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The Norwegian Burma Committee is lobbying against backing vicious practice of oil and gas companies in the military-ruled state. French Total, linked to killings, corruption and exploiting forced labor in Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar), must be pressed by the Government Pension Fund (Petroleum Fund), says the Committee’s Director Inger Lise Husøy.

Women of Azarmehr have launched a campaign in support of thirteen Kurdish political prisoners who are believed to be on death row.

Aggravated homosexuality will be punished by death, according to a new bill tabled in Parliament yesterday. The private member’s bill was tabled by Ndorwa West MP David Bahati (NRM). A person commits aggravated homosexuality when the victim is a person with disability or below the age of 18, or when the offender is HIV-positive.

Mahammad Gurbanov, a 55-year-old resident of Nakhchivan City who was placed in a psychiatric hospital by police on 11 September 2009, was released on World Mental Health Day, on 10 October, after 29 days in detention.

Center for Peace, Non-Violence and Human Rights Osijek, Nansen Dialogue Center Osijek, Luc Berak and Documenta Zagreb, have held two meetings (in Vukovar and in Pakrac) on behalf of the coalition for initiative for establishing a Regional Commission for Truth-seeking and Truth-telling About War Crimes (RECOM) in post-Yugoslav countries.

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti condemned today recent criminal defamation trials in the Republic of Azerbaijan

A court ruling today affirmed popular science writer Simon Singh’s, right, right to free expression. He has been granted leave to appeal in the libel action brought against him by the British Chiropractic Association.

Although the Canton of Sarajevo is ahead of other cantons in Bosnia and Herzegovina with regards to the level of achieved realization of human rights and freedoms, according to the latest report of the Serbian Civic Council – Movement for Equality, the situation in the Canton is still not satisfying.

ARTICLE 19, the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) and Freedom Forum (FF) strongly condemn the Government of Nepal’s intentions to use journalists as informants, to help implement its Special Security Plan. This would significantly increase the already seriously hazardous working environment for journalists. It is also contrary to international standards, as well as the Agenda for Change, launched by ARTICLE 19, FNJ and FF in February 2009.