The Frozen Conflicts of the EU's Eastern Neighbourhood and Their Impact on the Respect of Human Rights
The present study provides a detailed overview of the actual human rights situation in the frozen conflict regions of EU’s Eastern neighbourhood, namely in Crimea, Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh. The focus of the analysis is on the access to the justice system, as well as on the abilities of the de jure or de facto authorities to administer justice. Particular attention is paid to Crimea because the rapidly worsening human rights situation there affects far more people than the population of the other four frozen conflicts combined. International community actions, as well as the role of civil society in protecting human rights are also analysed.
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Andras RACZ (Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland)
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- access to the courts
- autonomous movement
- Azerbaijan
- civil society
- Council of Europe
- economic geography
- ethnic group
- Europe
- European construction
- European neighbourhood policy
- European organisations
- EUROPEAN UNION
- GEOGRAPHY
- Georgia
- human rights
- INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- international security
- justice
- LAW
- legal profession
- Moldova
- occupied territory
- organisation of the legal system
- OSCE
- political geography
- political violence
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- regional security
- rights and freedoms
- Russia
- settlement of disputes
- social framework
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- territorial dispute
- the EU's international role
- Ukraine
- world organisations