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The First Children’s Embassy in the World Megjashi, Republic of Macedonia continues this year with the activities regarding the Global Action Week Campaign for Education that is internationally organized every year by the Global March against Child Labour. The main objective of the campaign is inclusion of every child in education, and providing literacy for all.

Challenges and practice of education reform and human rights

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders denounces the incommunicado detention of Mr. Mohamed Al Mahgoub, Director of the North Darfur branch of the Amel Centre for Medical Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture, and request his immediate and unconditional release.

The country is not going to comply with the obligation to re-register the well-known HR organization. The Foreign Ministry of Republic of Belarus does not consider the UN Committee’s decision legally binding.

The Political Repression Victims Rehabilitation Law will be useful for Republic of Belarus not only after a political regime change. The participants of a round table discussion, which took place in the Human Rights House in Vilnius on 10-11 April, believe that such a document even nowadays could improve the HR situation in the country.

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) strongly condemns the recent threats made against Slobodan Vaskovic (on right), a journalist from Banja Luka, Republika Srpska (RS), entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Vaskovic received a threatening letter, signed by a group calling itself the Serbian Avengers, following reports about the Serbian Orthodox Church in his publication, Novi Magazin.

The UNHCR and the Red Cross of the City of Skopje have made an in-kind donation to Shelter Center which is run by Macedonian Women’s Rights Center (MWRC). With this help, the Shelter became better place for women and children victims of domestic violence.

Законапраект аб рэабілітацыі ахвяр палітычных рэпрэсіяў прыдасца Беларусі не толькі пасля палітычных зменаў. На думку ўдзельнікаў круглага стала, што прайшоў 10-11 красавіка на базе Дома правоў чалавека ў Вільні, такі дакумент ужо цяпер можа паспрыяць паляпшэнню сітуацыі з правамі чалавека ў краіне.

Authorities in the Republic of Congo should immediately lift their ban on private TV station Canal Bénédiction Plus (CB Plus), the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The ban was enacted in February in response to political coverage in the lead-up to presidential elections in July.

Human Rights House Foundation welcomes the 9 April decision of the Baku Appellate Court to annul the ruling of 7 April 2009 by the Yasamal District Court Judge Tahir Ismayilov against Tezadlar newspaper’s Chief Editor Asif Marzili, to free him, and to return the case back to the first instance court for reconsideration.

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (HCHR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina with representatives of civil society from countries throughout South East Europe (SEE), urges the EU to consider integrating all of the SEE countries together. -A simultaneous integration will be the only way to ensure a peaceful, just and secure future for the people of the region, argues the HCHR.

From March 27 to May 30, the Laogai Museum in Washington, DC will host
“Laogai in Tibet,” a special exhibit highlighting the last 50 years of
human rights violations in Tibet under Chinese rule.