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Refugee Law Project, one of the human rights organisations involved in the joint effort to establish a human rights house in Kampala, Republic of Uganda, launches its eleventh Working Paper; “Behind the Violence: Causes, Consequences and the Search for Solutions to the War in Northern Uganda” today. (4-FEB-04)
 

Casa Alianza, the organisation for which Bruce Harris, the human rights defender who was acquitted last Friday, is working, has issued a statement on the case. So obviously related to freedom issues was Harris´s case that human rights agencies from all over the world sent urgent appeals on his behalf. (3-FEB-04)
  

Unnecessarily prolonged court procedures is one of the most frequent violations of fundamental human rights in the Republic of Poland. In his report from Republic of Poland, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Alvaro Gil-Robles summarized the Polish judicial system like this: Slow justice is often equivalent to no justice at all. (02-FEB-04)
 

With the Union of Comoros’s late December ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights stating that an African Human Rights Court will be established as soon as fifteen states has ratified the protocol, such a court is now in the making. This may prove to be a major step towards strengthening the respect for human rights in Africa. (2-FEB-04)
 

Bruce Harris, the England-born human rights defender charged with defamation and for whom the plaintiff, at his client´s request, had suggested eight years´ imprisonment followed by immediate deportation and also $ 125.000 in damages, left the court as a free man last Friday following worldwide appeals from the international human rights movement´s for him to be able to do so. (2-FEB-04)
   

HRH belongs to the international human rights agencies now welcoming last Friday´s announcement by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that he will investigate and prosecute crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in the context of the conflict in northern Republic of Uganda. (2-FEB-04)
 

Bosnia and Herzegovina has been given its first seat among the judges at the European Court for Human Rights. Professor Ljiljana Mijovic won the majority of the BiH Parliament`s votes and intends to represent her country throughout her six years´ appointment. (30-JAN-04)
 

Two representatives from the HRH secretariat leave tomorrow for South Africa. Executive director Maria Dahle and project manager Berit Lindeman will attend the World Movement for Democracy´s Third Assembly in Durban, but also visit human rights organisations in Cape Town, Pretoria and Johannesburg, all with a long term view to include these organisations in the HRH network. (30-JAN-04)
  

This morning, HRH was informed that human rights defender Bruce Harris, working for the Catholic charity Coventant House / Casa Alianza in Guatemala, may face eight years´ imprisonment if sentenced according to the accusers´ requirements. Read HRH’s urgent appeal faxed to President Oscar Berger. (30-JAN-04)