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The international NGO International Crisis Group (ICG) has released its long-expected report on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. One major conclusion of ‘Nagorno-Karabakh: Viewing the conflict from the ground’ is that all sides to the conflict will have to educate, commit and prepare themselves far better for peace for the seeds of the high-level negotiations to bear fruit. (16-SEP-05)
 
  

The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) has today published a set of sixteen interventions to the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which will be held from 19 to 30 September 2005 in Warsaw. (15-SEP-05)
 

-The human rights situation in general, and the freedom of expression situation in particular, is seriously worsened, says international observers. Carl Morten Iversen and Elisabeth Eide; Norwegian PEN’s representatives in the Tunisian Monitoring Group (TMG) have just returned from a five-days’ observation and documentation mission to the North African country. (14-SEP-05) 
  

17 May 1995, the then 6-year old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, also known as Panchen Lama (right), was taken from his home in Tibet by Chinese authorities’ and put into “protective custody”. Panchen Lama has not been seen since. On 19 September, the International Campaign for Tibet confrints the People´s Republic of China, right ahead of the oppressor’s meeting with the UN Committee for the Rights of the Child (CRC) (14-SEP-05)
 

-We are deeply impressed with the standard of Norwegian elections, said the 28 election observers from Central Asia and Caucasus at a press conference at the Norwegian Human Rights House yesterday. -The voting took place in a calm and orderly manner, demonstrating that all actors wanted the procedure to be carried out the best way possible. We have seen no attemps of abusing the system. (14-SEP-05)
 

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina has, on a number of occasions, appealed against the devastating separation of school-age children based on ethnicity. Despite all activities and appeals, the problem has escalated at the beginning of this school year, to the extent that we now have a practice of open segregation and apartheid in Bosnia and Herzegovina. (13-SEP-05)
 

For the whole of 2006, and with a possibility of extending this contract, a full-time post as Project Manager is available at the Human Rights House Foundation’s Secretariat, located at the Norwegian Human Rights House in Oslo.  (13-SEP-05)
 

Building up to the parliamentary elections set for November, more than 20,000  people rallied through the streets of Baku last Saturday, demanding the resignation of PresidentIlham Aliyev and his authoritarian regime. Inspired by the same partisan symbols as in Ukraine the orange stream of demonstrators flowed into Victory Square, uniting their efforts for a free and democratic Republic of Azerbaijan. (12-SEP-05)
 

Building up to the parliamentary elections set for November, more than 20,000 people rallied through the streets of Baku last Saturday, demanding the resignation of President Ilham Aliyev and his authoritarian regime. Inspired by the same partisan symbols as in Ukraine the orange stream of demonstrators flowed into Victory Square, uniting their efforts for a free and democratic Republic of Azerbaijan. (12-SEP-05)