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Officials continue to put into practice the Macedonian Religion Law’s hostility to some religious communities, Forum 18 News Service has found. Discrimination continues against the Serbian Orthodox Church and Bektashi Muslim community, and in favour of the two “state faith communities” – the Macedonian Orthodox Church and Islamic Community of FYR Macedonia.

A long line of people in front of the Norwegian Parliament on 7 October was made up in solidarity with all the people in the world, who have to do this every day to exercise their fundamental human right to access to water. The waterline was organized among others by Health and Human Rights Info and FIAN as a part of Blue October Campaign.

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The right to clean water is in the middle of lectures, debates and other events.

The right to clean water is in the middle of lectures, debates and other events.

Amnesty International is trying to halt the execution of three Kurdish prisoners, who are believed to have been convicted based on their their membership and activities on behalf of the Kurdistan Independent Life Party (PJAK).

In Polish law there is in force a prohibition of discrimination in employment being a consequence of the constitutional rule of equality and a result of an implementation of EU directives. It is mostly applied to „classic” employment relationship (the employer and the employee). Article 16 of the Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation provides that this rule should be applied also to independent occupations and professions.

Recently mass media have started publishing the statements by some European officials about the positive tendencies and the political liberalization in our country. In particular, at the beginning of this week Jose Manuel Pinto Teixeira, Head of the European Commission Representation in Ukraine and Republic of Belarus, talked about ‘a certain progress’ on the democratization of Republic of Belarus. How do the Belarusian human rights activists evaluate the situation in the country on the eve of the consideration of renewal of the sanctions of the EU towards the official Minsk? You can learn about it from our interview with the representative of the Human Rights Center Viasna Valiantsin Stefanovich.

Апошнім часам у СМІ з’яўляюцца выказванні некаторых еўрапейскіх чыноўнікаў пра станоўчыя тэндэнцыі ў палітычнай лібералізацыі ў нашай краіне. У прыватнасці, напачатку тыдня кіраўнік прадстаўніцтва Еўракамісіі ў Беларусі і ва Украіне Жазэ Мануэль Пінту Тэйшэйра адзначыў “пэўны прагрэс” па дэмакратызацыі Беларусі. Як беларускія праваабаронцы ацэньваюць сітуацыю ў краіне напярэдадні разгляду пытання пра аднаўленне санкцыяў Еўразвяза ў дачыненні да афіцыйнага Менску? Пра гэта – у гутарцы з прадстаўніком Праваабарончага Цэнтру “Вясна” Валянцінам Стэфановічам.

“Democracy here, there and everywhere,” a training seminar on democracy in organizational development, took place in Oslo mid-September, for participants from Norway and Western Balkans involved in the regional program of Human Rights Schools for youth in the Western Balkans.

Last night, the Politkovskaya award was won by an Iranian campaign for women’s rights, One Million Signatures, against the discrimination of women. After 2007 year’s laureate Natalia Estemirova was killed, RAW in WAR became increasingly concerned about the safety of individual award winners.

ARTICLE 19 has tabled a Submission to the first Universal Periodic Review for
Nicaragua (UPR) by the Human Rights Council in February 2010. In partnership
with the Nicaraguan Centre for Human Rights (CENIDH), the Centre for
Investigation and Communication (CINCO), and Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
Foundation (FVBCH), the Submission analyses the freedom of expression situation in Nicaragua.