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Human Rights House Foundation and a representative of the international Advisory Board of the Human Rights House Network go on a visit to the Human Rights House in Baku.

The international Advisory Board of the Human Rights House Network has a meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia.

On this date, in 1986, the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights entered into force. As of December 1998, all 53 members of the African Union had ratified the Charter.

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) releases a new report today on the general state of freedom of expression in Somaliland. The report also includes a number of unexposed cases of violations of media freedom.

Ahead of the global climate change summit in New York, 169 organisations, including the Norwegian Tibet Committee, appealed to the UN Secretary General on the issue of Tibet. They asked Ban Ki-moon to pressurise the Chinese President Hu Jintao to protect the occupied province from having its climate polluted and the Tibetan nomads from being evicted by force from their original areas.

The research of the Center for Human Rights Zagreb shows that Croatian schools do not offer sufficient educational content to develop children into responsible and self-aware citizens. The system of education does not function in an open and democratic way, and teachers and headmasters do not feel enough competent nor motivated to teach children of the human rights subjects.

The Broadcasting Standards Council of FYR Macedonia has issued a written warning to the TV station Sitel, because of the breach in program principles and failure to keep its duty to protect the privacy and dignity of personality of the 15 year-old girl, victim of family violence, who spoke about being molested and raped by her father without protection of her identity.

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A recent spate of media arrests has provoked widespread condemnation, and raised fears that President Yoweri Museveni might be planning a clamp-down on press freedom ahead of next year’s national election.

16 верасня ў Менску адбылася акцыя ў памяць зніклых 10 гадоў таму палітыка Віктара Ганчара і бізнесмэна Анатоля Красоўскага, якая завершылася разгонам, затрыманнямі ўдзельнікаў і блакаваннем працы журналістаў прадстаўнікамі праваахоўных органаў. Па меркаванню сябраў ГА “Беларуская асацыяцыя журналістаў”, гэтая падзея – яшчэ адно сведчанне невыканання свабоды слова ў Беларусі.

On 15 September 2009 the European Court of Human Rights passed a judgement in the case of Jamrozy v. Republic of Poland (application no. 6093/04) concerning the extensive length of pre-trial detention. Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights presented third-party comments on the case.

Today marks exactly eight years since the occurrence of the worst crackdown on human rights, freedom of expression defenders and independent media in State of Eritrea in which 30 journalists and two media workers were put behind bars.