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Nineteen organizations from the “Norwegian NGO Forum” have made recommendations on human rights issues which the Norwegian Government should focus on in this year´s meeting in the UN Human Rights Commission. The NGO forum has focused on five countries, – Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Burundi, Israel and the Ocupied territories, Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Russian Federation, and on five issues, – anti-terror measures, IDP´s, torture, freedom of religion, and neutraliy of humanitarian aid. (29-SEP-04)
 

Nineteen organizations from the “Norwegian NGO Forum” have made recommendations on human rights issues which the Norwegian Government should focus on in this year´s meeting in the UN Human Rights Commission. The NGO forum has focused on five countries, – Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Burundi, Israel and the Ocupied territories, Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Russian Federation, and on five issues, – anti-terror measures, IDP´s, torture, freedom of religion, and neutraliy of humanitarian aid. (30-SEP-04)
 

The Uyghur American Association and the Uyghur Human Rights Project is pleased to congratulate Rebiya Kadeer on winning this year´s Professor Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize. “It´s a great day not only for Rebiya Kadeer, but for all Uyghurs as well,” Nury Turkel, UAA President said. “Wining the Rafto prize is recognition of not only Rebiya Kadeer´s promotion of human rights for the Uyghur people, but it also is further recognition by the world community that the People´s Republic of China is mistreating the Uyghurs.” (29-SEP-2004)

Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) urged European Union member states and the European Commission to condemn China¹s latest crackdown on independent websites and publications at the same time as holding dialogue on human rights with the EU. While no announcement has been made on the outcome of the 24 September meeting in Beijing, the international press freedom organisation urged them to react to a wave of closures of publications and arrests of journalists. (29-SEP-2004)

The election campaigns for local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina , which will take place on Saturday, 2 October 2004, were conducted in a by and large democratic atmosphere characterized by fairness and absence of any major incidents that might have put in question the validity of the elections. (29-SEP-04)
 

In his article, Waiting in Pain, The Guardian´s Moscow correspondent Nick Paton Walsh writes about the protracted conflict between Republic of Armenia and Republic of Azerbaijan that has left families of missing soldiers in agonies of uncertainty. The fate of the so-called “NK missing” has helped keep the two countries´ knives at each other´s throats. Republic of Azerbaijan claims there are 4,959 people “missing” since the war and charges that 783 are still being held captive by Republic of Armenia. Republic of Armenia claims 600 are missing. Republic of Azerbaijan says the Armenian claims they have only held 50 or 60 prisoners at a time are nonsense, as they released 1,086 people between 1993 and 2000. The areticle is published at www.humanrightshouse. org with the consent of the author. (29 Sep 2004)
 

Recently, The Guardian´s Moscow correspondent Nick Paton Walsh wrote an article, “US sidles up to well-oiled autocracy”, which is about the pressures, tortures  used against to oppostion activists,and the depression and hopelessness among the Azerbaijani society after the disputed presidential elections of 2003 in Republic of Azerbaijan. The HRH places this article in its website upon the consent of Nick Paton Walsh. (29 Sep 2004)
 

The election campaigns for local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which will take place on Saturday, 2 October 2004, were conducted mainly in a democratic atmosphere characterized by fairness and absence of any major incidents that might have put in question the validity of the elections. (29-SEP-04)
 

Five prisoners were found dead yesterday in a crowded jail in Meru, Kenya. Despite the Government’s commitment to improve the conditions in the prisons, prisoners in the Republic of Kenya continue to die due to very inhuman living conditions. (28-SEP-04)