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New charges have been pressed against Mr. Ruslan Bashirli, chairman of the Youth Movement “Yeni Fikir”, who is currently in preliminary detention, reports the International Secretariat of World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT). -We are gravely concerned by the general climate of harassment against members of the youth organisation Yeni Fikir, reads the statement of OMCT. (31-JAN-06)
 

ARTICLE 19 and three other media organisations have issued an open letter to the President of FYR Macedonia regarding the government’s recent draft law on Access to Information. The letter draws attention to the many gaps in the legislation, and calls for an immediate redrafting of the law. ARTICLE 19 reports. (26-JAN-06)
 

As part of HRH´s general ambition to keep expanding its network and increase its regional competence, Project Manager for Africa Niels Jacob Harbitz, right, has applied and been selected for another UNDP/IJ/DJE organised study tour, this time to Somaliland, late March. Harbitz took part on a similar tour of Republic of the Sudan, including visits to Darfur and the Nuba Mountains, last year. (01-FEB-06)
 

Representatives of Russian human rights organizations are calling on all NGOs and concerned individuals to express their support. Please add your signatures – as individuals or organizations – and send this appeal on for others to sign. (01-FEB-06)
 

The Rafto Human Rights House will host an international conference on North Korean Human rights and refugees in Bergen in May. -Our partner, says Sverre Wilhelmsen, right, the coordinator for the conference, -is Citizens Alliance for North Korean Human rights, a South Korean NGO, who has launched annual conferences on the subject since 1999. The previous conferences have been held in Seoul (three times), Tokyo, Prague and Warsaw. (31-JAN-06)
 

-Why doesn’t the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child apply to Northern Republic of Uganda, Mette Newth, right, a board member of HRH asked in the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet yesterday. –The children are beaten into becoming unrecognisable monsters, capable of committing acts of violence your fantasy comes short of imagining. (31-JAN-06)
 

The Rafto Human Rights House in Bergen, Norway, will host an international conference on North Korean Human rights and refugees in May. -Our partner, says Sverre Wilhelmsen, right, the coordinator for the conference, -is Citizens Alliance for North Korean Human rights, a South Korean NGO, who has launched annual conferences on the subject since 1999. Previous conferences have been held in Seoul (three times), Tokyo, Prague and Warsaw. (31-JAN-06)
 

-The attempts by certain politicians and the State Duma Deputies to use the ‘spy scandal’ to discredit NGOs are undermining the interaction between the authorities and civil society, reads the statement signed by 85 Russian representativess Hundreds of individuals, inside and outside the Russian Federation, have also declared their support. Read the statement below. (31-JAN-06)
 

The Norwegian Tibet Committee, one of the organisations of the Human Rights House in Oslo, has played a key part in staging a big exhibition on Tibet, ranging from traditional culture to contemporary society, religious life and political plight. Chungdak Koren, right, Chairwoman of the Tibet Committe, guides through the exhibition and will introduce a film on refugee children Sunday 12 February. (30-JAN-06)