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The Norwegian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Traavik has agreed to speak at HRH´s seminar on the deteriorating human rights situation in the Republic of Azerbaijan. The seminar comes as HRH´s response to the protests, mass arrests and Azerbaijani authorities´ use of torture after the mid-October elections. (24-NOV-03)
  

The majority of the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina´s has received a massive boost to its hope of joining the EU after it was announced that Bruxelles accepts the positive conclusions of the feasibility study, assessing BiH´s suitability for membership. (20-NOV-03)
 

The Ossietzsky prize, named after the Nobel laureate of 1936, the German pacifist and journalist Carl von Ossietzky, murdered by the Hitler regime in 1938, was awarded at the Human Rights House in Oslo today to the municipality of Stavanger, Norway. (19-NOV-03) 
  

Under the leadership of the Helsinki Commitee for Human Rights, the Human Rights House in Sarajevo has realised the pilot project “For Equal Possibilities – Realisation of the Human Rights of People with Special Needs” in the Canton of Tuzla in BiH and in the municipality of Bijeljina in the Republic of Srpska. (18-NOV-03)

Today, on the 18th of November, the President of the European Commission Romano Prodi is hosting a meeting to discuss the possible inclusion of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the European Union. Joining the union will affect the country´s political make-up, its constitution and all bureaucratic institutions (18-NOV-03)
 

To accellerate the process towards opening a human rights house in Kampala, an interim board of more than ten central human rights NGOs covering all key areas of human rights violations in the Republic of Uganda was established late October. The board has already met several times and is about to launch a joint project. (18-NOV-03)
    

Bjørn Engesland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, expresses relief over the Norwegian State Attorney´s decision this week to charge with involuntary manslaughter the 28-year-old police officer involved in the fracas that lead to Tomasz Wacko´s death. Wacko, left, died on the 5th of June from prolonged lack of oxygen. (15-NOV-03)
 

On November 3rd, 2003, Judge Petr Shtunder of the Moscow City Court began hearings on the case of Igor Sutyagin, who is accused by the Russian Security Service, FSB, of treason. During the first day the court selected the jury. On November 4th the judge gave floor to the prosecutors, who started presenting their case. Almost immediately the judge had to declare a break and adjourn the hearings until November 5th. (10-NOV-03)
 

The leader of Amnesty International in the Republic of Turkey, Özlem Dalkiran, is hoping for democracy proper to take hold in the Republic of Turkey within the next decade. Dalkiran, who participated in HRH Foundation´s annual network meeting in Bergen recently, says a forthcoming EU membership will force Republic of Turkey to rid itself of its longstanding undemocratic practices. (09-NOV-03)