Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
- Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
Helsinki Committees for Human Rights exist in many European countries (the OSCE region) as volunteer, non-profit organizations devoted to human rights and presumably named after the Helsinki Accords. They used to be organized into the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights based in Vienna, but now bankrupt due to financial fraud within its organisation.
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, etc.
In 1982, representatives of several of these committees held an International Citizens Helsinki Watch Conference and founded the IHF.
In 1992, a British Helsinki Human Rights Group was established in the UK, but this group has always been completely independent of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. The UK's official representative in the IHF is the British Helsinki Subcommittee of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group, established in 1976.
ee also
* [http://www.mhc.org.mk/default-en.asp?ItemID=63FEDEF4EF89ED45AA014C0027061B76 Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of the Republic of Macedonia]
* Human Rights Watch
* Belarus Helsinki Committee
External links
* [http://www.mhc.org.mk/default-EN.asp Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of the Republic of Macedonia]
* [http://www.ihf-hr.org/ International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights]
* [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01/09/europe/EU-GEN-Austria-Human-Rights-Fraud.php "Human rights movement active despite fraud scandal, former director says"]
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