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Members of the South Caucasus Network of Human Rights Defenders applaud the Concluding Observations on Republic of Azerbaijan issued by the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) on 19 November 2009. We observe that many of the main concerns raised by Azerbaijani members of the South Caucasus Network of Human Rights Defenders and the Human Rights House Foundation during the review of Republic of Azerbaijan in November 2009 have been reflected in CAT’s concluding observations.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today welcomed the French Republic’s liberty, equality, fraternity human rights prize awarded to its affiliate in the Republic of Somalia, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), by the Commission nationale consultative des droits de l’homme in France.

Belarusian State University political science program alumni consider the expulsion of a Young Front press-secretary Tatsiana Shaputska (on picture right) “a dirty stain on the image of Law Faculty of BSU. The student was thrown out after participation in the Eastern Partnership forum outside Belarus” without asking a required permission to leave the country from the deans.

Following the election of Republic of Kazakhstan to chair the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Norway set up an embassy in Kazakh capital of Astana. -It is important that Norway takes on Kazakhstan’s human rights abuses,” said the leader of the Oslo Center and former foreign minister Kjell Magne Bondevik.

Based on two years of research across 176 countries, this online resource maps civil defamation across the world. In this unique mapping exercise, ARTICLE 19 charts cases and the damages awarded and demonstrates how civil cases can be just as limiting to free expression as criminal defamation cases.

Members of the Norwegian Human Rights House urge the Iranian authorities to respect the dignity and work of the human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize winner 2003, Shirin Ebadi. We ask the authorities to return the confiscated award and put an end to all kind of repression against the highly respected human rights defender and her relatives.

HRHF has received a link to a an in-depth news item that was shown recently on Al-Jazeera, and has since been made available on YouTube. The reportage was made clandestinely by journalists entering the country as tourists, and shooting the entire film on the most primitive equipment, including their own cell phones. Click on the link below and watch the film.

One year after receiving the Rafto Prize, pastor Bulambo Lembelembe Josué, right, is still fighting to establish a dialogue between the rebel soldiers, government and international forces, and civilians in the Congolese Kivu region.

Azeri human rights defenders gathered for an advance celebration of the International Human Rights Day at the Human Rights House Republic of Azerbaijan today. Representatives of OSCE, Council of Europe, and the embassies of Norway and UK attended the event to show their solidarity and support and congratulate the defenders.

The United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of State of Eritrea took place on Monday 30 November 2009. As you know, a coalition of Eritrean Diaspora communities submitted a joint report for this occasion. The coalition consisted of Eritrean Australian Mercy Association Inc., Eritrean Community in Australia Inc., Eritrean Global Solidarity, Network of Eritrean Civil Societies – Europe, and Suwera Center for Human Rights. The Awate Foundation coordinated the coalition’s work and submitted the report on its behalf. The Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) provided technical and editorial assistance and facilitated the advocacy carried out by representatives of the coalition who were present at the Human Rights Council in Geneva during the review.

Annual report of SOS telephone

Report on Children’s Rights in Macedonia