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The Norwegian Helsinki Committee examines Kazakhstan’s commitments considering the protection of tolerance, justice, freedom of speech and assembly during its chairmanship in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The Committee also analyses what Norway can do to make Republic of Kazakhstan conscious about their responsibility and to improve situation in these areas.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued its report on journalists and media workers who died in the exercise of journalism in 2009. The report provides detailed information of media killings, including 32 victims of a single massacre in Manguindanao, the Philippines, last November.

English PEN protests the one-year prison sentence handed down to Peruvian “Nor Oriente” editor Alejandro Carrascal Carrasco on 12 January 2010 for alleged “aggravated defamation” of a local official. There were a number of apparent irregularities in the trial and it is widely believed that Carrascal’s conviction is in retaliation for his criticism of the authorities.

On 29 January a trial of Ivan Mikhailau, who refused the compulsory military conscription due to his religious beliefs, began in the Minsk regional court. Several European civic and human rights organisations have signed an open letter to the Belarusian president Aliaksandr Lukashenka in support of Mikhailau and others, who were prosecuted for refusal of taking up arms and joining the army because of their faith.

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H strongly condemns the use of hate speech against journalist, Duska Jurisic, right, who was recently dismissed from the position of editor-in-chief of News Program of Television of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FTV).

29 студзеня пачаліся судовыя разбіральніцтвы па справе Івана Міхайлава, які па рэлігійных прычынах адмовіўся несці службу ў беларускім войску. Шэрагам еўрапейскіх грамадскіх і праваабарончых арганізацыяў быў падпісаны адкрыты ліст да Прэзідэнта Беларусі Аляксандра Лукашэнкі ў падтрымку Івана Міхайлава і іншых, якія пераследуюцца за адмову ісці ў войска і браць у рукі зброю з-за рэлігійных перакананняў.

Impunity is an urgent issue facing press freedom campaigners. Joel Simon of the Committee to Protect Journalists outlines a roadmap for action and reflects on the first year and a half of the CPJ’s global campaign against impunity, as multiple challenges are being faced by free expression in the Russian Federation, Philippines, Latin America and elsewhere in the world.

Istrian people with disabilities finally have the opportunity to take the driving test in adjusted cars and classrooms. The ceremony in occassion of the new APEO project “Invalid Plus – Driving School for All” was held on Monday in front of the adjusted classrooms of the Croatian Automobile Club – HAK building in Pula.

HRH Zagreb organized a round table today, on “Encouraging the elimination of all forms of violence”. The round table is part of the pilot project “I listen, I hear, I understand”, implemented by B.a.B.e. and financially supported by the Ministry of Family, Veterans and Intergenerational Solidarity – MOBMS.