OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism invoked to look into alleged human rights violations in Russian Federation’s Chechen Republic

Sixteen OSCE participating States invoked the OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism on 1 November 2018 to look into alleged human rights violations in the Chechen Republic, Russian Federation.

The Moscow Mechanism, last invoked in 2011 in relation to Belarus, provides the opportunity for participating States to send missions of experts to assist in the resolution of a particular question or problem relating to the human dimension. For further information, please see: https://www.osce.org/odihr/human-dimension-mechanisms

Any information relevant to the work of the Moscow Mechanism can be sent to the following email address: moscowmechanism2018@odihr.pl. The information will then be forwarded to the expert mission, once established.

The sixteen countries who have invoked the Moscow Mechanism in this case are Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.