Open Dialogue Foundation
Budget
€1,833,632
EP Access
3
accredited persons
Staff
7
4.6 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
The statutory objectives of the Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF) include the promotion, support, and protection of human rights, democracy, and rule of law in the post-Soviet area and in the EU area, particularly Central and Eastern European countries. ODF pursues its goals through the organisation of observation missions, including election observation and monitoring of the human rights situation in the post-Soviet countries. Significant areas of ODF's activities also include the support programmes for political prisoners and refugees. Based on these activities, ODF creates reports and distributes them among the institutions of the EU, the CoE, the OSCE, the UN and other international organisations, foreign ministries and parliaments, think-tanks, media and CSOs. In addition, ODF is actively engaged in cooperation with members of parliaments involved in foreign affairs, human rights, rule of law, and relationships with the countries of the post-Soviet area.
EU Legislative Interests
EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, EU-Moldova Association Agreement, EU Strategy for Central Asia, EU-Kazakhstan Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, EU policies in the field of migration, refugees and asylum seekers, Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs, policy proposals and laws on the EU personal sanctions on human rights violations and grand corruption, including EU sanctions against Russia, EU policies in the field of competitiveness, cyber-security and AML/CFT laws, protection of privacy online, transnational repression.
Communication Activities
Regular conferences / events / meetings and submissions on democracy / human rights situation in the post-Soviet region countries (e.g. democratic reforms in Ukraine and Moldova, human rights violations in Central Asia, Russia and Eastern Europe), misuse of AML/CFT laws, interstate cooperation and INTERPOL by non-democratic states for transnational repression and financial exclusion, reform of FATF, protection of the rule of law, privacy, competitiveness in EU countries. Those campaigns are carried out both in Brussels and in other EU Member States.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
No memberships or affiliations.
Organisation Members
No networks.
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.