Acknowledgements
The Chechnya Justice Project gratefully acknowledges its financial supporters during 2004: Amnesty International Netherlands, the Embassy of the Republic of Germany in Moscow, the Royal Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Royal Norway Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Open Society Institute, Secours Catholique (CARITAS-France), the Swedish Helsinki Committee (from the Swedish International Development Agency), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture.
The project thanks the individuals who offered their time and assistance as interns during 2004, Ole Solvang and Lene Wetteland. Ole Solvang is a graduate student in international affairs and human rights at the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He spent 3 months working in the project’s Moscow office in the summer of 2004. Ole assisted the project’s lawyers in preparing applications to the European Court, drafted two applications to the European Court, updated the project’s website, and completed a research project on the effectiveness of appealing through the Chechen courts the negligence of the procuracy. Lene Wetteland is a graduate student at the University of Bergen in Norway. During her internship in September-December 2004, she also assisted the project’s lawyers in preparing applications to the European Court, helped prepare the project’s December training seminar, and researched the problem of non-investigation of crimes in Chechnya.
The project’s work in 2004 would not be possible without the contributions of our Ingushetia security team, which protects the safety of the project’s staff and clients when in Ingushetia. We are also indebted to our colleagues at the European Human Rights Advocacy Center, Memorial, Human Rights Watch, and the International Helsinki Federation’s Individual Rights Project, who are generous with both their wisdom and their friendship.
The guidance and backing of the members of our advisory committee and committee of recommendation continue to contribute meaningfully to the development and sophistication of the project.
Others who have offered special assistance to the project in 2004 include: Johannes Ahlefeldt, Olga Amsheyeva, Frederike Behr, Anna Berezova, Chris Bowers, Bill Bowring, Kimberly Burstein, Miriam Carrion-Benitez, Mark Alan Brown, Gaelle Feneloux, Maxim Ferschtman, Dokka Itslaev, Aleksei Krasnov, Philip Leach, Roemer LeMaitre, Tanya Lokshina, Sanne Lowenhardt, Anna Olin, Ludmila Polshikova, Maria Pulzetti, Sanja Relic, Timothy Richardson, Stephan Sonnenberg, Natasha Tiurina, Victoria Webb, the staff at Amnesty International-Netherlands, the staff at Secours-Catholique, and numerous others who, for security reasons, cannot be named here.
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