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– Human rights education work constitutes an important investment towards fostering just societies in which all human rights of all persons are valued and respected, said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour (right), at a conference in Murmansk initiated by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee. (16-APR-07)
 

In its fourth report on freedom of expression conditions in Tunisia, the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) Tunisian Monitoring Group (TMG) concludes that it is still increasingly important that free expression and human rights groups, as well as the international community at large still keep monitoring developments in Tunisia. (11-APR-07)
 

The Human Rights House concept was welcomed by Afghan human rights defenders when The Human Rights House Foundation visited Kabul last month together with the Norwegian PEN. Najia Haneefi (right ) was one of many women working for women’s rights who said she feels isolated and stigmatized and needs a stronger regional and international network.(16-APR-07)
 

Police violently quashed an opposition march near Pushkin Square on Saturday 14th of March, beating and detaining more than 100 people. Yesterday the police violently clashed with protesters in St. Petersburg.  The Dissenters’ Marches this weekend are the third and forth in recent months to be suppressed or violently dispersed by the police.  (16-APR-07).
 

Tomorrow at 14:00, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the Human Rights Committee of the Norwegian Medical Association co-host a seminar at the Human Rights House in Oslo on Human Rights Developments in the Republic of Turkey: The Impact of the EU Reform Process on the Fight Against Torture. From Republic of Turkey, the two key speakers are Yavuz Önen, President, and Metin Bakkalci, Executive Director of the Turkish Human Rights Foundation. (15-APR-07)
  

7th April a rally in memory of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who perished exactly six months ago, was held in the center of Moscow. Participants of the rally recalled all journalists killed in post-Soviet the Russian Federation and they also demanded a stop to persecutions of political prisoners and to violence in the Chechen Republic. (14-APR-07)
 

The War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court pronounced sentences  for the four accused members of the “Scorpions” unit, who had shot six Bosniak detainees from Srebrenica in July 1995 at Godinjske bare near Trnovo, and acquitted one indictee. (12-APR-07)
 

The War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court pronounced sentences  for the four accused members of the “Scorpions” unit, who had shot six Bosniak detainees from Srebrenica in July 1995 at Godinjske bare near Trnovo, and acquitted one indictee. (12-APR-07)

On the 3 April public activist, former member of the Parliament Andrei Klimau was arrested in Minsk. He is charged with appealing via the mass media to overthrow or forcibly change the constitutional regime. This is the first time in the modern Belarusian history that statements allegedly made in an Internet publication are used by prosecutors, and an indication of how the law can be used to infringe on the freedom of expression. (11-APR-07)