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The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemns in the strongest possible terms the targeted shooting of two Somali journalists working for international news media organizations in Galkayo and Mogadishu.

Ці дастаткова ўвагі надаецца тэматыцы правоў чалавека ў беларускіх СМІ? Ці праваабаронцы ўмеюць зацікаўліваць журналістаў у пладах сваёй працы? Пра гэтыя і іншыя тэмы вялося на семінары-дыялогу “Прафесійная журналістыка і правы чалавека”, што прайшоў у Доме правоў чалавека ў Вільні 13-15 лістапада.

New death threats against journalist Bakir Hadziomerovic (on right), one of the country’s leading investigative journalists, have provoked media organizations in B&H and international media associations to react severely against what seems to be a decline in the freedom of expression and the media in the country.

U.S. President Barack Obama urged Burma to release Aung San Suu Kyi in a meeting where Burma’s Prime Minister Thein Sein attended. Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi, who has spent more than 14 years under house arrest since 1989, has recently become a hero of a book for children, written by former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik.

The Human Rights House Foundation, Georgian Human Rights Centre and the Human Rights House in the Republic of Croatia are concerned about the continuous oppression of the freedom of expression in the Croatian media, especially its public services. This is a second Croatian human rights activists’ alert in the year 2009; unfortunately, there was no proper response or elicited activity on the part of the Government or the Croatian Parliament.

Film screening followed by panel discussion chaired by Malu Halasa, with anthropologist and filmmaker Ziba Mir-Hosseini and
filmmaker and editor Simon Ardizzone.

The conference, which was last held in Edinburgh in 2005, will be opened by Dalai Lama. The central theme of the conference: how parliamentarians around the world can contribute to a solution to the Tibet conflict.

OSCE media freedom watchdog Miklos Haraszti welcomes United Kingdom’s decriminalisation of defamation, urges other states to follow. ‘This is a crucial achievement not only for the country’s own freedom of speech, but a great encouragement to many other nations,’ Haraszti said.

Haidar was arrested by Moroccan authorities at the airport in Laayoune, the capital of her home country Western Sahara, upon her arrival back from the US where she had travelled to receive a human rights award. Her arrest follows a spate of recent arrests and confiscation of the travel documents of several Sahrawi activists by Moroccan authorities.

Секретариат международной Сети Домов прав человека и Дом прав человека в Вильнюсе объявляют набор для участия в программе дистанционного обучения адвокатов и юристов международному праву прав человека. Отбор участников производится на конкурсной основе.

The Human Rights Committee voiced its concern at the alarming incidence of threats, violent assaults and murders of journalists and human rights defenders in the Russian Federation, in their concluding remarks of the review of the Russian Federation, which were issued on 28 October 2009.

Two of Russia’s most prominent human rights organizations’ work have been thrown into jeopardy by municipal efforts to evict them from their offices.