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Croatia must not be left without public media service!

The Polisario Front’s Negotiator at the United Nations and Coordinator with The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), M’hamed Kheddad, said on 6 April 2010 in Brussels that the Sahrawi government had called the United Nations to supervise Human rights in the liberated territories and refugee camps.

Eynulla Fatullayev goes on trial on “trumped up” drugs charges while the European Court examines previous charges. A new trial into the case of imprisoned journalist Eynulla Fatullayev, an investigative journalist and staunch critic of Azerbaijani government was opened on 9 April 2010 in the Garadag District Court.

Partners Relief & Development (Partners) and Free Burma Rangers (FBR) announce a first comprehensive report “Displaced Childhoods” documenting the experiences of internally displaced children against the backdrop of Burma’s obligations under domestic and international law. Report is based on data collected in Burma and on its borderlands for the last 14 years by Partners and FBR.

С 15 по 18 апреля 2010 года в Центральном выставочном зале «Манеж» состоится выставка-форум «Армия и общество». Организаторами выставки выступают Министерство обороны РФ и Фонд «Наука-XXI» при поддержке Правительства Москвы.
По замыслу организаторов, она станет заметным культурно-¬патриотическим проектом в рамках мероприятий Российского организационного комитета «Победа» по празднованию этой юбилейной даты.

Целью выставки является ознакомление широкой общественности с работой органов государственной власти, в том числе Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации по вопросам законотворческой деятельности и практических мер в области обороны и безопасности, с содержанием проводимых в Вооруженных Силах Российской Федерации преобразований, социально значимыми программами и мероприятиями, направленными на повышение авторитета Вооруженных Сил Российской Федерации и других силовых структур в обществе.

Одна из приоритетных задач выставки – показ роли общественных организаций в укреплении связи между армией и обществом, объединение их усилий в решении задач патриотического воспитания молодёжи, обеспечения социальной защиты военнослужащих и членов их семей и, в целом, повышения авторитета Вооруженных Сил.
Отличительной особенностью выставки станет её широкая социальная направленность, возможность привлечения общественных структур к совместному обсуждению широкого комплекса социальных проблем военнослужащих и членов их семей с высшими органами государственной власти.

On 15-18 April, 2010 Union of Soldiers’ Mothers Committee will participate in an exhibition Army and Society, organized by the Ministry of Defense and Science-XXI Foundation with the support of Moscow Government.

The main objective of the exhibition is introduction of state authorities’ activity in the sphere of defense and security, military reform, social programs to the public.

The Union of Soldiers’ Mothers committee will take part in a series of round tables devoted to military reform and ways of cooperation of non-government organizations and state bodies on issues regarding strengthening of army-society relations, patriotic upbringing of youth, rights protection of conscripts, soldiers and their families.

Amnesty International Norway calls on those exercising authority in Kyrgyz Republic to respect and protect human rights while restoring public order after three days of violent unrest reportedly left scores dead and hundreds injured.

Art, in any form, constitutes a key medium through which information and ideas are imparted and received. Artist Alert, launched by ARTICLE 19, highlights 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.

Activists of Association Right to the City and Green Action submitted to USKOK (Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organized Crime), criminal charges against Mayor of Zagreb, Milan Bandic, charging him for abuse of office and authority, and for concluding the contract with Hoto group for the project in Varsavska street, which is harmful for the city of Zagreb. A submission was accompanied by a protest of almost 200 activists and citizens in front of USKOK building in Gajeva street, Zagreb.

Let’s build a common civil society

China has arrested two Tibetan students of Northwest National Minorities’ University in Lanzhou on 6 April 2010. Tashi Rabten (pen name – Te’urang) and Druklo (pen name –Shokjang) were arrested after around 16 officials from the local Public Security Bureau arrived in the university hostel and ransacked students’ rooms.

Piotr brought a complaint against Republic of Poland at the ECHR for being evicted from the municipal flat, which his deceased partner had been renting. Delivered on March 2nd, 2010, the judgment of the Strasbourg Court affirmed that the State is under obligation to acknowledge various forms of family life.