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Farzad Kamangar, right, was arrested by the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence officials along with two other members of the Kurdish minority, Ali Heydariyan and Farhad Vakili, in Tehran around July 2006. The three men were sentenced to death on 25 February 2008 after being convicted of “moharebeh” (enmity towards God), a charge leveled against those accused of taking up arms against the state, in connection with their alleged membership of the armed group, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

The 9th International Migrants Day coincides with the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Many UDHR provisions vividly relate to some of the threats – racism, xenophobia, labour and sexual exploitation, arbitrary detention and other injustices- and hopes – freedom of movement, right to work, to education, to live in dignity – experienced by millions of women, men and children and demonstrate that migrants rights are human rights.

In the period from 10th to 12th December 2008, The First Children’s Embassy in the World – Megjashi, organized a training called ‘A multidisciplinary approach in the field of violence and negligence of children – recognizing, comprehensing, intervening’.

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Barys Zvozskau, right, president of the exile Belarusian Human Rights House in Vilnius, Lithuania, has received an award from the organisation Human Rights Alliance for his long-term commitment and achievements to human rights advocacy. The journalist Siamion Pechanko and the advocate Tamara Sidarenka also received the award.

“Праваабарончы альянс”, які ўзначальвае Людміла Гразнова, будзе ўручаць прэміі за пасьпяховую працу ў галіне абароны правоў чалавека.

At Council of Europe’s third ‘Regional Congress of NGOs,’ Russian NGOs and civil society organizations from across Europe shared their good practices and most effective methods of interaction with the authorities. Some Russian NGOs stayed away from the Congress, claiming its agenda was too loyal to Russian authorities.

Slobodan Franovic (on right), President of the Montenegrin Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, reacts quite strongly against his own country’s recent hearing before United Nations’ Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review mechanism in Geneva.

A Croat survivor of a 1991 mass murder testified Monday that Serb fighters beat and tortured civilians before forcing them into a mine field, where they died.

Bulgaria is not preventing an association of Macedonians in Bulgaria from registering as a political party. They are refusing to do so, Bulgaria’s Prime Minister claims.

Thirteen years after the United States brokered the Dayton peace agreement to end modern Europe’s most ferocious ethnic war, fears are mounting that Bosnia and Herzegovina, poor and divided, is again teetering toward crisis.