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23.07.07, Council of Europe, “Victims of human rights violations deserve more” Torturers and others who violate human rights should be brought to account – at the same time, we should not forget the victims. What they have gone through tends in many cases to cause distressing trauma, disruption of everyday life and destruction of the future. Justice requires that redress is achieved for the victims.
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Situation of longstanding refugees and displaced persons in South East Europe. Recommendation 1802 (2007)The Parliamentary Assembly has been following the humanitarian situation of refugees and displaced persons in South-east Europe since the very beginning of the armed conflict in the region.
PACE strongly condemns crimes of totalitarian communist regimes. PACE Press release.
Strasbourg, 25.01.2006 – The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) strongly condemned the massive human rights violations committed by totalitarian communist regimes and expressed sympathy, understanding and recognition for the victims of these crimes.
Parliamentary Assembly: Resolution 1481 (2006)1
Need for international condemnation of crimes of totalitarian communist regimes. The Parliamentary Assembly refers to its Resolution 1096 (1996) on measures to dismantle the heritage of the former communist totalitarian systems.
Further information, please contact:
Ms. Alexandra Mareschi
alexandra.mareschi(at)projusticia.net
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08.12.2009 Veikko Saksi: Climate change, EU, Pechenga and Karelia
11.11.2009 Veikko Saksi: Nord Stream supervision threatens Finland's sovereignty
04.09.2009 Veikko Saksi: Antifascists and the dismantling of war guilt
01.08.2009 Dan Bilefsky: Hurdles in Eastern Europe Thwart Restitution Claims
29.07.2009 Lawsuit over seized German art is dismissed
30.06.2009 Dinah Spitzer: For restitution seekers, 10 European countries that have obstacles
04.062.2009 Veikko Saksi: Edvins Snore and the Soviet Story
29.05.2009 Adrian Blomfield: Russian aristocrat's heir reclaims Van Gogh painting 'looted' by Lenin
01.05.2009 The Guardian, Scent of victory among the lemon trees as displaced Cypriots win claim on ancestral land
Displaced Greek Cypriots celebrate landmark court ruling on property rights
Exiles: 2,5 milliard Euros indemnification
December 2008, Grandson of German prince who helped 'Valkyrie' plot to kill Hitler loses bid to win back his family's £6m estate
11.2008 Chinese Property Confiscation Unrest Kills 10
20.10.2008 New legislation to allow return of Nazi loot
18.10.2008 What can be learnt from the Egyptian approach to restitution
16.10.2008 BBC, Spanish judge to probe Franco era
10.10.2008 Court Throws out Restitution Claim by Ethnic Germans
09.10.2008 Court rejects Germans' property restitution claims
13.08.2008 EU presidency to highlight Jewish restitution
14.03.2008 Power plays delay recovery of Shoah restitution body
26.09.2008 Italy returns Parthenon frament, by Dr. Kwame Opoku
24.09.2008 Wexler Applauds Passage of Holocaust Property Restitution Resolution
Calls on Central and Eastern European Countries to Pass Fair and Just Restitution Legislation
19.09.2008 Renata Goldirova, Euobserver.com:Czech Republic seeks EU institute on totalitarianism
23.08.2008 Latvia: Ethnic community calls for restitution
20.07.2008 MARIASCHIN: Lithuania's new Jewish concerns
July 2008, Restitution for Russian Nobles? Their descendants are on a quixotic mission to recover property seized by the Bolsheviks over a century ago
10.07.2008, U.S. State Department Envoy Pressing Holocaust-Era Property Compensation in Eastern Europe
06.05.2008 Opening Statement of Senator Bill Nelson, Holocaust Era Insurance Restitution after ICHEIC, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Democracy and Human Rights
30.03.2008, The Jerusalem Post, Etgar Lefkovits, Poland wants Holocaust property restitution law by end of year
06.05.2008 Holocaust Era Insurance Restitution after ICHEIC, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Democracy and Human Rights
18.03.2008 The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), ICJ urges Chinese Government to Permit Peaceful Protest in Tibet and Calls for
International Investigation into Reported Human Rights Violations
15.03.2008 CNN, Clashes leave 10 dead in Tibet
07.03.2008 Wexler Urges Rice to Discuss Property Restitution Issue with Polish Prime Minister Tusk during White House Visit
06.03.2008 The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), The ICJ Concludes a Second High Level Mission to the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel
United States Claims Drugs Money Has Been Funding Spanish Property Boom
25.02.2008 Kyero.com, United Nations Attacks Housing Speculation in Spain
22.02.2008, Turkish Daily News, Parliament approves foundations law, CHP to take it to court
22.02.2008, Turkish Daily News, Foundations law at heart of new debate
22.02.2008,Mehmet Ali Birand, Turkish Daily News, Full marks to AKP on the Foundations Law
05.02.2008,Today's Zaman, Minority foundation law not satisfactory, says TESEV
30.01.2008, The Wall Street Journal, Eminent Reality
08.01.2008, HotNews.ro, Lithuania demands Russia USD 28 billion compensation for Soviet occupation
30.07.2007, Karl Peter Schwarz, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Crimes of Slovenian communists in the years following 1945 are still
unaccounted for
27.06.2007 Parliamentary Assembly, Illegal Exploitation of Greek Cypriot Property in the
occupied part of the Republic of Cyprus, Written Declaration No 400
Dan Dimancescu, Commentary: A "First" Worldwide: Condemning Communist Criminality - December 18, 2006
15.04.2007, Javier Espinoza, The Observer, Franco's victims fight again in a war of the obituaries
30.03.2007, Mark Landler,The International Herald Tribune, German company pays Jewish family for Nazi-era confiscation
30.03.2007, The International Herald Tribune, Mark Landler, German company pays Jewish family for Nazi-era confiscation
13.03.2007, Drasko Djenovic, TOL, Pray for Restitution
28.02.2007, BBC, Polish PM vows restitution deal
21.02.2007, Coilin O'Connor, New initiative demands final settlement of disputes between Church and State
14.12.2006, Danny Wood, BBC News, Spain debates Franco reparations
13.12.2006, Hilda Hoy, The Prague Post, Habsburg heir claims castle
31.10.2006 Frankfurter Allgemeine, Deutsche Vertriebene, Die offene Vermögensfrage, Von Reinhard Müller: Gesten und Mienen: Merkel neben Kaczynski 2006
30.10.2006 Expatica, Merkel wants closer energy links with Poland
29.10.2006 Edmonton Journal, Bob Weber, The Canadian Press, Former Polish aristocrats sue CIA over alleged seizure of Warsaw home
$275M suit launched by Canadian family says U.S. conspired with Communists
Press release 19.10.2006, European Remembrance Centre, Alexandra Mareschi, Secretary-General
12.10.2006 Herald Tribune Europe. French lawmakers approve bill on Armenian genocide The Associated Press
02.10.2006 Greens Support Lawsuit Seeking Restitution From Financial Firms That Profited From Slavery
Green Party of the United States, Scott McLarty, Starlene Rankin
The Prague Daily Monitor: Nobleman withdraws claim for Slatinany estate
19.09.2006 American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, Claims conference: Lithuania to pay restitution for property
19.09.2006 BusinessWeek Online, Europe, By William Boston: Final Act Looms in Nazi Restitution Case
06.09.2006 The Jewish Daily, Marilyn Henry,
Pressure Russia To Reveal Looted Art’s Heritage
06.09.2006 Georgi Mitev-Shantek, Southeast European Times: Serbia drags its feet on restitution
05.09.2006 Polish Falcons of America Private Property Restitution Case Dismissed By Courts
28.08.2006 The Associated Press, German retailer vows battle over Jewish property claim in Berlin
24.08.2006 Sofia News Agency, Prosecutors Start Probe into Saxe-Coburg's Property Restitution
20.08.2006 Miami Herald.com Global Lessons on Restitution
August 2006, The Public International Law & Policy Group, Economic Reconstruction: Property Restitution
August 2006 JDC, Achieving Justice Through Property Restitution in Former Yugoslavia
August 2006 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Achieving Justice Through Property Restitution in Former Yugoslavia
29.07.2006 DW-World, Central Europe's Aristocrats Want Ancestral Fortunes Back
21.07.2006 Dinah Spritzer, Around the Jewish World: Bosnian Jews up in arms about restitution law that favors Muslims
18.07.2006, Danny Wood, BBC News, Civil War legacy divides Spain
16.07.2006 Daily News, by Corky Siemanszko, Lost home in Poland
11.07.2006 Ambassador Edward O'Donnell delivered at the annual meeting of the Claims Conference Board of Directors, United States Government Reaffirms Support for Efforts of Claims Conference:
July 2006 Jewish Currents, Daniel Kadden, Controversies over Organizational Accountability
28.06.2006 CTK, Czech diplomats ask Serbia to extend restitution deadline
20.06.2006, Drasko Djenovic, SERBIA: Restitution Law passed
03.05.2006 Source: Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University (RSC), New housing, land and property restitution rights
(from "Forced Migration Review" Issue 25, by Scott Leckie: The UN’s Pinheiro Principles represent the first consolidated global standard on the housing, land and property restitution rights of displaced people.
03.05.2006 Scott Leckie, New housing, land and property restitution rights
18.03.2006 Congressman John Conyers, Jurist. The reparations movement is grounded in the civil rights movement and the social justice movements of the 1960s – 1980s.
04.03.2006 Concurring Opinions,
Reparations within the Rule of Law, by Kaimipono D. Wenger
19.12.2005 United Kingdom Parliament, House of Commons, Column 2490W—continued
01.03.2004 Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jewish Political Studies Review
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