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20 декабря региональная общественная организация «Право ребенка» совместно с партнерами примет участие в трех-дневной конференции в рамках проекта «Врачи детям».

Региональная общественная организация «Право ребенка» проводит круглый стол в рамках конференции «Позитивное детство». В рамках конференции состоится также заседание региональных организаций с целью обсуждения вопросов по созданию коалиции «Позитивное детство».

Experts fro Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia will visit psycho-neurological hospital of Moscow within the joint project of Human Rights House Foundation Russian Research Center for Human Rights ‘Prevention of tortures and violent treatment in closed establishments of Russia’. The aim of the visit is to collecting information about physical conditions of the patients, cases of violent and rude treatment of the patients by the staff of the hospitals, working out measure son prevention of treatment of the kind.

In cooperation with the Smolensk Department on education and science regional public organization ‘Right of the Child’ will hold a round table ‘Children without violence’. The coordinator of the project Svetlana Pronina will make a report on the most urgent problems of children’s rights protection. The event was visited by human rights activists, teachers, representatives of the state bodies, controlling childish institutions and the media.

In cooperation with the regional partners regional public organization ‘Right of the Child’ will participate in a tree-days’ conference in St. Petersburg within the project ‘Doctors for Children’ with the aim to organize a network of non-government organizations and state institutions, dealing with issues of children’s rights protection.

Round table of the regional public organization ‘Right of the Child’ within the conference ‘Positive childhood’. The event will be held within the joint project of Human Rights House Foundation Russian Research center for Human Rights ‘Prevention of tortures and violent treatment in closed establishments of Russia’. Regional partner of the organization will also discuss issues regarding coalition with the same name.

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A student of the European Humanities University in exile Mikalai Dziadok has been behind bars for more than two months now. Dziadok was detained in the wake of the so-called “case of anarchists” in early September 2010. His fellow students have appealed to the international community with a request to protest against this detention, called ‘arbitrary and illegal’ by human rights defenders of Republic of Belarus.

Both Burma and Republic of Azerbaijan let their parliamentary elections, held on the same day – 7 November 2010 – be followed by the release of high-profile political prisoners. While the world condemned the unfair elections, the releases of Aung San Suu Kyi and two Azeri bloggers were widely applauded. Both regimes seem to want to turn international attention away from difficult topics.

Trade Union of Public Prosecutors and Prosecutor’s Office Employees in the Republic of Poland demands the salaries of similar amount to those of the “old” European Union countries. Due to this occurrence, Civil Development Forum Foundation together with Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, present a report by Karolina Kremens and Artur Pietryka entitled “Public prosecutor’s professional responsibility”.

The human rights situation in Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is in decline. Despite the State party’s assurances that a wide range of criminal code provisions and other laws ensure that the country’s international and domestic obligations under the Convention Against Torture are met, in practice these legal provisions have no effect.

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