Coalition Against Hate is a partnership of human rights organizations that was designed and launched by UCSJ and MHG in Moscow in consultation with other human rights NGOs (non-governmental organizations). This blog serves as a vital means of communication allowing the Coalition to share and publish critical information about antisemitism, xenophobia and religious discrimination. Our Mission provides more information on the goals of the Coalition, but you can read more about the founding partners below.

UCSJ: Since its founding in 1970 as the "voice of the Refuseniks in the West," UCSJ has been the principal Jewish grassroots human rights NGO working across the FSU that specializes in monitoring all the issues that are the subject of the blog. In 1989, UCSJ convened its international annual meeting in Moscow, the first public conference by an international human rights NGO in Soviet history, and at that meeting, UCSJ also provided the Soviet dissident leadership (the original Moscow Helsinki Group) its first public conference in Soviet history. In 1990, UCSJ established in Moscow the first of its FSU-wide bureaus on human rights and rule of law; it was the first western human rights NGO to officially register an office on Soviet soil. Since then UCSJ and MHG have developed monitoring networks across Russia in partnership. UCSJ has also established human rights monitoring bureaus in Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Latvia. UCSJ's program can be found on its website, fsumonitor.com, which gathers between 4,000 and 6,000 hits daily. UCSJ publishes periodic country human rights reports, daily bulletins, and a weekly electronic newsletter, Bigotry Monitor. UCSJ regularly briefs the U.S. Administration and Congress and its reports are cited in the State Department human rights and religious freedom annual country reports.

UCSJ blog contributors:
• Yosef I. Abramowitz, President
• Micah H. Naftalin, National Director
• Leonid Stonov, Director and Coordinator of UCSJ's International Human Rights Bureaus
• Nickolai Butkevich, Research and Advocacy Director
• Natasha Zanegina, Director of UCSJ's Moscow Representation

Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG): The oldest human rights umbrella NGO in Russia, MHG is the successor to the original Helsinki Watch Group headed by such famed dissidents as Sakharov, Orlov and Sharansky. Ludmilla Alexeeva, who is the chair of MHG and the immediate past president of the International Helsinki Federation, was, prior to her exile, a founding member of that most influential dissident organization. MHG's mission is to monitor human rights violations and promote the building of civil society in the Russian Federation. They coordinate a network of nearly 1,000 local human rights monitoring and advocacy NGOs across Russia.

MHG Blog Contributors:
• Ludmilla Alexeeva, Chair
• Daniel Mesheryakov, Developing Programs Director
• Nina Tagankina, Executive Director
• Olga Kogan, Program Coordinator

Youth Human Rights Movement, Voronezh, Russia:
Youth Network Against Racism and Intolerance: The objective of these inter-related NGOs is to mobilize pro-democracy, human rights and anti-fascist youth organizations. Democracy, tolerance and rule of law in the former Soviet Union cannot be expected to flourish so long as these countries' well organized xenophobic, antisemitic and racist youth continue to gain momentum while the majority of youth of high school and college age remain unengaged. An estimated 140 extremist youth groups and the impunity of tens of thousands of rampaging neo-Nazi skinheads head the long list of concerns. These NGOs help to build and mobilize an effective coalition of youth organizations comprising integrated communications, access to human rights and anti-fascist monitoring and education, analytical research and assessments, provision of legal defense, training workshops and public conferences, extensive publishing and coordination with both the mainstream human rights and business communities but also relevant government ministries, ombudsmen, and the media.

Blog contributors:
• Andrew Yurov, Chair
• Alexey Kozlov, Deputy Chair