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Georgian human rights defenders meet diplomats
On March 10th, the British, French and the US Ambassadors visited the Human Rights Center (HRIDC) to meet the NGO representatives and discuss the situation of human rights defenders in Georgia.
Беларусь робіць першыя крокі да адмены смяротнай кары
Меркаванне ЕС і Рады Еўропы пра скасаванне смяротнага пакарання ў Беларусі не будзе вырашальнае. Пра гэта заявіў 3 сакавіка 2010 года кіраўнік парламенцкай працоўнай групы па абмеркаванні праблематыкі смяротнай кары Мікалай Самасейка. У той жа час, змена рыторыкі афіцыйнай Беларусі ў дачыненні да вышэйшай меры пакарання – відавочная.
The blog of the Rafto laureate from Chechnya
Lidia Yusupova, a Chechnyan lawyer and human rights advocate, the 2005 Rafto Prize laureate, writes her own blog on Caucasian Knot, an internet mass medium covering issues in North and South Caucasus.
Press Conference
Presentation of the Annual report on monitoring of the war crime trials
Human rights in Belarus: defenders’ opinion
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.
HRH Sarajevo urges BH authorities to accept the UPR Recommendations
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.
Victim of sexual abuse during the August war in Georgia appeals to the ECHR
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.
Паказ фільма: Забойства напярэдадні вясны
Беларускі Дом правоў чалавека і Аб’яднаны цэнтр беларускіх ініцыятыў (JuBIC) ладзяць паказ новай стужкі і сустрэчу з рэжысёрам Вольгай Нікалайчык.
Tibet picket
10 March marks the 51st anniversary of the Tibetan people’s rebellion against the Chinese occupation.
Film screening: Murder at the Dawn of Spring
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.
Megjashi: You should not be silent about the violence
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.
Azerbaijan: On 5. anniversary of editor’s murder, Article 19 calls to bring perpetrators to justice
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.