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Прызначэнне Алега Праляскоўскага міністрам інфармацыі светлых перспектыў свабоды слова не абяцае. Каментуе старшыня Асацыяцыі журналістаў Беларусі Жанна Літвіна і аналітык Аляксандр Класкоўскі.

Kyaw Zaw Lwin (a.k.a. Nyi Nyi Aung), right, a political prisoner in Burma’s notorious Insein Prison, is currently on hunger strike. 40-year-old Lwan, who was born in Burma but is a naturalized US citizen, is protesting his loss even of ordinary prisoner’s rights.

Macedonian Women’s Right Center – MWRC – took part in the conference organized by UNIFEM’s Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe in the end of November in Sarajevo. The aim of the conference was to improve the effectiveness and accountability when assisting in protection of victims of domestic violence in Central and Eastern Europe.

An Index on Censorship event on the politicisation of climate science reflected a growing debate, highlighted by “climategate”. Padraig Reidy, right, news editor of Index on Censorship, reports on an event at the Free Word Centre hosted by Index on Censorship – “Is climate change scepticism the new Holocaust denial?”

As part of the build- to the forthcoming UPR hearing on Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) in February 2010, the Human Rights House of Sarajevo has raised some of the most pressing human rights issues in the country with Alex Lenaerts, Head of Belgian Embassy’s Diplomatic Office in Sarajevo.

Дакументальны нарыс, створаны JuBIC’ам сумесна з журналістамі тэлеканала “Белсат”, адлюстроўвае праблему “візавай заслоны”, што аддзяляе Беларусь і беларусаў ад аб’яднанай вольнай Еўропы.

A documentary created by JuBIC in partnership with Belsat TV journalists reveals the problem of Schengen ‘visa curtain’ increasingly isolating Belarusians from the free Europe.

Index on Censorship has opened nominations for its 10th freedom of expression awards. You can make nominations across three categories—Journalism, New Media and Law and Campaigning, to honour individuals who are leading the fight against censorship in all corners of the world.

Both Britain and Canada’s prime ministers have told Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni that a proposed law that would result in homosexuals being imprisoned for life or even executed needs to be withdrawn. The proposed legislation has created a furore in Western countries with protesters saying it contravenes international human rights legislation.