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Enrique Peña Nieto, the young face of Mexico’s oldest political party, was chosen by Mexican people to lead the country out of arguably the most turbulent period in its history since the Mexican Revolution. Peña Nieto’s PRI, which governed Mexico for 71 years until losing in 2000, has staged a comeback since the candidate was chosen.

4 ліпеня адбыўся суд над актывістам грамадзянскай кампаніі «Еўрапейская Беларусь» Андрэем Моўчанам (на фота), які 19 траўня быў жорстка збіты міліцыянтамі за тое, што выйшаў на вуліцу з бел-чырвона-белым сцягам.

On the occasion of the World Refugee Day, Amnesty International, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, the Polish Humanitarian Action and the Association for Legal Intervention warn about a difficult situation of migrant children in Poland. In 2011, more than 500 foreign children, including refugee children, and their guardians were detained and placed in guarded centres for foreigners.

Article 19 was an active campaigner for making the right to free expression and information central to the Rio+20 earth summit declaration. However, the organisation criticises the outcome document “The Future We Want” as being unambitious and lacking in tangible commitments.

Graduates of the project “Bring International Standards Home. De facto implementation of international obligations of the Republic of Belarus in the field of civil rights and freedoms” developed and published materials on advocacy issues as well as problems with protecting the rights of those criminally and administratively prosecuted in Belarus.

The HFHR has appealed to Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament and to the European External Action Service on the conditions of detention and treatment of Ales Belyatsky, a Belarusian human rights defender, who is currently serving his time in a penal colony. Mr Belyatsky was sentenced to four and half years in a high-security colony and property forfeiture for alleged tax evasion.

The HFHR requested General Krzysztof Bondaryk, head of the Internal Security Agency, to take decisive actions in the case of repetitive anti-Semitic assaults in Lublin. In its intervention, the HFHR recalled the case of Tomasz Pietrasiewicz, leader of The Grodzka Gate –Theatre NN in Lublin.

The United Nations Human Rights Council began its debate on the human rights situation in Belarus on Wednesday 27 June 2012. Follow live on Wednesday and Thursday.

It has been five years since the EU adopted its Strategy for a New Partnership with Central Asia. As EU foreign ministers prepare to take stock of progress so far, a number of civil society organizations, including Norwegian Helsinki Committee, would like to suggest ways to improve the effectiveness and impact of EU action to promote human rights in Central Asia.

Выпускнікі праекта “Імплементацыя дэ-факта міжнародных абавязацельстваў Рэспублікі Беларусь у галіне грамадзянскіх правоў і свабод” распрацавалі і апублікавалі матэрыялы пра праблемы адвакатуры і праблемы ў галіне абароны правоў тых, хто падвяргаецца крымінальнаму і адміністратыўнаму пераследу ў Беларусі.

NGOs call for the government of Azerbaijan to take measures to ensure the right to freedom of expression

The rapidly deteriorating human rights situation clearly demonstrate Azerbaijan’s unwillingness to fully implement its human rights commitments.