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On March 11, US Department of State published annual human rights report which covers the situation in Georgia as well. The report speaks about deterioration of human rights situation in the country. The report focuses on various grave violations among them is the excessive use of force, arbitrary arrest, politically motivated imprisonments, etc.

Hu Jia is one of thousands of prisoners of conscience in the People´s Republic of China. Some may know his name from the the People´s Republic of China campaign, organized by Amnesty during the Olympics in the People´s Republic of China in 2008. He is still imprisoned for having exercised his freedom of speech. Amnesty group at Voss has not forgotten him and wants to show that for his wife and the whole world by organizing a skiing trip.

Karen communities in 10 countries joined forces for a global day of action on 9 March 2010, calling on the international community to take action to stop new attacks by the Burmese Army against Karen civilians. According to them, more than 2,000 civilians have been forced to flee new attacks since mid January. Karen Communities Worldwide believes dictatorship is trying to crush all resistance forces to their rule before elections due later this year.

The 56 OSCE participating States appointed today Dunja Mijatovic (on right) of Bosnia and Herzegovina as the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.

Within the framework of the project „Monitoring of War Crime Trials in the Processes of Dealing With the Past“ in the period between April 2004 and 31 December 2009, Documenta monitored a total of 68 cases at county courts in the Republic of Croatia which represents about 77.2 % of all cases that were conducted during that period or are still ongoing.

”Equal pay for equal work – Votes for Women – We want women’s human rights every day – Stop violence against women”, were just some of many slogans that we could’ve seen and heard on the Osmomartovski march organized by CURE Foundation on Monday in Sarajevo, in occasion of the International Women’s Day.

The International PEN Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) presents a caselist summarising all recorded attacks against writers, journalists and publishers in the period July to December 2009. The caselist also includes the total figures of attacks for the period January to December 2009. The caselist shows a slight and in some cases remarkable increase of attacks in 2009, compared with 2008.

On March 10th, the British, French and the US Ambassadors visited the Human Rights Center (HRIDC) to meet the NGO representatives and discuss the situation of human rights defenders in Georgia.

Меркаванне ЕС і Рады Еўропы пра скасаванне смяротнага пакарання ў Беларусі не будзе вырашальнае. Пра гэта заявіў 3 сакавіка 2010 года кіраўнік парламенцкай працоўнай групы па абмеркаванні праблематыкі смяротнай кары Мікалай Самасейка. У той жа час, змена рыторыкі афіцыйнай Беларусі ў дачыненні да вышэйшай меры пакарання – відавочная.