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Polish Sejm and Senate presents opinion on the crucifix in public domain
On November 3, 2009 the European Court of Human Rights passes a judgment in the case Lautsi v. Italy (Application no. 30814/06). It ruled unanimously that crucifixes displayed on the walls of Italian public school’s classes are contrary to parents’ right to educate their children in line with their convictions and to children’s right to freedom of religion.
Human Rights Advocates Program at Columbia University
The application for the 2011 session of the annual Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) at Columbia University is now available.
CIA Secret Detention Places in Poland – Current Legal Developments
Republic of Poland was one of the Central European countries named in reports by Human Rights Watch and articles in The Washington Post in November 2005 as hosting USA Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) secret detention places. A few years have since passed and we are now much closer to the truth of Poland’s shameful involvement in the CIA rendition program.
In Belarus, even one independent newspaper for a region is one too many
A month after the newspaper Viciebskij Kurjer was banned from circulation, the Vicebsk city court has fined Aleh Barshcheuski, its editor-in-chief for keeping on distributing it. Thus, Belarusian authorities have made yet another violation of freedom of expression and the media.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s 65th birthday demonstration
On Friday 18 June, members and friends of English PEN are invited to attend a demonstration to celebrate the 65th birthday of our Honorary Member Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Writers in Exile
To mark Refugee Week, please join us for an evening in the company of two prominent writers in exile: Atiq Rahimi and Eli Amir. Both authors will be reading from their latest books and taking audience questions.
Discrimination against Roma children in MK continues
Back in 1993 there were only 3 Roma students in Macedonian universities, and today, thanks to the quota aimed to encourage higher education of minority communities and the several private universities, this number is around 150. However, many of them do not graduate due to their low standard of living in FYR Macedonia.
ARTICLE 19 Artist Alert – May 2010
Article 19 continues to highlight cases of artists around the world whose right to freedom of expression has been curtailed and abused, and seeks to more effectively promote and defend freedom to create. Here are most important abuses from May 2010.
Human rights library opened at HRH Baku
A library on human rights opened today in the Azerbaijani Human Rights House. The library contains 3,000 books in different languages on human rights, democracy, gender equality and conflict.
New internship exchange programme for East Africa
HRHF participates in a three-day planning session for a five-year grant cycle for an internship exchange programme between leading human rights organisations in East Africa. So far, organisations in Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda are included, in addition to HRHF as the so-called north component of the programme. The Norwegian Peace Corps (FK) is sponsoring the programme and HURINET Uganda is FKs key partner, now for the second cycle running.