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Rights of the child not fully respected
Interview with Dragi Zmijanac, Director of the First Children’s Embassy in the World Megjashi.
CourtWatch program – release of report on commercial divisions of Polish courts
On 24 March 2009 the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights released a report from monitoring of the commercial divisions of all Polish courts. Monitoring was implemented in cooperation with law firm DLA Piper.
WPFC protests illegal incarceration of Sudanese editor
The World Press Freedom Committee – an umbrella organization representing 45 press freedom groups from throughout the world – expresses its profound concern for the fate of Alhaj Warrag, editor-in-chief of “Ajras El-Hurriyya” independent newspaper, who was arrested on March 19 and taken into custody as part of an abusive court procedure.
JED denounces attempts to silence the media during Congo’s political crisis
Journaliste en Danger (JED) is concerned about attempts to silence media outlets during the current parliamentary crisis, and in particular, to stifle all reporting on the president of the National Assembly, Vital Kamerhe. Kamerhe is at the centre of the parliamentary crisis sparked by the efforts of his own party, the Alliance for the Presidential Majority (AMP) to force his resignation.
Zbigniew Hołda and Marek Antoni Nowicki honoured for contributions to the defence of human rights
Marek Antoni Nowicki, former President of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, has been awarded the Edward J. Wende Award, while Professor Zbigniew Hołda, the Foundation’s current Vice-President, right, has been awarded the ‘Nagroda Tolerancji’ Award for promoting Tolerance, and the ‘Złoty Paragraf’ Advocate of the Year Award.
2390 executions in 2008 worldwide, 72 per cent in China
More people were executed in Asia than in any other part of the world in 2008. the People´s Republic of China carried out more executions than the rest of the world put together. By contrast, in Europe, only one country continues to use the death penalty: Republic of Belarus.
Nobel Prize Committee protests South Africa’s refusal of visa to Dalai Lama
Latest 11:00 GMT: The organisers of the conference mentioned below has just confirmed their decision to cancel the event. In the announcement, made in Johannesburg this morning, the diplomatic tension that has emerged between South Africa and the People´s Republic of China over the visa to HH Dalai Lama, right, was given as the reason for the cancellation. Read yesterday’s press release from the Norwegian Tibet Committee below.
Fighting the white plague in Macedonia
In 2008, the Government of the Republic of Macedonia has developed a Strategy on Demographic Development of the Republic of Macedonia 2008 – 2015. The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in FYR Macedonia asks whether the Government really has a strategy or is this just another ad hoc measure that will be hardly implemented in practice.
Tibetan writer Kunga Tseyang arrested
Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of Tibetan writer Kunga Tseyang on 17 March 2009, and the re-arrest of Jigme Gyatso, a monk who helped Dhondup Wangchen make “Leaving fear behind,” a 2008 documentary featuring interviews with more than 100 Tibetans, including monks and elderly people.