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The First Children Embassy in the World Megjashi begins the campaign “See it. Hear it. Say it.” in order to encourage children, parents, neighbours and close ones, not to tolerate violence, but to report it.

English PEN strongly protests the two-year prison sentence handed down to leading poet Saw Wei, for a poem critical of the authorities. English PEN is calling for Saw Wei’s immediate and unconditional release, as well as of all those currently detained in Myanmar in violation of Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

In his attack on Mr Justice Eady, Paul Dacre, the editor of the Daily Mail, has overlooked the greater threat to media freedom. When it comes to defending legitimate journalism, Britain’s indulgent libel law poses a more serious danger to free expression than the encroaching privacy law.

The Global Forum is a week-long event consisting of membership meetings, open conference sessions and festival events, all dedicated to exploring and celebrating free expression.

The first human rights film festival in Norway that will show the best and most thought-provoking flims about human rights and human wrongs.

Amnesty Region Vest invites you to a concert which is organised on the occasion of Amnesty International’s “Small Places Tour”

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Human Rights House in Vilnius is conducting a competition for the best photograph illustrating a human right or freedom in Belarus.

In a statement, ARTICLE 19 and Index on Censorship called for the immediate release of JS Tissainayagam, a Sri Lankan newspaper editor and human rights activist serving in detention for 250 days under the controversial charges of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).

Youth group of Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina held a street action on 28th of October along with the members of the project The Ban Bus 2008. The street action was a part of a public campaign for banning cluster bombs.

Discussion about the status of the Republic of Kosovo, its relations toward the Republic of Serbia, and arranging the set of activities for the forthcoming Human Rights Day on the 10th of December

More than 50 Sudanese journalists went on a 24 hour hunger strike last week and three Sudanese newspapers shut down for three days to protest against the censorship imposed on the press by Sudanese National Security Services, including the daily pre-print and post-print censorship, and repeated suspension orders.

Такие испытания даются нам не просто так. Человеку, прошедшему через всё это горнило трудностей, уже нечего бояться. Если он выдержит – станет неудержим и добьется желаемого. Человек, как ветка в лесу: те, что ломаются легко – гнилые и плохо горят, а те, что не перерубить и обухом топора – своим пламенем согреют в самую холодную […]