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A group of human rights experts from around the world gathered in Seoul on Monday for a three-day forum to discuss the human rights conditions in North Korea. Organized by several colleges and civic groups in South Korea, the 6th International Conference on North Korean Human Rights and Refugees is aimed at shedding light on the human rights abuse prevalent in the communist state. (14-FEB-05)
 

Several NGOs in Bosnia and Herzegovina want fascist organizations and hate speech to be banned. – The attempts to revise the history and rehabilitate the forces that had been historically defeated in the Second World War, has increased the past few months, the organizations warn. (14-FEB-05) 
 

A court case of a prison inmate vs. a midwife and a doctor from prison in Grudziadz who neglected their duties – which resulted in death of an unborn child – begun last Wednesday in Grudziadz. Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights sent a representative to observe the trial. (12-FEB-05)
 

A court case of a prison inmate vs. a midwife and a doctor from prison in Grudziadz who neglected their duties – which resulted in death of an unborn child – begun last Wednesday in Grudziadz. Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights sent a representative to observe the trial. (12-FEB-05)

Again, lustration has become a hot issue of political debates and discussions throughout Republic of Poland. What contributed to it was the fact that a list of persons who cooperated or were recruited for cooperation with the Security Service (Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa) during the communist period has been taken out of the Institute of National Remembrance. (12-FEB-05)

The special working group of the Parliamentary Committee for Internal Affairs and National Security is opening an investigation today of Croatian Counter Intelligence service (CIS). The principal cause for the investigation is the recent public address of five journalists who were the subject of secret treatment of the CIS during 2003 and 2004, under the allegation that they have deliberately published wrong information about Hague fugitive general Gotovina in order to obstruct Republic of Croatia to enter the European Union. (11-FEB-05)
 

Exactly ten years ago, on February 11, 1995, 55 founders of the Helsinki Committee gathered in one of the spaces of the National Theatre in Sarajevo, and adopted a decision to establish the first non-governmental organization in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a mission to protect and promote human rights and freedoms. They took this decision in the midst of the besieged city of Sarajevo, guided by their belief that such an organization that would gather the citizens on such a basis, would indeed be more than necessary in Bosnia and Herzegovina, once it starts healing its war wounds and establishing a democratic society in which each and every individual would and should enjoy all the rights provided for in international conventions.

Representatives of the Ukrainian newborn democracy expressed optimism at a seminar hosted by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs this morning. (10-FEB-05)
 

“I am sure the newly opened Resource Center in Goychay district will serve as a contribution to enhance the respect for human rights in the region in general and the development of civil society specifically and the promotion of democracy. Hopefully, the local NGOs in Goychay could benefit from establishment of the Resource Center” says Novella Jafaroglu Appelbaum, Marshall Prize winner and the director of the Association for the Protection of Women’s Rights after D. Aliyeva (APWR) (10-FEB-2005).