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Российский исследовательский центр по правам человека совместно с Секретариатом международной Сети Домов прав человека объявляют набор для участия в программе дистанционного обучения международному праву прав человека.

A draft law aimed at preventing further violence in China’s troubled northwestern Muslim region seeks to strengthen “ethnic unity” through education and law enforcement, but exiled Uyghurs and overseas experts say the approach won’t work.

The Human Rights House Foundation together with HRH Network members in the Republic of Azerbaijan, Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation and partners in Georgia has launched a new project, Electronic Human Rights Education for Lawyers.

Today Human Rights House Republic of Azerbaijan was visited by Karin Margrethe Bugge, Director General, Adminstrative Affairs Department and Morten Ruud, Secretary General, Ministry of Justice and the Ploice of Norway.

Youth Group of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina marked 9th November, International Day Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism, reminding all B&H citizens on the day when the Holocaust began and sending the message that we are to remember it every day.

The “Kurdish question” requires debate, but it is almost impossibe to discuss it openly. Media have been allowed to use Kurdish language but still forbidden to
discuss Kurdish issues freely, says Reporters Without Borders.

On the night of 18 November, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee announced via Twitter the dramatic news from HR Center Memorial that one of their employees, Russian citizen Bakhrom Khamroev, had been arrested by the Kyrgyz security services, and later that he had been deported to Moscow.

Dmitry Medvedev met with members of the presidential Council for Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights for the second time during the year. The president said that following the results of the first meeting held in April. Representatives of civil society hope their meeting with the president will be as effective as the previous one.

Mikalai Autukhovich, a businessman and a fierce critic of the Belarusian authorities, is accused of preparation for terrorist acts. Civil society has very little information about the case as the defence lawyer had to sign a statement preventing him to share any particulars about the ongoing investigation. Another political prisoner, Artsiom Dubski, is preparing to get married while in custody.