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1 лютага Аляксандр Лукашэнка падпісаў указ, які ўводзіць цэнзуру ў Інтэрнэце. Закон пачне дзейнічаць з 1 ліпеня. Міжнародная праваабарончая арганізацыя “Рэпарцёры без межаў” заявіла, што пасля прыняцця такога закону, беларускія ўлады трапляюць у спіс так званых “ворагаў Інтэрнэту”, становяцца ў адзін шэраг з Кітаем, Паўночнай Карэяй, Бірмай.

Voluntary organisations, institutions and individuals worldwide are welcome to nominate candidates for the 2010 Rafto Prize for Human Rights. The Rafto Prize, awarded in memory of Norwegian professor Thorolf Rafto, is awarded to an individual or organisation that embodies and upholds the principles of the Human Rights Charter through activism or engagement.

The prize will be delivered to the Laureate selected by the Rafto Prize Committee and announced on 23 September 2010 in Bergen. A recipient should be an active participant in the struggle for the ideals and principles underlying the Human Rights Charter, or be an embodying symbol of these. A recipient may be a person or an organisation, and two or more recipients may share the prize.

Recipients are to be selected by the Rafto Prize Committee. The 2010 Rafto Prize Committee is chaired by Siri Gloppen, Professor at the University of Bergen, Institute of Comparative Politics and Christian Michelsen Research Institute (CMI).

Voluntary organisations, institutions and individuals worldwide are welcome to nominate candidates for the 2010 Rafto Prize for Human Rights. The Rafto Prize, awarded in memory of Norwegian professor Thorolf Rafto, is awarded to an individual or organisation that embodies and upholds the principles of the Human Rights Charter through activism or engagement.

Around 600 police officers and security personnel of B&H private security companies have started conducting the police action “Svjetlost” (“Light”). The goal of the action is to identify persons who pose a threat to the state security. So far six persons have been arrested, and recently group of journalists attacked.

“Do not touch Roma, they are infected” is a label that has recently appeared on the counter of a bus station in Zagreb. Some of the shocked travelers took photos of it and forwarded them to the media in Zagreb in order to draw attention to the racist breakdown in the Croatian capital.

The current president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H – HCHR, Srdjan Dizdarevic, right, has announced his imminent departure from the NGO sector, and his move to active political life in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Reporters Without Borders regrets that President Alexander Lukashenko (Aliaksandr Lukashenka) signed a decree on 1 February 2010 establishing extensive control over Internet access and online content. “The Belarusian authorities are trying to tighten their control over the Internet as they already did with the traditional media,” Reporters Without Borders stated.

The cult of celebrity is widely castigated in the modern media, but do extraordinary people have a role to play in society? Can eccentrics and others in the public eye tell us something about the limits of personality? English PEN seeks to uncover some of the uses of fame.

Michael Arditti, Amanda Craig, Morris Farhi – here are three writers not afraid to tackle serious issues: racism and homophobia, the right to die, the meaning of art, the absurdity of cycles of vengeance, faith and religion – and much more. Their novels are gripping, provocative and thought provoking. They will discuss the role of literature and its impact on our lives. Chaired by Nina Caplan.

Author Terence Blacker takes an eye-opening, foot-tapping journey through 100 years of politically incorrect music as part of the guitar duo Something Happened. Delving into the back catalogues of jazz, country, folk, bluegrass and pop, Blacker, his musical partner Derek Hewitson and contemporary diva Victoria Hart offer a shamelessly cheerful celebration of the outrageous, the ill-considered and the downright inappropriate.