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HCHR’s report on environmental human rights in B&H
The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H has recently published a report on situation of environmental human rights in B&H.
Situation in Eastern Burma ‘comparable to Darfur’
A new report shows that conditions in Eastern Burma are now comparable to those of the war-torn Darfur region in Western Republic of the Sudan. As a result of the systematic violations of human rights by the Burmese Military Junta, at least 75.000 people became refugees and more than half a million were internally displaced in the last year.
Kandic, Terselic and Tokaca, Schwarzkopf Europe Prize Winners
Vesna Terselic, the Leader of Documenta from Zagreb, Mirsad Tokaca, the Director of the Research and Documentation Centre from Sarajevo, and Natasa Kandic, the Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) from Belgrade were awarded the annual Schwarzkopf Europe Prize this year.
Concerns with pressure on Georgian media
Norwegian PEN, the Human Rights House Foundation and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee are alarmed by the information that representatives of Special Operative Department (SOD) of Adjara region within the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia have attempted to exert pressure and blackmail Tedo Jorbenadze, head of the investigative reporting team of the “Batumelebi” Newspaper. We call upon the Georgian authorities to promptly investigate both this and previous incidents of pressure on “Batumelebi” and to take all appropriate measures to ensure a safe and enabling environment for all journalists in Georgia.
Pressure on Georgian ‘Batumelebi’ newspaper
The members of the South Caucasus Network of Human Rights Defenders and the Human Rights House Tbilisi are alarmed by the information that representatives of Adjara Autonomous Republic Division of Special Operative Department (SOD) within the Ministry of Interior of Georgia have attempted to exert pressure and blackmail Tedo Jorbenadze, the head of the investigative reporting team of the “Batumelebi” Newspaper. We call upon the Georgian authorities to promptly investigate this and previous incidents of pressure on “Batumelebi” and take all appropriate measures to ensure safe and enabling environment for all journalists in Georgia.
Is climate scepticism the new Holocaust denial?
The Copenhagen Summit will debate one of the most important public issues of the past thirty years. Many scientists and advocates predict climate change will kill potentially hundreds of millions of people worldwide over the coming decades. This begs the question: is there a special responsibility for the media to exercise restraint in reporting climate change? Or are we witnessing the rise of an unchallengeable orthodoxy?
Statement of the Human Rights House Tbilisi and the South Caucasus Network of Human Rights Defenders
Members of the South Caucasus Network of Human Rights Defenders and the Human Rights House Tbilisi are alarmed by the information that representatives of Adjara Autonomous Republic Division of Special Operative Department (SOD) within the Ministry of Interior of Georgia have attempted to exert pressure and blackmail Tedo Jorbenadze, the head of the investigative reporting team of the “Batumelebi” Newspaper. We call upon the Georgian authorities to promptly investigate this and previous incidents of pressure on “Batumelebi” and take all appropriate measures to ensure safe and enabling environment for all journalists in Georgia.