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A resolution on the security of human rights defenders is about to be discussed during the 13th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which started 1 March. First consultations began while the first open meeting is going to be held today. Human Rights House Foundation is lobbying states to defend human rights defenders.

International Women’s Day 2010

Go and march for 8th of March

The main individuals in charge of orchestrating the massive violence that followed in the immediate wake of the announcement of Mwai Kibaki’s alleged victory in the parliamentary and presidential elections in the Republic of Kenya late September 2007 were named in a recent newscast on Kenyan tv. Watch the news item from Youtube below.

Voice of America (VOA) reported today that its transmissions to Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia are being electronic jammed. The Ethiopian government denied responsibility. VOA cited “international shortwave radio monitors” and complaints from listeners in Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia since February 22 about static the U.S. government-funded station’s daily, hour-long shortwave broadcast from Washington in Amharic—the country’s main official language.

New Life, a protestant congregation, was fined 272 millions BYR (almost 100,000 USD) by a court. Charges of alleged nature pollution were brought forward by the Minsk municipality environmental protection department. Church members were certain that a huge fine was yet another attempt to pressure the protestant community. The church had been in a stand off with the authorities for more than 7 years.

An Ethiopian opposition politician and parliamentary aspirant was stabbed to death yesterday and a second one seriously wounded when attackers raided their respective homes in Makalle and Axum in Tigray, 783 km north of Addis Ababa, party officials said.

Following a request for additional information from the International Criminal Court (ICC) earlier this month, its Prosecutor today named the 20 people he says are most responsible for the deadly post-election ethnic violence which swept Republic of Kenya in December 2007 and January 2008. Last November, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, right, sought authorization from the Court’s pre-trial chamber to open an investigation into the ethnic violence that erupted following the disputed polls in which President Mwai Kibaki of the Party of National Unity (PNU) was declared the winner.

Пратэстанцкая царква “Новае жыццё” па пазове камітэта аховы прыроды Мінгарвыканкама 26 лютага была аштрафаваная на 263 мільёна рублёў (гэта амаль 100.000 даляраў). Падстава для вынясення судовага рашэння – нібыта нанесеная царквой шкода навакольнаму асяроддзю. Вернікі не сумняюцца, што прысуд у выглядзе такой вялікай сумы – чарговая спроба ціску на пратэстанцкую абшчыну, супрацьстаянне з уладамі якой працягваецца ні многа ні мала – больш за 7 год.

A member of Bosnia’s war-time presidency, Ejup Ganic, right, was arrested in London on Monday at the request of Serbian authorities. The arrest followed a request submitted by Serbia late on Sunday, alleging Ganic’s responsibility for war crimes related to an attack by Bosnian troops against a column of Yugoslav People’s Army, JNA, troops in Sarajevo at the start of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.

Documenta calls on all citizens who have any information about the victims of war in the Republic of Croatia (killed, disappeared, tortured, imprisoned… ), perpetrators, witnesses and / or text, photo or video documentation of war crimes committed during the war to contact and join Documenta in creating a true and based on the facts views of the war happenings in the period from 1991 – 1995, and the complete list of victims of war.

“Electronic Human Rights Education for Lawyers” program has been started by a seminar in the Belarusian Human Rights House (HRH) in exile in Vilnius on 19-21 February. The kick-off event aimed at letting 26 Belarusian participants know each other and providing basic skills of learning human rights via distance program they are about to go through during one year to come.