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Barys Zvozskau, right, president of the exile Belarusian Human Rights House in Vilnius, Lithuania, has received an award from the organisation Human Rights Alliance for his long-term commitment and achievements to human rights advocacy. The journalist Siamion Pechanko and the advocate Tamara Sidarenka also received the award.

“Праваабарончы альянс”, які ўзначальвае Людміла Гразнова, будзе ўручаць прэміі за пасьпяховую працу ў галіне абароны правоў чалавека.

At Council of Europe’s third ‘Regional Congress of NGOs,’ Russian NGOs and civil society organizations from across Europe shared their good practices and most effective methods of interaction with the authorities. Some Russian NGOs stayed away from the Congress, claiming its agenda was too loyal to Russian authorities.

Slobodan Franovic (on right), President of the Montenegrin Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, reacts quite strongly against his own country’s recent hearing before United Nations’ Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review mechanism in Geneva.

A Croat survivor of a 1991 mass murder testified Monday that Serb fighters beat and tortured civilians before forcing them into a mine field, where they died.

Bulgaria is not preventing an association of Macedonians in Bulgaria from registering as a political party. They are refusing to do so, Bulgaria’s Prime Minister claims.

Thirteen years after the United States brokered the Dayton peace agreement to end modern Europe’s most ferocious ethnic war, fears are mounting that Bosnia and Herzegovina, poor and divided, is again teetering toward crisis.

Peace activists in northern Republic of Uganda have criticised a weekend air and ground assault by the armed forces of Republic of Uganda, Southern Republic of the Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) against several Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) camps in north-eastern DRC. Right, LRA boy soldiers at Rikwangba, southern Republic of the Sudan.

Eight journalists were arrested on Monday as police broke up demonstrations against the Republic of Kenya Communications (Amendment) Bill, 2008, which is designed to limit media freedom. Right, journalists running for cover from the teargas fired into the crowds by the riot police.