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Marking 10th December as the international Day of Human Rights, Croatian Helsinki Committee handed over it’s annual awards for special credit and contribution in promoting human rights in the Republic of Croatia. (13-DEC-04)
 

The Norwegian newspaper VG has as its front page story today that Carl Hugo Lund, the judge who conducted the proceedings against the police officer accused of involuntary manslaughter of former Norwegian Helsinki Committee employee Tomasz Wazcko, has been reprimanded for his arrogance and sarcasms in court, especially against the prosecutor. Lund’s behaviour may have affected the jurisdiction in some of his cases. (13-DEC-04)
  

On 10 December, the universally observed Human Rights Day, Amnesty International’s international secretariat issued a statement expressing outrage with the enactment, the previous day, of a new law, which bans foreign human rights organizations from working in Zimbabwe. The law, covered earlier on this website, may also be used to shut down local human rights group. (13-DEC-04)
 

Municipal elections will be held in the Republic of Azerbaijan on December 17, 2004.  According to the Central Election Commission (CEC), 21650 members to 2735 municipalities will be elected during the polls. At present, there are a total of 4,462,000 electorates in the Republic of Azerbaijan. During the elections, 38,866 candidates will run for municipal seats. (10-DEC-2004)
 

The World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) and
Azerbaijan Federation of Human Rights Organizations (AFHRO) express their concerns regarding violence against women in the Republic of Azerbaijan at the 33rd session of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights(CESCR). (10-DEC-2004)
 

The World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) and
Azerbaijan Federation of Human Rights Organizations (AFHRO) express their concerns regarding violence against women in the Republic of Azerbaijan at the 33rd session of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights(CESCR). (10-DEC-04)
 

-The donor community need to support the civil society movement in the Republic of Kenya. That is the only way that we can develop a critical mass of well informed people who can act as checks and balances to Government, said Professor Wangari Maathai in her acceptance speech at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony this afternoon. Maathai also emphasised the connections between environmental and land rights issues, poverty, social unrest and conflict. (10-DEC-04)
 

RSF/IFEX: RSF has called for the immediate release of independent journalist Mikhail Afanassiev, who was arrested as he prepared to travel to Moscow to receive the Glasnost Defence Foundation’s Sakharov Prize.(10-DEC-04).
 

Vienna: The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the Belarusian Helsinki Committee (BHC) express their grave concern over the ongoing harassment of human rights defenders in the Republic of Belarus. (7-DEC-2004)