Human Rights in Russia

Mary McAuley is an Associate of the International Centre for Prison Studies and a member of the International Advisory Committee for the website, Rights in Russia. Between 1995 and 2002 she headed the Ford Foundation's Moscow Office, with particular responsibility for the human rights and legal reform programme. Previously she pursued an academic career, including posts at York, Essex, Wisconsin Madison, Berkeley, and St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is the author of Children in Custody: Anglo-Russian Perspectives and Russia's Politics of Uncertainty and Soviet Politics 1917-1991 .

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction

PART I: THE GOLDEN DECADE
1 Perestroika to 1993: Seedbed for Human Rights
2 Human Rights Organizations: First Shoots
3 Early Debates over Rights and Strategies
4 Local Differences, Tackling Isolationism
5 Western Assistance, An Extraordinary Congress

PART II: TAKING STOCK
6 The Civic Forum of 2001: to Tango or to Sit it Out
7 Activists and Popular Attitudes

PART III: ACTIVISTS in ACTION
8 Army and Police Reform
9 Prison Inspectors and Juvenile Courts
10 Domestic Violence, Refugees, the Memorial Society

PART IV: TWENTY YEARS ON
11 Young Lawyers Step Forward
12 Human Rights, Society, and Politics in 2013
Conclusion