Moscow Bureau for Human Rights will take part in The Durban Review Conference on 20-24 April 2009; and will evaluate progress towards the goals set by the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa, in 2001.

The Bureau for Human Rights realizes a daily monitoring of the human rights violations in Russia and a particularized monitoring “Xenophobia, racial discrimination, anti-Semitism and religious persecutions in the regions of Russia”. The Moscow Bureau for Human rights will present the additional report on the situation in RF and recommendations "Prevention of Anti-Semitism and regional ethnic conflicts in the Russian Federation”. There will be given the estimation of situation in the Northern Caucasus - Ingushetia, the Chechen Republic, Dagestan, the problem of South Ossetia. The Bureau representatives will announce the statistics on attacks and collisions based upon xenophobia recorded in RF and describe the law enforcement practice, public prosecution bodies practice and views of NGOs on development and implementation of the ethno-national and migration policies in RF, on actions of federal authorities. The Bureau will also present recommendations of Public chamber of the Russian Federation "About tolerance and counteraction to extremism in the Russian society", and tell about creation of working group on interaction with right defending organizations, experts in the field of linguistics and legal experts at the State Office of Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation.

There will be shown film "The Shadow of Swastika" shot by MBHR. The film represents the most acute problems of modern Russian society - radical meetings and demonstrations, skinheads, hate crimes. Particularly, there is shown captured attack of Alexander Koptsev to the congregation of Moscow synagogue at the Bolshaya Bronnaya Street. The film puts a question: Why in the country, which had defeated fascism, the works of the Third Reich's ideologists are being published and the most dismal xenophobia myths are being disseminated?

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