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Coalition of three Polish NGOs: Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Helsińska Fundacja Praw Człowieka), Inpris (Inpris Instytut Prawa i Społeczeństwa) and Polish Section of The International Commission of Jurists (Polska Sekcja Międzynarodowej Komisji Prawników) monitors the elections of judges of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal.

On the 14 of December in the building of Government of Moscow region new mandates of the Public Supervising Committees will be handing out.

14 декабря в здании Правительства Московской области состоится вручение мандатов Общественной наблюдательной комиссии по Московской области нового созыва.

Romania needs a moral awakening, the 1989 Rafto laureate Doina Cornea tells Norwegian activists. Doina Cornea (81) was awarded the Rafto Prize in 1989 for her work as a dissident during the communist regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu. Today she sadly speaks about youth’s moral decay, corruption and dirty politics in her country.

The government of Republic of Kazakhstan has failed to fulfil their commitment to improve the situation for journalists and media before their chairmanship of the OSCE ends. Article 19 and Adil Soz is concerned that they have failed to promote democracy or enhance freedom of expression during their chairmanship.

As the election campaign is gathering pace, the authorities are doing everything to create an appearance of freedom and equality for all candidates. Ten contenders for the main office were all registered without problems. However, looking closely, it becomes clear that the liberalization is strictly controlled by the authorities, and the equal opportunity is no more than an elaborate farce.

With Georgia’s ‘State Strategy on Occupied Territories: Engagement through Cooperation,’ the government has adopted new modalities for conducting activities in the occupied territories. Both Georgian civil society and international organizations have received the strategy critically, saying that the new restrictions the Georgian government has placed on their work in Abkhazia and South Ossetia will destroy the small amount of trust that has been built up between the conflicting sides.

Representatives from four international non-governmental organisations, including Human Rights House Foundation, undertake a joint advocacy mission on 30 November – 2 December to the Council of Europe during the Ministers’ Deputies meeting to raise their serious concerns regarding the Azerbaijani government’s non-compliance with the European Court’s ruling in Fatullayev’s case.

Norway must take the opportunity to address significant contradictions in the Republic of Kazakhstan chairmanship at the Summit, says Bjørn Engesland, Secretary General of Norwegian Helsinki Committee. We should not allow a well-polished façade to blur the fact that Republic of Kazakhstan has been using this chairmanship to get international acceptance of their poor human rights record.

Перадвыбарная кампанія набірае ход. Улады краіны робяць усё, каб стварыць імідж свабоды і роўнасці магчымасцяў кандыдатаў. Гэтым разам прэтэндэнтаў на галоўную пасаду – аж 10, усе яны былі без праблем зарэгістраваныя. Але калі прыгледзецца, становіцца зразумела, што свабода і лібералізацыя – строга падкантрольныя ўладам, а роўныя магчымасці – не больш за фарс.

Human Rights House Tbilisi is organizing the Human Rights Week from December 3 to 10 dedicated to the International Day for Human Rioghts.

December 3, at 13:00 – Working meeting with the women lawyers (Article 42 of the constitution);

December 6 at 12:00 – Documentary film on ICC – “The Reckoning” (moderator: Ana Natsvlishvili, the lawyer, HRIDC);

December 7 at 12:00 – Documentary film on photo-reporters “Shooting Under Fire” (moderator: Giorgi Kupatadze, the IWPR);

December 9 at 12:00 – Documentary film on violence against women – “The Return” (moderator: Natalia Zazashvili, the psychologist, Union Sapari) ;

December 10 at 13:00 – Documentary film on juvenile offenders – “Books not Bars” (moderator: Maia Tsiramua, the psychologist, GCRT);

Please register for each event:
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HRHF, represented by Vugar Goyaev, manager of HRH Baku, travels to Strasbourg today as part of an NGO delegation to lobby for Azeri journalist Eynulla Fatullayev’s release. Reporters Without Borders and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers are also part of the joint advocacy effort.