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On 4 March in Vilnius HRH Belarusian human rights defenders presented their vision of the human rights situation in contemporary Republic of Belarus. Fitted into ten written pages it will be included into Universal Periodic Review, which Republic of Belarus as a UN member has to go through in May this year. Representatives of embassies, journalists and everyone interested had a chance to hear out Belarusians.

Human Rights House of Sarajevo – HRH Sarajevo, in its letter addressed to the Minister of the Human Rights and Refugees in B&H, Safet Halilovic and to the President of the Council of Ministers of B&H, Nikola Spiric, in behalf of the Informal NGO Coalition for the UPR, expressed the satisfaction over the results and the interactive dialogue during the UPR session of B&H held in late February 2010.

On the International Women’s Day the Human Rights Priority and the Caucasian Women’s Network filed a strategic litigation to the ECHR on the case of sexual abuse against a Georgian woman during the August war. The case versus Georgia and Russian Federation.

Беларускі Дом правоў чалавека і Аб’яднаны цэнтр беларускіх ініцыятыў (JuBIC) ладзяць паказ новай стужкі і сустрэчу з рэжысёрам Вольгай Нікалайчык.

10 March marks the 51st anniversary of the Tibetan people’s rebellion against the Chinese occupation.

Belarusian Human Rights House and JuBIC are hosting a screening of a new documentary by Volha Nikalaichyk, followed by a discussion with the film director. “Murder at the Dawn of Spring” (2010) recalls a suicide committed by human rights defender Yana Paliakova on 7 March 2009 in Salihorsk, Republic of Belarus.

On December 14, 2010, a one day international conference entitled ‘War on Terror and Human Rights – In Search for Truth and Responsibility’ was held at the Warsaw University Law Faculty premises. The conference was organized by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR) in Warsaw under the auspices of the Dean of the Law Faculty of Warsaw University.

The handing over of list of suspected perpetrators of Kenya’s post-election violence of 2008 to the International Criminal Court, right, judges has caused fear, panic and anxiety across the country especially in areas that were hardest hit by the chaos.

4 сакавіка у віленскім Доме правоў чалавека беларускія праваабаронцы прэзентавалі сваё бачанне сітуацыі з правамі чалавека сучаснай Беларусі. Аформленае на дзесяці старонках тэксту, яно будзе ўлічвацца падчас працэдуры Універсальнага перыядычнага агляду (УПА), якую Беларусь, як сябра ААН, будзе праходзіць у траўні цякучага года. У залі прысутнічалі прадстаўнікі амбасадаў, журналісты і ўсе цікаўныя.

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H – HCHR, recently published a map of its activities conducted in year 2009. The map is not only a graphic insight into the HCHR project activities, but also an insight to BH areas in which those projects were implemented.

The First Children’s Embassy in the World Megjashi is conducting a campaign under the slogan “You should not be silent about the violence”. The main goal is to inform the public about the violence issues that the children in FYR Macedonia are facing.

2 March 2010 marks the fifth anniversary of the unsolved murder of Monitor editor-in-chief Elmar Huseynov, who was fatally gunned down in his apartment building in a well-organised attack. ARTICLE 19 calls on the Azerbaijani government to redouble its efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice, and to take immediate action to improve freedom of expression in the Republic of Azerbaijan.