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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.

New Year’s Eve children workshops

Eight journalists were arrested on Monday as police broke up demonstrations against the Republic of Kenya Communications (Amendment) Bill, 2008, which is designed to limit media freedom. Right, journalists running for cover from the teargas fired into the crowds by the riot police.

12-13 студзеня беларускі Дом правоў чалавека ладзіў трэнінг па выкарыстанні онлайнавых матэрыялаў, тэматычна звязаных з Еўрапейскай Канвенцыяй правоў чалавека і Еўрапейскім Судом па правах чалавека.

On 12-13 December the Belarusian Human Rights House hosted a training session on the use of online materials and topics related to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Belarusian authorities continue to hamper and harass the work of the non-government mass media. Once again, independent journalists find themselves in police custody, in the courts and … underground.

Беларускія ўлады працягваюць замінаць працы няўрадавых СМІ. Незалежныя журналісты зноўку апынаюцца ў міліцэйскіх пастарунках, судзе і… у падполлі.

Athens’ demands from Skopje are backed by NATO and the United Nations, the Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis said Monday in an interview to German media.