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The Architecture Advisory Council in the Republic of Croatia is envisioned as a bureau where persons with disabilities and other interested citizens can get free professional advice regarding architectonic adjustments to people with disabilities. The Advisory Council provides professional help, not only to individuals and professioal institutions, but to other organizations that work on the disability issue as well.

The campaign runs until the end of June.

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) deplores the election of Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi as President of the African Union (AU).

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has ordered his staff to revise a controversial bill which would loosen the definition of treason. The draft legislation, earlier backed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, has been met with public outrage and criticism. Opponents say the bill harkens back to the days of Soviet repression, and could potentially allow authorities to brand any government critic a traitor. A group of prominent Russian rights activists defines the bill as “legislation in the spirit of Stalin and Hitler”.

In an official statement, the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) condemns a recent attack on the Pescanik internet site and the demolition of Pescanik’s radio programme author Svetlana Lukic’s car in a parking lot near the radio building.

It has been almost a year since the Polish prime minister Donald Tusk appointed Elzbieta Radziszewska for a Governmental Agent for Equal Legal Status. Her work, in particular lack of involvement in discrimination issues, has been strongly critized by NGOs.

Following large amounts of criticism of President Dmitri Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s silence in the wake of the murders of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, Medvedev has finally responded and held a meeting with Novaya Gazeta Editor-in-Chief Dmitri Muratov and former Soviet President and Novaya shareholder Mikhail Gorbachev.

Reporters Without Borders condemns the charge that was brought yesterday at the behest at interior minister Tomislav Karamarko against a journalist who writes about war crimes in the 1990s. Zeljko Peratovic is accused of “disseminating information likely to upset the population” under article 322/1 KZA of the criminal code, which carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison as well as a possible fine.

Together with delegates from the Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan (HRCA), HRHF lobbies at the UN today and tomorrow in relation to Azerbaijan’s review session for the Universal Periodic Review. HRHF’s Geneva office has organised the lobbying with HRCA, who is also the Azeri partner of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH).

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Index on Censorship and Article 19 are delighted to present ‘Burma: Between the lines’, a celebration of art and survival. This special night of theatre, performance, poetry, film and photography will celebrate the ongoing resistance and imagination of Burmese artists, writers and activists.