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Каля 3000 дэманстрантаў 25 сакавіка ў сталіцы пазбеглі сутычак з міліцыяй падчас. Аднак свята свабоды мірных сходаў у Беларусі яшчэ не надышло. За кулісамі і ў правінцыі – усё тая ж тактыка запалохвання і ўціску.

SOVA Center claims that Russian citizens face lots of problems when seeking to exercise their right to freedom of conscience. Russian anti-extremism legislation is unable to control the process.

In the beginning of February, the Youth Group of the Helsinki Committee in BiH (OGHKBH) began the implementation of the project “Same rights, different us”. The project aims to educate and inform high school students on the topic of LGBTTIQ population and give the support to LGBTTIQ persons in B&H.

New release of e-newsletter of The First Children’s Embassy in the World – Megjashi regarding implemented activities in the period from October 2008 to March 2009, available for download.

More than 30 human rights organizations from around the world today wrote to each state in the United Nations’ five regional groups to urge them to present competitive slates for election to the Human Rights Council. In public letters, the coalition said that regional groups should put forward more candidates than there are open seats to allow the universal membership of the United Nations to select the best candidates from each region.

Around 3000 demonstrators in the capital of Republic of Belarus avoided clashes with security forces during the opposition’s traditional holiday. Yet, it was not the triumph of the freedom of assembly and expression. Behind the curtain, the authorities stuck to usual intimidation and pressure tactics.

The Kenyan government should urgently renew efforts to revise and enact bills to create a special tribunal to try those responsible for last year’s election violence, Human Rights Watch said today. The organization also issued a memo explaining the procedures of the International Criminal Court in relation to the special tribunal.

“Egypt and other members of the League of Arab States should not shield President al-Bashir, right, from international justice”, said Irene Khan, right, Amnesty International’s Secretary General. “His presence in Egypt today should have been an opportunity to enforce the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court.”

Sir Ken Macdonald QC, Former Director of Public Prosecutions, has joined the board of Index on Censorship, the leading free expression advocacy group.

Harmonization of the Croatian legal system with the legal standards of the EU, represents one of the main challenges of the Croatian integration process. The Law of free legal help and Anti-discriminatory law are mere examples of new regulative frames which emerged out of need of coherence of Croatian legal system with those in EU.

Interview with Dragi Zmijanac, Director of the First Children’s Embassy in the World Megjashi.

On 24 March 2009 the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights released a report from monitoring of the commercial divisions of all Polish courts. Monitoring was implemented in cooperation with law firm DLA Piper.