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Taboo Be Do! Hits and misses from the politically incorrect songbook
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.
Three Streets in the Country
Three Streets in the Country (60 mins) is a subjective history of the London suburbs written by Michael Frayn and directed by Dennis Marks.
ICC includes genocide among the charges against Sudan’s presiden al-Bashir
The International Criminal Court (ICC) appeals chamber decided today to reject the standard used to exclude genocide charges in the ICC’s arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir of Republic of the Sudan.
The Observatory: Urgent appeal
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The Supreme Court reopened the vetting proceedings for the first time after the ECHR judgement
Upon the judgement of 18 November 2009, ref. no. II KO 79/09, the Supreme Court reopened the vetting process after the statement of the European Court of Human Rights. Due to this fact, it should be considered a test-case.
Strasbourg orders Turkey to compensate journalists
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Republic of Turkey to pay a total of over 40,000 Euros to 20 Turkish journalists as compensation for having violated their rights. Welcoming the judgment, IPI Board Member Ferai Tinc, Chairperson of the IPI Turkish National Committee, said they would like the canceling of prison sentences in cases concerning the media.
Human Rights Human Wrongs: opening!
This Wednesday, Human Rights Human Wrongs film festival’2010 begins in Oslo. Co-organized by the Human Rights House Oslo, the festival is strongly based around important HR issues, through a variety of styles of films and inclusive debate with inspiring guests. First on the schedule is the Danish movie “Burma VJ: Reporting from a closed country” (screenshot on the right).
Ethiopia jails editor whose paper challenged Meles Zenawi
An Ethiopian judge sentenced a journalist to prison on Friday in connection with a January 2008 column that criticized Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s statements about religious affairs in Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, according to local journalists.
Human rights challenges in Kazakhstan
The Norwegian Helsinki Committee examines Kazakhstan’s commitments considering the protection of tolerance, justice, freedom of speech and assembly during its chairmanship in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The Committee also analyses what Norway can do to make Republic of Kazakhstan conscious about their responsibility and to improve situation in these areas.
IFJ marks ‘End of Deadly Decade’ with report on journalists and media staff killed in 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued its report on journalists and media workers who died in the exercise of journalism in 2009. The report provides detailed information of media killings, including 32 victims of a single massacre in Manguindanao, the Philippines, last November.
Peru: Newspaper editor jailed for defamation
English PEN protests the one-year prison sentence handed down to Peruvian “Nor Oriente” editor Alejandro Carrascal Carrasco on 12 January 2010 for alleged “aggravated defamation” of a local official. There were a number of apparent irregularities in the trial and it is widely believed that Carrascal’s conviction is in retaliation for his criticism of the authorities.