With us to Baku earlier this month, HRH brought Baard Brinchmann Lovvig, right, a professional photographer, to cover the proceedings of the conference, workshops and network meeting also in pictures. Below, see a selection of his shots from the four intensive days the delegates spent together from 8 to 11 September. (29-SEP-05)

All photos, unless otherwise stated, by Baard Brinchmann Lovvig. Portrait of BBL; Niels Jacob Harbitz.

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Left; Maria Dahle, Executive Director of the Human Rights House Foundation, opening the conference, right; Hina Jilani, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Human Rights Defenders, addressing the audience, Baku, 7 September.


 

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Joseph Manoba, Martin Oluoch and Beatrice Nyabuto with Vugar Gojayev giving an interview to Azeri media after the
unmotivated 10 hour detention of the three Africans at the airport.





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Robin Seaword of the OSCE, left, and Robert Haard of the Swedish Helsinki Committee, right, addressing the opening plenary session at the conference, both highlighting the obstacles caused by Azeri authorities to the country?s human rights defenders.

 

 

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Novella Jafaroglu, a central Azeri human rights defender and a member of the Human Rights House Project in Baku, talks to the audience at the Carpet Museum while surrounded by fellow Azeri human rights defenders.


 


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Musa Gassama of the International Service for Human Rights, Avaz Hasanov of the Azeri human rights organisation Society for Humanitarian Research, Maria Dahle of HRH and Srdjan Dizdarevic of the Human Rights House in Sarajevo addressing Azeri and international media at the press conference.

 


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Left; Avaz Hasanov presenting a statement on behalf of independent Azeri human rights defenders to the press conference, right; Immaculada Barcia of the International Service for Human Rights chairing a workshop on human rights defenders? problems and possible solutions to those.


 

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The opening plenary session at the Network Meeting.

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Tin Gazivoda and Goran Milakovic, both of the emerging Human Rights House in Zagreb, Croatia, Mirsad Pandzic of the Human Rights House in Sarajevo, Bosnia, at the Network Meeting.

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Network contact persons´ workshop. From left: Niels Jacob Harbitz, Oslo, Martin Oluoch, Nairobi, Maria Paramanova, Moscow, Marta Lempicka, Warsaw, Mirsad Pandzic, Sarajevo, Goran Milakovic, Zagreb, Therese Jebsen, Bergen and Natasha Schmidt, London.

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Ane Tusvik Bonde, Project Manager at the HRH Secretariat for, among others, the emerging Human Rights House in Baku, and Maria Dahle, Executive Director of HRH.

 


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View of rally, arranged by the opposition, in favour of free and fair elections. Delegates to the HRH conference, workshops and Network Meeting were present as observers.


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Police lining up to receive the demonstrators at Victory Square in the outskirts of Baku, all under one of the Azeri capital’s many billboards portraying the current President Ilham Aliyev’s father, Heydar Aliyev, in the eyes of loyalists also the father of the nation. Photo: Maria Dahle.