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AZERBAIJAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF HELSINKI CITIZENS' ASSEMBLY
(ANC HCA)
ANC HCA was founded on 15 August, 1992. This is a branch of the international organisation - Helsinki Citizens' Assembly (HCA) in Azerbaijan.
Office of ANC HCA is also placed in Baku. HCA has also many offices in Europe: the Hague, Tuzla, Paris, Tbilisi, Erevan. Recently some Eastern States - Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Iran, Pakistan joined the organisation. hCa Human Rights School's seminar on litigation process in European Court.
HCA covers the countries, signed Final Protocol of the Conferences bn Security and Co¬operation in Europe. Co-operates with different international organisations, as that: UNO (specialized organisations and departments), OSCE, International Helsinki Federation, Amnesty International, International Red Cross and others.
HCA is a consulting member of the Council of Europe.
The assembly is headed by two acting chairs - Arzu Abdullayeva (Azerbaijan) and Bernard Dreano (France).
Arzu Abdullayeva is also chairwoman of ANC HCA, her activity in this sphere was awarded with Olof Palme Peace Prize (1992) and European Union and US Government's Award for Democracy and Civil Society (1998).
Vice-chairwomen of ANC HCA are Tamilla Zeynalova and Sajida Abdulvagabova.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:
Human right protection; Human rights education on the basis of international and national laws; Participation in the peace-building process, promotion of peace-building ideas, and promotion of constructive solutions to the conflicts surrounding Karabakh and Abkhazia; Active participation in the processes of reconciliation between conflicting sides in above-mentioned conflicts; Monitoring, assistance and prevention of torture; Prevention of the ethnic conflicts; Addressing and solving issues and problems of refugees, forced migrants, and other migrants; Assistance in the search for missing persons, liberation of hostages and war prisoners in Azerbaijan and Georgia; Assistance in the process of Transcaucasus integration; Promotion of the development of the third sector (non-governmental organizations) in Azerbaijan, Preparing cases to be sent to the European Court of Human Rights
MEMBERSHIP:
Membership in Azerbaijan National Committee of Helsinki Citizens' Assembly is collective and/or individual, that was in period of its creation in 1992 year and was due to realities of originated democratic society: need of studying an experience of pluralistic society with priorities of a person. In this connection ANC HCA was created on the principles of peculiar Coordination Council, united different political organizations, cultural centers of national minorities, nongovernmental organizations, Unions, Associations.
Nowadays six cultural centers ofhational minorities - Lezgins, Talyshs, Curds, Udins, Russians, Germans are collective members of ANC HCA.
Helsinki Children's Assembly was founded in ANC HCA for the first time in the practice of Helsinki Citizen's Assembly.
CRITERIA OF ACCCEPTANCE:
All persons wanting to join and acknowledged supremacy of law and human rights in accordance with Helsinki Agreements can be accepted as a collective (associative), as well as an individual member of ÀNC hCa.
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