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Many women in Iraqi Kurdistan still undergo traditional genital mutilation, shows the data collected by WADI association. The research was conducted in 2005 by teams of trained personnel in villages and small areas in the Kurdish region in Iraq. Traveling to affected areas also involved providing women with information film about the damage of female genital mutilation.

Another seminar within the program focuses on Council of Europe’s institutions, European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its additional protocols, European Court of Human Rights, decisions of UN Human Rights Committee considering freedom of expression, freedom of expression in Belarus de jure and de facto, etc.

A unique chance to see a reading of the powerful play ‘Look Europe’ by the Iranian playwright Ghazi Rabihavi. The play is based on what happened to English PEN’s Honorary Member Faraj Sarkohi, editor of Adineh, the only independent journal in Iran, when he was arrested in 1996 and accused of spying.

16-18 октября 2009 года в Доме прав человека состоится очередная обучающая сессия в рамках программы “Применение международного права в правозащитной деятельности”.

This fall’s campaign of Amnesty International Region Vest (Bergen, Norway) focuses on Shell’s human rights violations in the Niger Delta.

On the 12-30th of October, 2009 UN Human Rights Committee reviews Russia during its 97th session in Geneva. Russian Research Center for Human Rights organizations had submitted to the Committee in advance an NGO report, entitled “Replies to the list of issues” (right), which emphasized the most dire human rights problems in the country.
Lyudmila Alpern, the Chief Manager of Prisons’ Visiting Program of Russian Research Center for Human Rights (RRCHR), will be present at a review in Geneva. In her presentation she will touch upon specific issues, regarding problems of public control over the places of detention in Russia (last year the Law “On public control over the places of forced imprisonment” was passed in Russia). In accordance with the Law in more then half of Russian regions Public Supervising Committees were organized. Alpern will report on the progress achieved with regard to conditions of detention of persons deprived of their liberty for the recent years and share the experience in the sphere of public control over the closed establishments with other participants

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The right to clean water is in the middle of lectures, debates and other events.