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Specialists from the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine in the Chernihiv region visited Educational Human Rights House Chernihiv recently, to consider planning joint events in the field of human rights education.

With a focus on the implementation of legal guarantees for human rights lawyers and on the drafting of a Convention on the Profession of the Lawyer, partners of the International Law in Advocacy (ILIA) programme participated in a study visit and expert consultation at the Council of Europe in January 2018.

Seven human rights organisations launched a handbook for journalists covering the football World Cup in Russia.

For students, it’s important that there is a team of teachers and others who are knowledgeable about human rights and who help students to understand rights in their daily lives.

Human Rights House Zagreb has published two reports, one providing in-depth insight into the human rights situation in Croatia, the other a thematic report into primary legal aid in the country.

Civil society organisations and lawyers express serious concern about pressure coming from the Croatian Ministry of Interior (MOI).

Raising concerns about the lack of progress on human rights in Belarus, the European Parliament has demanded that the European Union sets clear benchmarks in its engagement.

As peaceful protests against the long-time rule of Serzh Sargsyan continue in Armenia, authorities today targeted human rights defenders and journalists, adding to arrests and violence against protesters in recent days.

Election monitors in Azerbaijan observed an environment of “increasing restrictions on freedoms of expression, assembly, and association” during last week’s presidential election.