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Aminatou Haidar, right, is to be presented with the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for her campaign on behalf of the self-determination of Western Sahara and against government abuses and disappearances of prisoners of conscious. The ceremony will take place in Washington, D.C the morning of November 13th, in the Russell Senate Office Building´s Caucus Room. (16-SEP-08)
 

Aminatou Haidar, right, is to be presented with the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for her campaign on behalf of the self-determination of Western Sahara and against government abuses and disappearances of prisoners of conscious. The ceremony will take place in Washington, D.C the morning of November 13th, in the Russell Senate Office Building´s Caucus Room. (16-SEP-08)
 

In an attempt to satisfy the People´s Republic of China, Nepal has announced its intentions to deport the 6.000 Tibetan refugees who have entered Nepal illegally or have never been granted a refugee certificate. The figure equals 30% of the 20.000 Tibetan refugees living in four camps in Pokhara, Nepal, right. (17-Sep-08)
 

On the eve of upcoming presidential elections the freedom of assembly has deteriorated even on the level of conducting the round tables as almost all the press centers are suddenly “closed for repairs”, small parks are surrounded by decorative walls for “repairs” and even the political forums on internet sites are prohibited until elections.
      
      

At the beginning of September, four female bloggers were sentenced to prison in Islamic Republic of Iran. In a recent interview with Index on Censorship, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi reflects on the current state of free expression in the country. (12-SEP-08)
 

The Russian Research Center for Human Rights subscribed to the Statement of Russian Non-Governmental Human Rights Organizations called the states and international and non-governmental organizations to make urgent arrangements for protecting human rights and resolving the conflict in Georgia. (12-SEP-08)
 

Amnesty International is concerned about more than 50 imprisoned members of Iran’s Kurdish minority who are currently on hunger strike in prison in protest against continuing torture, executions and other gross abuses of human rights. There are growing concerns for their safety as a result of their hunger strike. (12-SEP-08)
 

At the beginning of September, four female bloggers were sentenced to prison in Islamic Republic of Iran. -The human rights situation in Islamic Republic of Iran is getting worse, Ebadi says, and women are targeted, simply for seeking full equality of rights with men. In a recent interview with Index on Censorship, she reflects on the current state of free expression in the country. (12-SEP-08)
 

31 August Magomed Evloev he owner of an opposition website “Ingushetia.ru” as killed. Evloev died in a hospital of Nazran where he was taken after he had got a direct injury to the head, which he received during detention by law enforcement officers at the airport “Magas” in Nazran where he arrived from Moscow. (10-SEP-08)

Local human rights activists have released a list of abuses allegedly committed by the Lord’s Resistance Army, right, inside the DRC over the last year. “Our investigations, which are continuing, show that there were eight killings, 52 abductions, of which 11 cases involved girls under the age of 18, and nine rapes,” said Benoit Kinalebu, a Catholic priest and head of the Dungu branch of the Justice and Peace Commission.

Last week the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk confirmed that the head prosecutor of the country is investigating the issue of a secret CIA prison on Polish territory during the period from 2002-2005. Polish politicians had persistently denied the existence of any illegal CIA detention site, where possibly Islamic terrorists were illegally kept and tortured. (09-SEP-08)
 

Following her participation in the first ever tv discussion on homosexuality in the Republic of Kenya, broadcast 23 August 8 pm, defender of sexual minorities´ rights Pouline Kimani, right, who featured on the programme, has been verbally abused, chased by people wanting to attack her and received written threats. Below is her story, as told in a recent letter and published with her permission. (09-SEP-08)