Events
The Foreign Policy Centre holds events to engage the public in debates around key international affairs issues. These include seminars, conferences, keynote speeches and expert roundtables. The majority of events will take place in London but the FPC will work with partners to hold events in other UK Cities and internationally. To listen to recordings of previous events visit our YouTube page or click on past events. For general enquiries about our events, please email: events@fpc.org.uk.
Spotlight on Chechnya: Kadyrov’s crackdown on human rights
The Foreign Policy Centre and Civil Rights Defenders are organising an important seminar to shine a spotlight on the deteriorating human rights situation in the Russian Republic of Chechnya. Since coming to power in 2007 the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has imposed order in the wake of two bloody wars with Russia through a mix of lavish spending and the establishment of a brutal local dictatorship. Chechnya has long been ...
More infoLana Estemirova, daughter of murdered human rights activist Natalia Estemirova
Oleg Orlov, Head of the ‘Hot Spots’ program, Memorial
Olga Sadovskaja, Deputy Head, Committee Against Torture
Chair: Stephen Doughty MP, Member for Cardiff South and Penarth
Committee Room 11, House of Commons, Westminster, London, SW1A 0AA
Opening up Russia: Access to information and the fight for transparency
The Foreign Policy Centre and ARTICLE 19 are delighted to host a Westminster seminar exploring the ways in which citizens and journalists in Russia can hold their local and national government to account. On paper Russia’s 2010 Law ‘on Providing Access to Information on the Activities of State Bodies and Bodies of Local Self-Government’ has provided citizens with the right to request and receive information, setting out a clear procedure ...
More infoIvan Pavlov, Human Rights Lawyer and Head of Team 29
Tatiana Tolsteneva, Project Coordinator, Team 29
Gregory Shvedov, Editor in Chief of Caucasian Knot
David Banisar, Senior Legal Counsel, ARTICLE 19
Chair: Stephen Gethins MP, Foreign Affairs Select Committee and Scottish National Party International Affairs and Europe Spokesperson
Committee Room 8, House of Commons, Westminster, London, SW1A 0AA
Closing the door: the challenge facing activists from the former Soviet Union seeking asylum or refuge
This event will examine how countries, particularly in Europe, are making it more difficult for activists and others from the former Soviet Union who are at risk of persecution to seek refuge or secure asylum. It will discuss at the ways in which countries are increasingly sending those at risk back to their country of origin, sometimes misusing the concepts of ‘Internal Protection’ and ‘safe third countries’ . The event will explore the need for asylum systems to ...
More infoClaire Rimmer Quaid, ECRE Senior Policy and Project Officer, European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)
Dr Leila Alieva, Academic Visitor, St Anthony’s College, University of Oxford
Dr Saipira Furstenberg, Postdoctoral fellow and Project Manager, Central Asian Political Exiles project, University of Exeter
Chair: Baroness Stern CBE, Secretary, All Party Parliamentary Group on Human Rights
Committee Room 5, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA