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After the 1 April welcoming by the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the Security Council?s resolution 1593 (2005) referring the situation in Darfur to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Republic of the Sudan was always going to be among the most difficult issues at the recently concluded 61st session in Geneva. (25-APR-05)
   

The UN Commission on Human Rights concluded its annual session for 2005 on Friday in Geneva. The Human Rights House Foundation (HRH) followed debates in Geneva on impunity , North Korea, Republic of Uganda , Colombia , Republic of the Sudan , Republic of Belarus, and human rights defenders . (25-APR-05)
 

On Friday, the UN Commission on Human Rights expressed its alarm at reported violations of the rights to life, personal integrity, freedom and security, due process, privacy and intimacy, as well as reported breaches of fundamental freedoms of movement, residence, opinion and expression in Colombia. It adopted a so-called Chairperson´s Statement on the situation of human rights in Colombia. (25-APR-05)
 

British networks broadcast far-right British National Party (BNP) election propaganda ahead of the country´s 5 May elections despite the opposition of anti-fascist groups. For the BNP has qualified for the legal right to airtime for its election material, and as long as it passes technical standards and does not breach race hate or libel laws, the networks are obliged to show it. Index on Censorship’s Rohan Jayasekera reports. (26-APR-05)

In April, first Kiev (the Ukraine) and then three Polish cities: Torun, Olsztyn and Kielce are hosting the screenings of documentaries from the repertoire of the Warsaw-based International Film Festival „Human Rights in Film”, organized by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. (23-APR-05)

The U.N. Commission on Human Rights on Thursday censured North Korea for “widespread and grave violations” – including torture, executions and forced abortions – drawing a sharp rebuke from the secretive communist state. The resolution urged Pyongyang to cooperate with its special investigator on the Democratic Republic of Korea. (22-APR-2005)
 

In April, documentaries from the Warsaw-based International Film Festival „Human Rights in Film”, organized by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, will be set up in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and in three Polish cities. (22-APR-05)
 

The United Nations on Thursday censured North Korea for “widespread and grave violations” – including torture, executions and forced abortions – drawing a sharp rebuke from the secretive communist state. The U.N. Commission on Human Rights, whose 53 member states are holding an annual session, urged Pyongyang to cooperate with its special investigator on the Democratic Republic of Korea.  The resolution, brought by the European Union (EU) and Japan, was adopted by a vote of 30 countries in favor, nine against and 14 abstentions, including South Korea. (21-april-2005)

On 14 June, a press conference with His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be held at the Norwegian Human Rights House. Tibet’s spiritual and political leader has been invited to Norway by the Norwegian Tibet Committee and the Norwegian Parliament’s Tibet Committee. (21-APR-05)