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United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
When: Friday, 26. June 2009 To: Friday, 26. June 2009
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
When: Thursday, 4. June 2009 To: Thursday, 4. June 2009
International Day against Homophobia
When: Sunday, 17. May 2009 To: Sunday, 17. May 2009
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
When: Saturday, 21. March 2009 To: Saturday, 21. March 2009
Non-violent Resistance Day
When: Friday, 20. February 2009 To: Friday, 20. February 2009
Human rights situation deteriorates in the Arab region
In its first annual report on the human rights condition in the Arab region, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) finds that the status of human rights in the Arab region in 2008 has increasingly worsened. Attacks on the limited public and political liberties that exist have escalated in most countries in the region.
Norway convicts Bosnian on 1992 war crimes
A Bosnian muslim was jailed for five years on Tuesday for crimes against Serb civilians during the war in Bosnia in 1992 in the first war crimes case in Norway since the trials of Norwegians who collaborated with the Nazis.
Vilnius Media Seminar: сустрэча медыйных партызанаў
Ці магчымая свабода слова ў аўтарытарным грамадстве? Што рабіць, калі ўрадавыя СМІ прапануюць адно прапаганду замест аб’ектыўнай інфармацыі? І дзе шукаць альтэрнатыўныя інфармацыйныя крыніцы? Удзельнікі сустрэчы медыяактывістаў, якая адбылася 4 снежня ў Беларускім Доме правоў чалавека ў Вільні, супольна шукалі адказы на гэтыя і іншыя пытанні.
Vilnius Media Seminar: meeting of media partisans
Is freedom of expression possible in a controlled society? What can be done when official media are all about propaganda, not information? And where alternative sources can be found? Media activists met on 4 December in Belarusian Human Rights House in Vilnius to look for answers together.