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Speakers for the evening include former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and author Craig Murray, Alisher Ilkhamov of the Open Society Institute, and Ania Corless, a member of English PEN’s Writers in Prison Committee. Hamid Ismailov, the Head of the Central Asia and Caucasus service, BBC World Service, will act as Chair.

Activists are demonstrating around the world to call for urgent and effective protection of civilians in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) reported an Amnesty International Press release on 27 November 2008.

Police in the Republic of the Sudan arrested more than 60 journalists during a protest against media censorship. Riot police armed with canes and shields rounded up the journalists outside parliament on 17 November and took them to a police station. Those detained were subsequently released.

Honored in Washington, editor is wanted by police back home. On the day Ugandan editor, Andrew Mwenda was introduced here as a recipient of a CPJ International Press Freedom Award, police back home summoned the journalist for questioning over his magazine’s hard-hitting political coverage.

Right, Andrew Mwenda behind bars in the Republic of Uganda

To mark the International day for the elimination of violence against women, the International Federation of journalists (IFJ) today released guidelines for improving media coverage of an issue which is a scourge in society but which is often poorly reported.

Government officials told the chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor Monday that they have no clue where Europe’s most wanted fugitive, General Ratko Mladic, is hiding.

The Norwegian Tibet Committee invites anyone interested to its traditional joint Christmas meeting with the Norway-Nepal Association.

The Centre for Institutional Development and the First Children’s Embassy in the World – Megjashi organized a humanitarian telethon
“Have a Peaceful Dream” on the first Macedonian National TV Channel yesterday, November 23 in Skopje.

The UN’s highest court will hear a genocide claim lodged against Serbia by neighboring Republic of Croatia for alleged ethnic cleansing committed during the Croatian war of the early 1990s, judges ruled Tuesday.

Recognizing the importance of Universal Periodical Preview (UPR) as mechanism that can help the civil society to affect state policies, Human Rights House Sarajevo organizes UPR Regional Seminar and Workshop for its partner organizations in the region.

16 Days of activisim against gender based violence is international campaign. It commences on 25th of November and ends on 10th of December every year.

The Georgian Human Right Centre has handed over documentation detailing allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity during and after the armed conflict between Georgia and the Russian Federation to Mr. Matthew Brubacher, a representative of the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Court. Right, Brubacher together with Simon Papuashvili, far right, of the Georgian Human Rights Centre.