational programs.
Tatyana Zrazhevskaya, Voronezh Region Commissioner for
Human Rights, Professor, Doctor of Law.
Implementation
of the Master’s programme “Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms” at a law
faculty.
Tatyana Margolina, Perm Region Commissioner for Human
Rights, Professor of the Perm State National Research University, PH.D.
The role of the
Russian regional ombudspersons in the promotion of the Council of Europe
Standards.
Alexander Shishlov, Commissioner for Human Rights in
St. Petersburg (topic tba)
Ekaterina Semenova, Commissioner for Human Rights in
the Moscow region. (topic tba)
Tatyana Potyaeva, Commissioner for Human Rights in the
city of Moscow, PhD, Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation. (topic tba)
Viktor Mikhailov, Associate
Professor of the Department of Judicial Power, HSE.
The
significance of the legal positions of ECtHR for the activities of the
ombudspersons.
Anna Demeneva, consultant to the Sverdlovsk Region Commissioner
for Human Rights, Associate Professor of the department of theory and history
of international relations of the Ural Federal University.
Practice of the
Sverdlovsk Region Commissioner for Human Rights in the application of legal
positions of the European Court of Human Rights in claimants’ rights protection.
Irina Biryukova, lawyer.
Cooperation between
lawyers and the Commissioners for Human Rights in the national implementation
of European standards in protection of prisoners’ rights.
14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
15.00 - 19.00 Programs and courses on human rights for
law students at the universities of the Council of Europe member states (with simultaneous
interpretation).
Presentations - 15 minutes.
Chairperson: Anita Soboleva, Chair of the Organizing Committee, Associate
Professor of the department of theory and history of law at HSE; Chair of the
Commission on social rights of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and
Human Rights, PH.D.
Speakers:
Sergey Dikman, programme
co-ordinator of Human Rights Policy and Co-operation Department, Directorate of
Human Rights, Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law, Council of
Europe; PH.D. in law.
Council of
Europe and the support to legal education through its co-operation programmes:
formal education and extracurricular activities.
Daniel Smilov, Associate Professor of political
science at Sofia University, Director of the program of the Centre for Liberal Strategies
, Sofia, Bulgaria; SJD (Scientific Judicial Doctor) .
Teaching
Council of Europe “Hard” and “Soft” Law in Bulgaria.
Nina Belyaeva, Chair of the Public Policy Department at
HSE, Professor, PH.D.
'Human Rights in
Globalizing World' and ' Global Actors in Public Policy' as the first
HSE experience in skype teaching in 'Global classroom' format , involving
Council of Europe partners from INGO Conference and European Wergeland
Center.
Karina Moskalenko, lawyer, founder and first Director
of the International Protection Center.
Comparative
analysis of the rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights,
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Chapter 2 of the
Russian Constitution: the problem of the Court's jurisdiction and the obligatory
nature of its judgments for the Council of Europe member states.
Marianna Muraveva, Professor of department of theory
and history of law, HSE; PH.D.
Training of
specialists in the field of human rights: the main problems and prospects of
human rights education.
Svetlana Mironova, Associate Professor of law, Comrat
University (Moldova), Ph.D. in political science, Head of the Representative
Office of the People’s Advocate (Ombudsperson) in Gagauzia.
Teaching the
course “Legal protection of human rights” with respect to national and regional
legislation in the Republic of Moldova.
Simon Matthijsen former Ombudsperson of Schiedam,
substitute Ombudsperson of Rotterdam and 11 cities around; guest lecturer at
Utrecht University’s Montaigne Centre for Judicial Administration and Conflict
Resolution, Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Viadrina University
in Frankfurt Oder (Germany); external adviser to the board of the European Ombudsperson
Institute (EOI) and permanent Representative of the EOI at the International
NGO conference of the Council of Europe; reporter of the Journal of Complaint
Law (Tijdschrift voor KLachtrecht), the Netherlands.
Human Rights
education in enhancing and enabling environment for civil societies and NGOs.
Violetta Beshirevich, Professor, Union University Law
School in Belgrade, SJD.
English
language Human Rights Law Master Program in Union University Law School in
Belgrade: Human Rights Practicum and distant learning courses with foreign
universities
Alla Tymofeyeva, Assistant Professor of the
International Law Department, Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague,
PH.D.
Human Rights
Education aiming to promote the CoE standards at the Faculty of Law, Charles
University in Prague.
Rachid Alouach, HR Rights Officer, OHCHR Programme, UNCT Russia.
Methodology of
education in the field of human rights: the UN guidelines.
Silvo Devetak, Professor, ISCOMET Institute and
President, ISCOMET NGO with the Participatory status at the Council of Europe,
Maribor, Slovenia.
Teaching on the
implementation of Council of Europe human rights standards and
antidiscrimination law of the European Union and its members.
DAY 2 Wednesday, 25 May 2016
PARALLEL SESSIONS
10.00 - 14.00 (Coffee break 11.30- 12.00):
SESSION I: Programs and courses on human rights in universities and
for legal practitioners
Presentations -20 minutes, 30 minutes general
discussion.
Chairperson: Marianna Muraveva, Professor of the
department of theory and history of law at HSE, PH.D.
Speakers:
Maria Smirnova, Research Associate of University of
Manchester Research Centre, School of Law, UK. PH.D. in law.
Human Rights
Education for Russian judges: a strategic tool for the judicial reform.
Dmitry Zaitsev, HSE Associate Professor of the
Department of Public Policy at HSE, PH.D. in political science.
Developing
expertise on human rights for the master's program on public policy: balancing
the knowledge, skills and values (the Council of Europe materials).
Oleg Bresky, Head of the Law Department of European
Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Grounds for the
teaching of human rights law at the University: global citizenship,
cosmopolitanism and social rights.
Maria Isayeva, Managing Partner at Threefold Legal
Advisors LLC, Moscow, Russia.
Soviet methods
of teaching of public international law and human rights as an obstacle to the formation
of a positive image of human rights in Russia.
Kseniia
Ivanova, senior lecturer of the department of constitutional and municipal law
of the Tyumen State University, PH.D. in law. “Script” method in teaching the standards of the
European Court of Human Rights in Russia.
Maria Voskobitova, Associate Professor of the
department of procedural law of the Russian Academy of Foreign Trade, PH.D. in
law.
Extracurricular
programs on human rights: human rights and school professional development programmes.
Anita Soboleva,
Associate Professor of the department of theory and history of law at
HSE; Chair of the Commission on social rights of the Presidential Council for
Civil Society and Human Rights, PH.D.
Teaching human rights to law students and students of
other specialisations: the experience of HSE.
Sanjay Kumar Rajhans,
Senior Lecturer of the HSE Department of Public Policy.
Teaching European values in Muslim-majority
class: experience of the innovative course 'Human Rights in non-western
societies'.
Sergey Parkhomenko, Associate Professor of HSE
Department of Public Policy.
Anti-corruption strategies,
rule-of-law values and organizing internships at HR organizations.
SESSION II: Academic research in the field of human rights (in Russian). Regulations - 20 minutes, 30 minutes general
discussion.
Chairperson: Natalia
Evdokimova, Chair of the commission on NGO developoment of the Presidential
Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, Adviser to the Saint-Petersburg Commissioner
on Human Rights
Speakers:
Anastasia Tumanova, Professor of the department of theory
and history of law at HSE, Doctor of Legal Sciences, and Alexander
Safonov, Professor of the department of theory and history of law at HSE,
Doctor of Legal Sciences.
The
institutionalization of human rights in pre-revolutionary Russia as a research
topic for the study-and-research group at HSE.
Irina Mersiyanova, Head of the Department of Economics and Management in Non-governmental Non-profit Organizations
and Head of the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Studies in Non-Commercial
Sector at HSE, Associate Professor, PH.D. in sociology.
Legal
consciousness of Russians (based on 10 years of observations in the monitoring
of the state of civil society).
Vera Rusinova, Associate Professor of the department
of international public and private law at HSE. ECHR practice in human rights education and research
in Russia.
Ekaterina Shugrina, Director of the Centre for support
and assistance to local governments of the Russian Presidential Academy of
National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor. Protection of local government in the European Court
of Human Rights.
Evgeniya Pavlenko, Moscow City Teacher Training
University (MCTTU), Associate Professor of the department of international law
and human rights, PH.D. in Law. Human rights
culture as scientific category and the phenomenon of public life in modern
Russia.
Elena Gerasimova, Chair of the Department of Labour
Law and Social Protection, Associate Professor at HSE, PH.D. in law; vice-Chair
of the Public Council of the Ministry of Labour Russia, Director of the Centre
for Social and Labour Rights.
Council of
Europe standards in the field of the right of association and collective
bargaining: implications for Russia.
Olga Teplyakova, Associate Professor of Constitutional
and Municipal law of the Tyumen State University, PH.D. in law.
The right of
the child to live and grow up in a family: the Russian experience in the
research and teaching of one of the Council of Europe's basic standards.
Olga Shepeleva, PH.D. student of the department of
judicial power at HSE.
Research as a
prerequisite for the effective implementation of human rights standards (for
example, the implementation of the decisions of the ECHR).
Svetlana Vasilyeva, Associate Professor of the
department of constitutional and administrative law at HSE, PH.D. in law.
Protection of
the rights of entrepreneurs.
Ksenia Kirsanova, lecturer of the department of civil
law at the Russian Academy of Justice.
Council of
Europe standards in Russian law: a study by young scientists.
SESSION III: Human rights topics and courses in the block of historical and theoretical
disciplines and teaching CE standards to legal practitioners (in Russian)
Presentations - 20 minutes, 30 minutes general discussion.
Chairperson: Tatyana Zrazhevskaya, Voronezh Region Commissioner for
Human Rights, Professor, Doctor of Law.
Speakers:
Tatyana Vasilyeva, Deputy Director of the Institute of
State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Law, Associate
Professor, and Natalia Varlamova, Senior Research Fellow of
the Department of Comparative Law of the Institute of State and Law of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, PH.D., Associate Professor.
Problems of the
research of the Council of Europe law in the system of the Russian legal
education.
Marina Baranova, Professor of the department of theory
and history of state and law of Nizhny Novgorod Academy of the Russian Ministry
of Interior, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod.
The place and
role of human rights in teaching the course "Theory of State and
Law."
Marina Nemytina, Head of the Department of Theory and
History of State and Law, Law Institute of People's Friendship University,
Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor.
Models of
training in the field of human rights protection.
Elizaveta Shushunova, Senior Lecturer of the department
of theory and history of law and state at Nizhny Novgorod branch of HSE.
Human rights
education for non-legal students: experience
of “World Economy” specialization of the HSE faculty of economics.
Marina Davydova, Chair of the department of constitutional
and municipal law of Volgograd State University, Doctor of Legal Sciences,
Professor.
The place and
role of the "Human Rights" course in law schools’ curriculum.
Natalia Kravchuk, coordinator of Council of Europe HELP Info Point/Russia; Research Fellow of
the
Legal studies department of the Institute of Scientific Information for
Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor of the
international law department at Russian State University of Justice, PH.D. in
law.
HELP
(Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals) Programme instruments in human
rights education of legal professionals.
Olga Kuptsova, Associate Professor of the department
of theory and history of state and law of the Nizhny Novgorod Academy of the Russian
Academy of Ministry of Interior, PH.D. in Law.
The terminology
of human rights in the process of learning the theory of state and law.
Ekaterina Petrova, Associate Professor of the
department of theory and history of state and law of Ivanovo State University, PH.D.
in law.
The study of
international mechanisms pf human rights protection by law students (Ivanovo
University experience).
Yuri Berestnev, Editor in Chief of the Russian edition
of "Bulletin of the European Court of Human Rights".
Strasbourg Law
and the problem of dissemination of information about it in Russian.
Olga Kryazhkova, Associate Professor of the department
of constitutional law at the Russian State University of Justice, PH.D.
Constitutional
rights in action. How to help legal practitioners to learn more?
14.00 - 15.30 Lunch
PARALLEL SESSIONS
15.30 - 17.00
SESSION IV: Raising legal awareness of human rights defenders (in cooperation with the
Moscow Helsinki Group, in Russian).
Presentations - 20 minutes, 30 minutes general
discussion.
Chairperson: Natalia Kravchuk, coordinator of Council of Europe HELP Info Point/Russia; Research Fellow of
the
Legal studies department of the Institute of Scientific Information for
Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor of the
international law department at Russian State University of Justice, PH.D. in
law.
Speakers:
Natalia
Evdokimova, Chair of the commission on NGO developoment of the Presidential
Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, Adviser to the Saint-Petersburg
Commissioner on Human Rights.
The role of
human rights non-profit organizations in the field of education of citizens.
Olga Fedorova, project coordinator of the Moscow
Helsinki Group.
The
contribution of the Moscow Helsinki Group to the development of human rights
education and civic education in Russia.
Vadim Karastelev, coordinator of the project "The
Citizen and the Police" in MHG, PH.D. in political sciences.
Training for
human rights defenders. Reflective notes trainer and participant.
Anna Voronkova, a volunteer of anti-racism MPC
committee, curator of the international project "Respect".
The use of
cartoon stories and comic books as a form of dialogue, integration in the
prevention of xenophobia.
Julia Schastlivtseva, Master student at the department
of judicial power, HSE.
The
presentation of the volunteer project "Reading Circle".
Oksana Paramonova, coordinator of educational programs
of the human rights organization, St. Petersburg.
Human rights
education through personal experience to protect their rights.
Batyr Dzhankezov, director of the NGO "Institute
of Humanitarian Research and Social Technologies".
Features of
education for democratic citizenship and education in the field of human rights
in the North Caucasus.
SESSION V: students
on session (in English).
Chairperson: Sanjay Kumar Rajhans, Senior
Lecturer at the HSE Department of Public Policy.
Speakers:
Ksenia Solovyova, 3rd year student of the Faculty of
Law of HSE.
International
group of legal studies as a way of promotion of Council of Europe standards (the
example of the Study Group of the European Law Students Association).
Gulnaz Zhuravleva, 3rd year student of the Faculty of
Law HSE intern "Russian Justice Initiative» (SRJI).
Control test in
the practice of the ECHR: compliance with international standards.
Alexandra Skiba, 4th year student of the Faculty of
Law, HSE. Protection of property under the ECHR: the balance of
private and public interests.
Tatyana Savvina, 4th year student of the Faculty
of Law, HSE.
Economic
well-being of the state as a legitimate aim of human rights restrictions in the
practice of the ECtHR.
Carmen Elisa Mir
Cortés, international student at Tyumen State University. Freedom of
religion as a Fundamental Right, from the Spanish and European perspective.
17.00 -
17.30 Final discussion. Conclusions.
