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Coalition pledges for international radio stations in Azerbaijan
A coalition of 24 members of the Human Rights House Network, including three Human Rights Houses, have signed a letter to president Aliev in which they ask to review the decision to ban local language FM-broadcasts of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, BBC and Voice of America by the end of 2008. Banning the three stations from FM would severely deteriorate the Azerbaijani media landscape, they say.
Human rights law into new territory – Marek Nowicki memorial lecture
Professor Theodor Meron, right, a leading scholar in human rights and humanitarian law, came to Warsaw on 29.11.08 to hold a lecture in memoriam of Marek Nowicki; one of the founders and the first president of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.
Azerbaijan: Coalition pledges for international radio stations
A coalition of 24 members of the Human Rights House Network, including three Human Rights Houses, have signed a letter to president Aliev in which they ask to review the decision to ban local language FM-broadcasts of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, BBC and Voice of America by the end of 2008. Banning the three stations from FM would severely deteriorate the Azerbaijani media landscape, they say.
Presentation by Sebastian Roetters
“Peace Brigades International and political situation in Columbia”
Film Festival WATCH DOCS. Human Rights in Film
When: Friday, 5. December 2008 To: Sunday, 14. December 2008 Where: Warsaw, Ujazdowski Castle and Muranow cinema Host: Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights More info: www.watchdocs.pl
Violation of the right to respect for private and family life in the case of K.U. v FINLAND
On 2 December 2008, the European Court of Human Rights brought a landmark decision in a case concerning the Finnish authorities’ failure to protect a 12 year old boy’s right to respect for private life following an advertisement of a sexual nature being posted about him on an Internet dating site. The Court was supported in its decision by the amicus curiae brief submitted by Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.
ICC Prosecutor’s Address to UN Security Council on Darfur
On 3 December 2008, ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo briefed the United Nations Security Council on the Court’s investigation in Darfur, Republic of the Sudan.
Kenyan government proposes draconian law for regulating media content
A new law that, if passed, will allow the Kenyan government to determine the content, style, manner and schedule of broadcasting, has drawn fierce resistance from the media industry.
Bosnian Croat jailed for wartime sex crimes
Under a first instance verdict, Zrinko Pincic has been sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment for the sexual abuse of witness A. during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
DRC president brutally represses opposition
Two years since elections, 500 dead, 1,000 detained, and many tortured. While everyone focuses on the violence in eastern Congo, government abuses against political opponents attract little attention. Efforts to build a democratic Congo are being stifled not just by rebellion but also by the Kabila government’s repression said Anneke Van Woudenberg, Senior Researcher in the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch.
DRC media workers assaulted by political party activists in Kinshasa
In a 26 November 2008 letter to Antoine Gizenga, national secretary of the Unified Lumumbist Party (Parti lumumbiste unifié, PALU), copied to the Justice Minister and Public Prosecutor, among others, JED strongly denounced the attack on media professionals at the PALU headquarters in Kinshasa/Matete after being invited by telephone to cover a public demonstration by the party.
Canada refuses to extradite Croatian war criminal
The Osijek County Court has sentenced Josip Budimcic to 15 years in prison for war crimes committed in 1991.