WE PRACTICE IN THE FIELD OF LAW, PR, GR, LOBBYING AT THE INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL  LEVEL IN CASES OF POLITICAL AND OTHER PERSECUTIONS. WE PROTECT JOURNALISTS, LAWYERS, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS, RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND BELIEVERS, ENTREPRENEURS, PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS, AND PRIVATE PERSONS.

 REGIONS OF OUR ADVOCACY:


 

                       EU           MOLDOVA           QUATAR           SWITZERLAND      USA

 

        MONTENEGRO              SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC             TURKEY    

 

       NORTH MACEDONIA          UKRAINE          KOSOVO AND METOHIJA


EXAMPLES OF LEGAL RESULTS AT THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL:

  • INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS OF BELIEVERS OF THE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

 

OUR ADVOCACY LEADS TO A LEGAL RESPONSE FROM THE UN 

 

The result of our advocacy is that seven UN Special Rapporteurs have addressed a communication to the Government of Ukraine.  Read more.

 

 

LEGAL PROTECTION OF ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS IN ESTONIA

 

 

 

ADVOCACY FOR THE ESTONIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH AT THE UN: THE ESTONIAN PRESIDENT HAS COME OVER TO OUR SIDE AND REFUSED TO BAN THE CHURCH.Read more

 



OUR ACTIVITY IN THE UN ON MOLDOVAN ISSUES LEADS TO AN EFFECTIVE RESPONSE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

 



Our written legal advocacy at the UN level (examples by countries, full list available at the official UN documentary website):

Region: Syrian Arab Republic: 

 

Statement during 41 UN HRC session: "Voice from inside and outside of the Syrian civil society: Priority measures to ensure security and restoration in the Syrian Arab Republic"

 

Statement during 41 UN HRC session: "The six-year anniversary of the Abducted Bishops of Aleppo"

 

Region: Montenegro:

 

Statement during 42 UN HRC session: "The threat to the right to survival of the Churches and religious communities in Montenegro"   

 

Statement during 42 UN HRC session: "On the position of Legal Council of the Orthodox metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral - Serbian Orthodox Church regarding the threat to the rights to survival of churches and religious communities"

 

Regions: Ukraine, Montenegro, North Macedonia: written statement during 41 UN HRC session:  "On violations of the rights of Orthodox Christians in Ukraine, Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia"

 

Region: Turkey: Statement during 38 UN HRC session: "On the religion-based violations against the Ecumenical Patriarchate and Orthodox Christian communities in Turkey"

 

Region: Kosovo and Metohija: Statement during 42 UN HRC session: "On the positions of the Serbian Orthodox Church on the issue of Kosovo and Metohija as part of a dialogue of reconciliation and consent"

 

Region: Ukraine:

 

Written statements during 53 UN HRC session:

 Statement of Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary "Appeal regarding the legal status of the Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, located on the territory of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, in connection with certain actions of the state authorities"

 

 Statement of ARCHBISHOP VICTOR OF KHMELNYTSKY AND STAROKOSTIANTYNIV, ON BEHALF OF THE KHMELNYTSKY EPARCHY regarding violations of human rights of UOC believers on the territory of diocese.

 

 Statement of NGO "Public Advocacy" "ON CRIMINAL CASES AGAINST THE EPISCOPATE OF THE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH, STATE DECISIONS ON OUTLAWING THE CHURCH AND MASS WITHDRAWAL OF LAND PLOTS"

 

 Statement of NGO "Public Advocacy" "On the seizure of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra temples, deprivation of bread and water, arrests of activists of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church"  

 

 Statement of NGO "Public Advocacy" "On the appeal of the Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to the UN HRC, UN OHCHR, UN special mandate holders, international organisations in connection with violations of

 

their rights in Ukraine"

 

Written statements during 42 UN HRC session:

 

Statement during 42 UN HRC session: "On tension in world Orthodoxy and official response of the Holy Synod of UOC to the growing violations of the UOC believers’ rights in light of the granting of a Tomos of autocephaly"

 

 

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