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The UN Special Rapporteur on health, Anand Grover, warned Friday that the Anti-Homosexuality Bill being considered by the Ugandan Parliament is “not only a violation of the fundamental human rights of Ugandans, but will also undermine efforts to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.”

A group of more than 200 award-winning writers has today sent an open letter to British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, demanding that he seek information on the Libyan democracy activist Jaballa Matar (on the picture, right). Matar was abducted in 1990, and imprisoned without charge in Libya’s notorious Abu Salim prison.

There is a number of implemented projects regarding trafficking in Debar, FYR Macedonia, but greater coordination of all implemented activities is required if we want better results, evaluate the representatives of NGOs and relevant institutions in Debar.

New Amnesty’s campaign to be presented: since 11 September 2001, torture and detention without charge or trial has been adopted by countries like the United States, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka as anti-terrorist measures. There are victims of this practice and their dependents, whom we are going to support during our spring’2010 campaign.

On 21st January 2009, US President Obama signed executive orders directing the Central Intelligence Agency to shut what remains of its network of secret prisons and ordering the closing of the Guantánamo detention camp within a year, Amnesty International reminds.

While Article 39 of Kenya’s Revised Harmonised Draft Constitution makes giant steps in guaranteeing media freedom, Henry Maina finds it still lacking. Maina explores Article 39’s shortcomings in the areas of licensing, censorship and confidentiality and suggests some fundamental safeguards as solutions.

Human rights protections in the Western Balkans lag behind aspirations for European integration, Human Rights Watch said today. In its World Report 2010, Human Rights Watch documents human rights conditions and issues in Bosnia, Republic of Croatia, Serbia, and Kosovo.

-The Norwegian Helsinki Committee welcomes this important move, says Secretary General Bjørn Engesland. – Protocol 14 simplifies the procedures of European Court, adds Deputy Secretary General Gunnar M. Ekeløve-Slydal. – But it may not solve the problem of the precarious human rights situation in the Russian Federation and lack of trust by its citizens in domestic institutions and remedies.

The South Caucasus Network of Human Rights Defenders strongly condemns the actions of law enforcement organs of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic against peaceful civilians. On December 27, 2009, during a religious ceremony, the residents of Julfa district Bananiyar village in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic were subjected to physical pressure by the police.

The Azerbaijani government is using criminal laws and violent attacks to silence dissenting journalists, says Human Rights Watch in its report. Dozens of journalists have been prosecuted on criminal and civil defamation and other criminal charges. Police have carried out physical attacks on journalists, deliberately interfering with their efforts to investigate issues of public interest.

Children’s Alternative Report on the Rights of Children

More than two-thirds of African countries have laws criminalizing homosexual acts, and despite accounting for a significant percentage of new infections in many countries, men who have sex with men tend to be left out of the HIV response.