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The UNHCR and the Red Cross of the City of Skopje have made an in-kind donation to Shelter Center which is run by Macedonian Women’s Rights Center (MWRC). With this help, the Shelter became better place for women and children victims of domestic violence.

Законапраект аб рэабілітацыі ахвяр палітычных рэпрэсіяў прыдасца Беларусі не толькі пасля палітычных зменаў. На думку ўдзельнікаў круглага стала, што прайшоў 10-11 красавіка на базе Дома правоў чалавека ў Вільні, такі дакумент ужо цяпер можа паспрыяць паляпшэнню сітуацыі з правамі чалавека ў краіне.

Authorities in the Republic of Congo should immediately lift their ban on private TV station Canal Bénédiction Plus (CB Plus), the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The ban was enacted in February in response to political coverage in the lead-up to presidential elections in July.

Human Rights House Foundation welcomes the 9 April decision of the Baku Appellate Court to annul the ruling of 7 April 2009 by the Yasamal District Court Judge Tahir Ismayilov against Tezadlar newspaper’s Chief Editor Asif Marzili, to free him, and to return the case back to the first instance court for reconsideration.

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (HCHR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina with representatives of civil society from countries throughout South East Europe (SEE), urges the EU to consider integrating all of the SEE countries together. -A simultaneous integration will be the only way to ensure a peaceful, just and secure future for the people of the region, argues the HCHR.

Mahmut Alinak, former Kars province (eastern Turkey) party chair of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), is on trial and facing a possible prison sentence, for a letter he sent Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which he said, “You have deceived the people of Kars.”

Фундацыя Дамоў правоў чалавека і Нарвежскі Хельсінскі Камітэт занепакоеныя абвінавачваннямі, вылучанымі супраць праваабаронцы з Віцебскай вобласці Леаніда Свеціка, і заклікаюць беларускія ўлады правесці празрыстае і бесстаронняе расследаванне.

Deepening rifts in Kenya’s coalition government and a failure to press ahead with promised reforms have given rise to fears that the country could slide back into the kind of violence that claimed more than 1,000 lives and forced about half a million people from their homes after elections in December 2007.

A branch of the Ugandan government that handles its anti-terrorism work is responsible for extended illegal detentions, torture, and other maltreatment at a facility based in a wealthy suburb of the country’s capitol, according to a lengthy report issued by Human Rights Watch (HRW) Wednesday in Kampala.