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1 PROJECTS SUPPORTED BY NETHERLANDS EMBASSY MOSCOW IN 2012 (MATRA AN Project No Name of NGO Region Theme 17/10 Focus Media Moscow Healthcare 30/10 WWF Moscow 9/11 Citizens` Watch Sint Petersburg 10/11 Autonomous non-commercial organization "Moscow school of political studies" Moscow human rights 11/11 WWF Moscow 01/12 Moscow Helsinki Group Moscow human rights 02/12 Non-state educational institution "Academy on Human Rights" Sverdlovsk Oblast human rights

2 03/12 Information centre of Russian Union of journalists Moscow human rights & media 04/12 Rostov city public organization "Eco-logika" Rostov Oblast 05/12 Ecological centre Omsk Oblast 06/12 Committee for civil rights Moscow human rights 07/12 Golos Moscow human rights 08/12 Independent press centre Moscow human rights & media 09/12 Society for protection of rights of car owners Moscow human rights & media 10/12 New horizons Chechnya human rights 11/12 Centre for development of democracy and human rights Moscow human rights 12/12 Centre for legal and economic studies Moscow rule of law Project No Name of NGO Region Theme

3 01/11 Memorial Moscow human rights 04/11 Moscow Guild of cinema actors Moscow human rights 05/11 Caucasian knot Moscow human rights/media 01/12 Side by Side Moscow human rights 02/12 Perspektiva Moscow human rights 03/12 Novaya Gazeta Moscow media 04/12 Social Partnership Moscow human rights 02/10 Anne Frank Stichting Amsterdam human rights 05/12 Netherlands Helsinki Committee The Hague human rights

4 ROJECTS SUPPORTED BY THE NETHERLANDS CONSULATE GENERAL IN ST.PETERSBURG IN Project No Name of NGO Region Theme 14/12 St. Petersburg Public Organization Doctors to children St. Petersburg human rights 28/12 Arkhangelsk regional LGBT organization Rakurs 41/12 Union of journalists of the Arkhangelsk Region Arkhangelsk Oblast Arkhangelsk Oblast human rights media 47/12 ANO Centre for independent sociological researches St. Petersburg rule of law 52/12 Coming Out St. Petersburg human rights

5 60/12 St. Petersburg Law Institute named after the Prince Oldenburg St. Petersburg rule of law 71/12 Youth Humanitarian movement Murmansk Oblast human rights 72/12 Stellit St. Petersburg human rights 73/12 Kaliningrad public foundation of migrants Dom Kaliningrad Oblast human rights Project No Name of NGO Region Theme 22/12 Freedom of Information Foundation St. Petersburg rule of law 25/12 ANO Youth Human Rights Group St. Petersburg human rights 32/12 Kaliningrad Regional Anticorruption Community of experts Kaliningrad Oblast rule of law 51/12 Side by Side St. Petersburg human rights 65/12 Karelian charity fund "Opora" Karelia human rights 68/12 Independent Social Women's Centre Pskov oblast human rights 78/12 Bellona St. Petersburg On the occasion of International Human Rights Day (10 December 2012) a special screening w

6 Name of Project Empower and organize people to overcome multiple threats EBM implementation for Sustaining Russian Fishery and Marine Living Resources Conservation in Arctic and Sub-Arctic Russian waters European standards in civil and criminal proceedings Enhancing freedom of expression, independent mass media and human rights protection in the Russian Federation Establishing a network of educational wetland centers in European Russia to promote wetland centers in European Russia to promote wetland conservation through the development and implementation of a CEPA Action Plan Overcoming homophobia and discrimination on sexual orientation Professional exchange to develop the outline for a Master-program on international human rights law

7 Fourth international festival "Profession: journalist" Involvement of citizens in discussions of a law to decrease nature pollution with plastic bags Preservation of Emergency groups to respond in the case of violence by law enforcement bodies Improving citizens rights Facilitation of press conferences for NGO's School of public controllers Increasing justice for women in Chechnya and Ingushetia Russian NGOs and the universal periodic review at Rule of law as cornerstone for economic development Name of Project

8 General activities International Human Rights film Festival Stalker General activities LGBT film festival Improving access to inclusive employment opportunities for young people with disabilities Foundation of a multimedia studio of Novaya Gazeta Assistance for Public Observers who are active in detention facilities tolerance and human rights education in Russia Coordinated civil society campaign for fundamental rights in Central Asia

9 2012 (MATRA AND HUMAN RIGHTS FUND Name of Project Protecting the rights of migrant workers and their families Human rights: Fight the discrimination of LGBT people in the Arkhangelsk Region Legal literacy is a journalist - a pledge of civil society Development of the impartiality of justices of the peace as the basis for the independence of justice Legal strategy for the empowerment of the LGBT movement

10 International Moot Court on Human Rights for school children Development of an independent information source on human rights in the Murmansk region Cooperation between Russia and the Netherlands in the field of children's rights East West: dialogue of civilizations Name of Project Access to information - protection of rights of citizens in housing and communal services Youth Theatre against xenophobia Activities against corruption Fifth Side by Side LGBT International Film Festival Schoolchildren, know your rights! Activities against domestic violence Development of information and legal resources

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