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Staff members of HRHF go to Georgia for meetings on the process to establish a Human Rights House in Tblisi. There will also be discussions on how best to follow up on Georgia’s Universal Periodic Review nationally, ahead of the adoption of the report from the country’s UPR, to take place at the UN Human Rights Council’s session in Geneva in June.

There is widespread concern for the safety and well-being of Azerbaijan’s journalist and Honorary Member of English PEN Eynulla Fatullayev. To raise and maintain awareness of Eynulla’s case and of the increasingly poor state of free expression in Azerbaijan, a worldwide ‘Day of Action’ is organised on Wednesday 20 April 2011 – four years since his arrest.

The Human Rights House Tbilisi is inviting journalists (from regions and Tbilisi) to the Workshop on photo-reporting.

Participants of the workshop can represent any media outlet (printed and electronic) from Tbilisi and from different regions of Georgia.

HRH Tbilisi will cover travel expenses of the regional journalists after presenting corresponding financial documentation.

Interested journalists should sent CV, Motivation Letter and 3-5 photos (or a photo-story) with corresponding journalistic work to the following email: mediacentre.hrht@gmail.com

Having a photo camera at the workshop is required.

Workshop will take place at the HRH Tbilisi on April 30, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Address: Tbilisi, Niko Nikoladze str. 7 (entrance from the yard)
Tel: 935227
Deadline for the application: 6 p.m., April 25, 2011

The Human Rights House Tbilisi is inviting journalists (from regions and Tbilisi) to the Workshop on Investigative Journalism.

Participants of the workshop can represent any media outlet (printed and electronic) from Tbilisi and from different regions of Georgia.

HRH Tbilisi will cover travel expenses of the regional journalists after presenting corresponding financial documentation.

Workshop will take place at HRH Tbilisi on April 30, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Address: Tbilisi, Niko Nikoladze str. 7 (entrance from the yard)
Tel: 935227

Interested journalists should sent CV and Motivation Letter to the following email: mediacentre.hrht@gmail.com

Deadline for the application: 6 p.m., April 14, 2011

Join us on every 31st in the calendar to support Freedom of Assembly in Russia.

Join us on the 16th of every month in front of the Norwegian Parliament in Oslo to appeal to the Norwegian authorities to increase their pressure on the Republic of Belarus.

Human Rights house Tbilisi organizes a round table on “Ecological Migration in Georgia”
The round table will be held at the office of Human Rights House Tbilisi (Niko Nikoladze 7) on Wednesday, 6 April, 2011 at 2:00 p.m.
Speakers:
• Rezo Getiashvili- Project Coordinator at Caucasus Environmental NGO Network (CENN)
• Rusudan Mchedlishvili – Article 42 of the Constitution
• Sopho Benashvili – Public Defender’s Office of Georgia
Moderator: Nino Gvedashvili

Human Rights House Tbilisi organizes a round table on “the rights to freedom of speech and expression”.
The round table will be held at the office of Human Rights House Tbilisi (Niko Nikoladze 7) on Friday, 1 April, 2011 at 2:30 p.m.
Speakers:
• Giorgi Gotsiridze – Lawyer of Constitutional Litigation, Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA).
• Tamar Gabisonia – Chairperson of the Article 42 of the Constitution
• Beka Jikia – legal officer at Human Rights Centre
Moderator: Ia Antadze (a journalist from Radio Liberty)

The presentation will be hosted at the Belarusian Human Rights House in Vilnius by the book compilers, Siarhei Lacinski and Anton Kalinousky. The book is containing real stories of real people who served administrative punishment in isolation of lawbreakers at Akrestsin Street in Minsk in 2006-2008.