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Hate Speech. методические рекомендации правозащитных организаций в Беларуси

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Belarusian

The often-used term of “hate speech” refers to completely different things: individual discriminatory phrases, pictures on social networks or entire journalistic materials. There are more and more differences of opinion on what to consider a "language of enmity" and how to deal with this phenomenon. // These methodological remarks of Belarusian human rights organizations are intended to acquaint a wide range of interested people with approaches to the "language of hostility" from the point of view of international law, to describe the Belarusian legal context, as well as to share important recommendations and references.

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MISCELLANY of IFIMES 2003

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The Yearbook comprises 47 short texts dealing with all the various issues that made the flobal diplomatic agenda in 2003. The Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) which contributes with its research, analytic and information activities to better understanding of events in the most critical regions of the south-east Europe, the Middle-East and the Persian Gulf. With profound researches of political, economic and military issues, religious and interethnic relations and critical analyses of democratisation processes in those and other regions, IFIMES presents the reasons and roots of disagreements and conflicts. Knowledge and deeper understanding as weil as the possibilities and guidelines for resolving conflicts enable us to efficiently take part at harne and in the world in joint efforts for peace and democratisation.

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MISCELLANY of IFIMES 2004

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The Yearbook comprises 31 short texts dealing with most of the various issues that made the global diplomatic agenda in 2004. // For years “Crisis management” and “Crisis prevention” have been key words in the political debate. Unfortunately, no significant progress has been achieved. The world still has to live with surprises - crises and conflicts emerge without early warnings. Political leaders and the public learn about crises and conflicts if and when CNN cameras transport the horrifying pictures via TV into our homes. Political leaders express their surprise about emerging crises and conflicts in Rwanda, Haiti, Former Yugoslavia, Ivory Coast, Congo, Middle East, Former Soviet Union, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, Afghanistan - just to name a few.They react - and sometimes overreact - in panic, pour a lot of resources into damage control and promise to improve the tools for “crisis prevention” - and then forget the crisis and measures for “crisis prevention until the next crisis emerge. Is this cycle a natural law? Are those political crises - like Tsunami - a fact of life we have to live with fatalistically? Are we not capable with all our instruments of world-wide access to information, communications, computers, exchange of knowledge within a nation, between nations and alliances, state and non-state organisations to net a safer world?Are we not willing to spend some money to prevent crises and con-flicts? Is there no political resolve to - at least - reduce the number of surprises?

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MISCELLANY of IFIMES 2005

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The Yearbook comprises 18 short texts dealing with the most important issues that made the SEE regional global diplomatic agenda in 2005. // IFIMES looks at things differently. Its contributors and their works are selected for the breadth of their vision as well as their intimate knowledge of a specific country. IFIMES contributors work to enlighten developments across regions – the Middle East and Southeast Europe – as well as between countries. To those who believe that Iraq represents unique challenges or that Bosnia-Herzegovina is a one-off exception to global developments, IFIMES responds that informed observers must identify both the shared and unique characteristics of each situation to gain a full understanding of viable policy options. The reader will find in the following pages the best thinking of the most informed and creative specialists on these areas, along with an unfailing resolve to analyze critically and comparatively the most pressing issues of our time. In the following pages, these contributors inform, analyze, and provoke. Whenever possible and appropriate, they prescribe policy options. The essays contribute knowledge, insight, and original ideas of value both to general readers and to specialists in the region. (Bob Donja)

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MISCELLANY of IFIMES 2006

Author(s): Zijad Bećirović / Language(s): English

The IFIMES Yearbook 2006 concentrates on the Middle East and the Balkans, which have certainly been two of the most important strategic regions for European security in the past few years. Although I welcome very much the improvements achieved in the Balkans in recent years, there is no doubt that the international community is still far from achieving reconciliation among the countries concerned and the integration of the western Balkans into Euro-Atlantic structures. There is still much work to do. Equally, many of our hopes for a lasting settlement between Arabs and Israelis in the Middle East have been dashed, despite the efforts of both the United States and the EU in the Quartet and the Anapolis Peace initiative to push towards a two state solution for the Israelis and Palestinians. The recent conflict in Gaza demonstrates both the lack of an agreed framework for peace and the even greater urgency for the new US Administration as well as the European Union to work towards one. As policy makers take up the challenge of finding lasting solutions to overcome the divisive historical legacy of conflicts in the Balkans and the Middle East, they need to have a sophisticated understanding of the background to these conflicts, they need to base their analysis and the policy options on in-depth knowledge, rather than episodic newspaper reports or emotional TV pictures. They need to understand better what has succeeded or failed in past peace making endeavours. In all of these crucial areas the experts contributing to the IFIMES Yearbook 2006 have once more provide indispensable insights and guidance. This is yet another reason why I commend this Yearbook to anyone who is seriously concerned with the state of the world today. (Jamie Shea)

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MISCELLANY of IFIMES 2007

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If we take a brief glance at the titles of the 2007 contributions, distributed by the IFIMES throughout its network, one can see at once the importance, breadth, and complexity of the work involved. There is a real depth of expertise and understanding in their work. Critical thinking is an important tool, in every field. This is especially true for social science analysis, where »variables« occur often unpredictably, making them very difficult to measure with any degree of certainty. The results of this research must therefore be combined with those from other fields, particularly the natural sciences, technical fields, and others. In this way, science that is applicable to day-to-day political, cultural, and economic practice can become the driving force for wider social understanding and development. This is an illustration of how the Lisbon strategy contributes to the development of new and more effective strategic guidance for EU science and research. I am particularly pleased to see the increasing attention dedicated to science in the EU. Research is becoming increasingly seen as a good long-term investment, rather than shortterm cost: this is how it should be. (Janez Potočnik)

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Youth Score Card. Methodological Note

Author(s): Iurie Morcotilo / Language(s): English

The successful integration of young people in socio-economic processes is a prerequisite for any country’s sustainable development. This was also acknowledged at international level by embedding age-disaggregated data in the 2030 Global Development Agenda and transposing them into the Sustainable Development Goals. In fact, data disaggregation stimulates evidence-based policy making in this area. However, a large number of age-disaggregated indicators have the drawback to distract the attention of decision-makers and of the general public. A solution would be to use composite indices that would integrate more youth development indicators into one single figure that could be used to guide public policies and discussions. This report is meant to close the methodological gap related to the development of composite indices on the situation of youth at local level. The key purpose of the methodology is to estimate the situation of the youth in administrative territorial units of second level of the Republic of Moldova in order to facilitate policy-making and monitoring over time. The report contains both the calculation aspects of the composite index according to the best international practices, and the practical application taking an administrative territorial unit as an example. Finally, the Annex contains both area-disaggregated scores for all administrative units of second level, and the final scores of the composite index.

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WAR BY OTHER MEANS. Kremlin’s Energy Policy as a Channel of Influence - A comparative assessment and case studies from Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Romania and Hungary

Author(s): Ana Otilia Nuțu,Sorin Ioniță / Language(s): English

The EU has been increasingly caught up in its own internal struggles over the past years - migration, populism, Brexit - and is facing fundamental challenges to its core principles and values from problematic member states such as Poland, Hungary or Romania. Russia stands only to benefit from such internal divisions. As usual, Moscow has its instruments to exert significant political influence in its “near abroad”, but also to expand it in the formerly communist Central Europe and further towards the West. As the prospects to finalize Kremlin’s pet energy projects Nord Stream 2 and Turkish Stream loom ever closer, this report is meant to ring the alarm bells: excessive reliance on Russian energy is a real threat, not only to energy security of Central and Eastern Europe, but also for the broader, fundamental objective of improving governance across the region, as many of the Eastern Partnership countries can testify. The five case studies we present in this report cover a broad range of problems and very different situations.

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Provocările pieței produselor petrolierele din Republica Moldova: prețuri vs. calitate

Author(s): Ion Gumene / Language(s): Romanian

The dissatisfaction expressed by consumers towards the increase in the prices of the main petroleum products (gasoline and diesel) already has a systemic character. The increase of about 5% in the prices of these products, operated by the oil companies in the middle of May of the current year, was not an exception, thus causing a new wave of polemics in society. According to the explanations, which were not expected from the oil companies, the increase was caused by the increase in prices on international exchanges, but also by the depreciation of the Moldovan leu in relation to the US dollar. … In this context, we set out to analyze the latest developments that took place on the domestic and foreign petroleum products markets, while highlighting their defining elements.

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Rezilienţă Demografică. Profilul demografic al Municipiului Chișinău

Author(s): Ecaterina Rusu / Language(s): Romanian

The analysis was developed on the basis of the revised data of the population and migration at the territorial level estimated by the National Bureau of Statistics in the year 2022 and the data of the Generations and Gender Study (GGS), which is the first and most complex longitudinal demographic study carried out to date in more than 24 countries of the world. The GGS is part of the international program coordinated by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI). The conclusions of this study are intended to provide local authorities in the Republic of Moldova with disaggregated data about demographic changes in the Republic of Moldova, so that the authorities can develop demographic policies centered on people and adjusted to their real needs. At the same time, the conclusions of this analysis will be used by the authorities to identify measures to transform the demographic crisis into an opportunity, to support the country's development and promote demographic resilience in Moldova.

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Rezilienţă Demografică. Profilul demografic al Municipiului Bălţi

Author(s): Marina Soloviova / Language(s): Romanian

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Rezilienţă Demografică. Profilul demografic al Raionului Ialoveni

Author(s): Ecaterina Rusu / Language(s): Romanian

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Analiza dividendelor demografice ale Republicii Moldova

Author(s): Alexandru Fală / Language(s): Romanian

In order to favor economic dynamics, public policies need to address the influences determined by both demographic dividends. For example, in the case of occupational policies, it would be welcome to extend the possibilities of keeping people who have passed the retirement age at work, if the elderly want to continue their activity and their state of health is satisfactory. These measures would increase the labor income of the elderly and reduce the gap between consumption and labor income. At the same time, the period during which adults are net producers would be extended and the number of net producers would increase, which would consequently reduce the effects associated with the loss of the advantages offered by the first demographic dividend. In order to increase the opportunities generated by the second demographic dividend, it is necessary to diversify the possibilities of investing savings, which would favor the accumulation of assets and, implicitly, would increase the capital stock. Another important policy direction concerns the promotion of a broad set of reforms that would boost the return on capital, which would boost economic growth and enhance the benefits of capital accumulation.

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CARTEA ALBĂ A BUNEI GUVERNĂRI. Priorități de politici pentru următoarele 12 luni pentru Guvernul Republicii Moldova

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Romanian

In the context of the formation of the new Government and considering the urgent need to promote a series of policies and reforms to strengthen good governance in key development sectors, the Independent Analytical Center Expert-Group, the Institute for European Policies and Reforms and the Legal Resources Center from Moldova joined their efforts to develop the White Book of Good Governance. The document presents a succinct summary of the main policy recommendations and reforms in the fields of economic, social, justice, foreign policy, security and defense, public administration reform, as well as the implementation of the Association Agreement (AA) and the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA ) with the EU, which are recommended to be implemented in the next 12 months by the Government. These were identified as a result of multiple analyzes and policy studies combining 3 basic principles: (i) urgency of implementation (needs to be implemented as soon as possible; (ii) financial and technical feasibility of implementation; and (iii) expected impact short and long term. The authors do not insist on the exhaustiveness of the recommendations, but recommend to the Government that they be included in the consolidated Action Plan. At the same time, the authors declare themselves open in offering the expertise they have in order to promote and implement them, including in partnership with other representatives of civil society and the community of development partners.

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WHITE BOOK OF GOOD GOVERNANCE. Policy priorities for the next 12 months for the Government of the Republic of Moldova

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Republic of Belarus. 2020 Presidential Election. Report on the formation of precinct election commissions

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Observation of the presidential election is carried out by the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the Human Rights Center “Viasna” in the framework of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections”.

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