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The Ministry of Justice, Mr. Mihajlo Manevski, proposed immediate changes in the Criminal Code and doubled the sentences for child abuse. The immediate changes took place after the meeting of the Government around three weeks ago. Manevski was designated in charge of preparing more severe punishments for sexual assault over children, after it was concluded that the paedophilia in FYR Macedonia was still in progress.

14 Norwegian youth and student organisations on November 6th sent a letter to Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Jonas Gahr Støre in which they demand that Norway takes a more active and leading role in the search for a solution to the conflict in Western Sahara. We believe that it´s time that Norway demonstrates a much clearer support for the Sahrawi people´s struggle against occupation and oppression, the letter reads.

Online we are all free to say what we like, write a blog, post a video, start a website or join a social network. Or are we? Who decides what goes up and what comes down? Which files can be shared or images downloaded?

The First Children’s Embassy in the World Megjashi, Republic of Macedonia is concerned for the children that are enveloped by this difficult situation. The Embassy reacts, raises the public awareness, and seeks fairer and stricter punishments against the guilty ones.

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) today denounces the arrest of freelance journalist Hadis Mohammed Hadis in Hargeisa and call for his immediate and unconditional release. Hadis Mohammed Hadis was arrested on 3 November 2008 at Igal International Airport by Somaliland Criminal Investigations Departments (CID) Officers. Hadis was arrested after seen filming the dual bombings on 29th October in Hargeisa.

ARTICLE 19 welcomes the commitment by the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights’ (IACHR) to develop standards on the regulation of community
broadcasting.

ARTICLE 19 is alarmed by a recent statement by the Bahraini Interior minister, Shaikh Rashid Bin Abdalla Al-Khalifa, reported in the local press, calling for the enforcement of Article 134 of the Bahraini Penal Code against any citizen who attends meetings, conferences or seminars abroad or meets with representatives of foreign countries, organizations or bodies to discuss the internal affairs of Bahrain, without government authorization.

An escalation of attacks on aid workers and human rights defenders in southern and central Republic of Somalia is putting at least 3 million Somalis at even greater risk of malnutrition and disease.
Right, Children demonstrating against the attacks on AID Workers
Photo Source: Amnesty International

Estimates are now at more than 1.3 million displaced people in Congo’s North Kivu Province alone. More than 250,000 people have been displaced since the fighting resumed in August. Right, displaced civilians moving to the IDP camps Photo Source: UNICEF Congo DRC

After almost two years Maria Dahle, the Executive Director of the Human Rights House Foundation, is visiting Zagreb again next week. Five years of continuos efforts to set up a Human Rights House in Zagreb finally yield fruit as the emergence of HRH Zagreb reached it´s final stages. (02-JUN-06)
 

This is the summary of the “Report on the position of Roma in Croatia” and the round table discussion during it’s public presentation organized by Croatian Law Centre on Friday 21 October in Zagreb Press Club. At the same time, the Report represents the end of a mutual one-year project of the NGO’s involved in the emergence of the HRH in Zagreb. (24-OCT-05)

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today warned that journalists in Democratic Republic of Congo are facing extreme danger after Congolese journalist Alfred Nzonzo Bitwahiki Munyamariza was killed in the town of Rutshuru and Belgian journalist Thomas Scheen was kidnapped nearby.