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An exhibition of photography, art and short documentary films. Exhibition ends on 6 November.

Human Rights House Network and the Observatory are organising a side event in Warsaw entitled “Addressing pressure on Human Rights Defenders in the Caucasus”.

Human Rights House Network representatives participate at the OSCE Human Implementation meeting in Warsaw, Poland.

Human Rights House Foundation and a representative of the international Advisory Board of the Human Rights House Network go on a visit to the Human Rights House in Baku.

The international Advisory Board of the Human Rights House Network has a meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia.

On this date, in 1986, the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights entered into force. As of December 1998, all 53 members of the African Union had ratified the Charter.

REKOM Initiative

Moscow Helsinki Group will hold a conference “Formation of system of public control in Russia” as a part of the project “Prevention of tortures through legal support, education and protection”.
Experts, members of regional Supervising Committees on public control over places of forced imprisonment from 40 regions of Russia, representatives of federal government bodies will participate at the conference.
The participants will discuss actual problems of public control and rights protection of the citizens in the places of forced imprisonment.

Russia remains one of the deadliest countries in the world for journalists, with one of the worst records in solving crimes against the press. On Thursday 17 September Index on Censorship hosts the launch of a major report by Committee to Protect Journalists on impunity and the media in Russia.