{"id":1002,"date":"2007-11-19T10:53:15","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T08:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-archive\/1002"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:04:52","slug":"the-helsinki-citizens-assembly-hca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"The Helsinki Citizens Assembly hCa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helsinki_Citizens_Assembly\">Helsinki Citizens&rsquo; Assembly<\/a> is an organization of citizens dedicated to peace, democracy and human rights in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The Helsinki Citizens\u2019 Assembly is a non-governmental organization, working on the notions of fundamental rights and freedoms, peace, democracy and pluralism. hCa works independently from political parties, government and states, aims to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>introduce the basic rights and freedoms accepted in international agreements and outlined by universal standards into daily life;<\/li>\n<li>promote peaceful processes for the resolution of problems through mutual understanding dialogue and peace;<\/li>\n<li>improve pluralist democratic bodies and civil society initiatives;<\/li>\n<li>ensure the supremacy of law and to defend an economic system that promotes the well-being of human life and the environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why \u201cHelsinki\u201d? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hri.org\/docs\/Helsinki75.html\">The Helsinki Final Act<\/a> (August 01, 1975) provided a basis for creating conditions favorable to peace in Europe and made human rights a common value to be respected by all nations in a world which was divided into East and West camps in that period. The word \u00ab\u00a0Helsinki\u00a0\u00bb refers to the historic significance of this agreement (taken directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyd.org.tr\/\">Helsinki Yurttaslar Dernegi<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The collapse of the Berlin Wall and the new global political context this created gave rise to a new peace movement called the \u201cHelsinki Citizens\u2019 Assembly\u201d. From October 19th to 22nd 1990, peace activists from all parts of Europe (chaired by Vaclav Havel, then president of Czechoslovakia) held a meeting &#8230; (see the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helsinki_Citizens_Assembly\">full long wikipedia-text<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>More links on wikipedia: Helsinki <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helsinki_Accords\"> Accords<\/a>; Helsinki <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helsinki_Committee_for_Human_Rights\">Committee for Human Rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other links<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hri.org\/docs\/Helsinki75.html\">CONFERENCE ON SECURITY AND CO-OPERATION IN EUROPE<\/a>, (with Contents\/Index; FINAL ACT HELSINKI 1975; Questions relating to Security in Europe; Co-operation in the Field of Economics, of Science and Technology and of the Environment; Questions relating to Security and Co-operation in the Mediterranean; Co-operation in Humanitarian and Other Fields; Follow-up to the Conference).<\/p>\n<p>The Final Act of the Conference &#8230; , on <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.umn.edu\/humanrts\/osce\/basics\/finact75.htm\">University of Minnesota<\/a>, Human Rights Library;<\/p>\n<p>same on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osce.org\/documents\/mcs\/1975\/08\/4044_en.pdf\">OSCE.org<\/a>, and &lsquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osce.org\/item\/15661.html\">Signing of<\/a> the Helsinki Final Act&rsquo;;<\/p>\n<p>same on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seerecon.org\/region\/sp\/helfa75e.pdf\">recon<\/a>.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Helsinki Citizens&rsquo; Assembly is an organization of citizens dedicated to peace, democracy and human rights in Europe. The Helsinki Citizens\u2019 Assembly is a non-governmental organization, working on the notions of fundamental rights and freedoms, peace, democracy and pluralism. hCa works independently from political parties, government and states, aims to: introduce the basic rights and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1002\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;The Helsinki Citizens Assembly hCa&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15391,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/15391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}