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The constitution of Georgia has been amended twice since the Rose Revolution. In 2004, the amendment maximally satisfied the President’s ambitions and gave him near indefinite powers regarding legislative issues. In the second amendment, in 2010, more power is concentrated under the Prime Minister.

Chinese government attempts to block the news by blacking out domestic and foreign media coverage of the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s announcement awarding jailed human rights activist Liu Xiaobo the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. His wife, Liu Xia, as reports Amnesty Inernational, has been cut off from the rest of the world.

Foodfirst Information and Action Network – FIAN – is co-hosting two seminars today, both as part of the annual Blue October campaign, bringing together some 20 Norwegian NGOs all concerned with the right to water and sanitation.

A complaint concerning the unfair trial and subsequent degrading treatment of Yevgeniy Zhovtis, one of Kazakhstan’s leading human rights defenders, was filed to the UN Human Rights Committee this week. Zhovtis received the 2010 Norwegian Helsinki Committee’s Sakharov Freedom Award.

On 10 October, the World Day against the Death Penalty, numerous events, happenings and pickets were staged across Republic of Belarus. In solidarity with Republic of Belarus similar events were organised in neighbouring countries. HR defenders from Republic of Belarus, the last country in Europe where the death penalty is still a grim reality, demonstrated that the struggle against this punishment could be multifaceted.

As we celebrate 60 years of the European Convention on Human Rights, a panel will look at the challenges facing international human rights protection in the 21st century seen from the perspective of the different Council of Europe human rights monitoring bodies.

on transitional justice

10 кастрычніка, у міжнародны дзень супраць смяротнага пакарання, па ўсёй Беларусі праходзілі пікеты і акцыі. Акцыі ў падтрымку прайшлі і ў суседніх дзяржавах. Правабаронцы Беларусі – апошняй краіны Еўропы, дзе смяротная кара – усё яшчэ рэальнасць, на справе паказалі, што змагацца з варварскімі мерамі пакарання можна рознымі шляхамі.

Article 19 welcomes the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) recent adoption of a resolution and set of recommendations on the functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine. Article 19 urges the Ukrainian government to address PACE’s concerns without delay, specifically in relation to the right to freedom of expression.

Awarding the Nobel peace Prize to the brave Chinese human rights defender Liu Xiaobo will strengthen focus on human rights in the People´s Republic of China. The Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) hopes that the Nobel Peace prize to Liu Xiaobo will contribute to improving the situation for him and other human rights defenders in the People´s Republic of China. Liu is well known as an unwavering and unorthodox fighter for fundamental human rights in the People´s Republic of China.

It is four years since the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead as she was entering the lift to her apartment in Moscow. Since then, more journalists and human rights defenders have been killed in the Russian Federation. Others have faced threats. No media outlet has lost more staff members than Novaya Gazeta – Politkovskaya’s employer. Neither the murderers nor any possible assassins’ paymasters have been convicted.

Г-ну Матвею ГершевичуПредседателю Народного Хурала Республики Бурятияфакс: +7 (3012) 21-49-61 E-mail: chairman@icm.buryatia.ru Мы, участники международной научно-практической конференции “Права человека: между правом и моралью”, и организации-партнеры проекта «Электронное обучение адвокатов правам человека», выражаем свою обеспокоенность уголовным преследованием юриста и журналиста Надежды Низовкиной и адвоката Татьяны Стецура. По информации, полученной нами во время конференции, Надежда Низовкина и […]