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The Warsaw City Council decided that Hyde Park – a place where it will be possible to organize an assembly without informing the capital’s president in advance and without the need to receive many permits – will be set up in front of the Palace of Culture and Science (right). It is the first place like that in the Republic of Poland. Opening ceremony will take place on December 12, 2007. (05-DEC-07)
 

Index on Censorship and ARTICLE 19 are alarmed by the continuing assault on press freedom in Egypt. This week, no less than three cases will come to trial. All three represent a serious infringement of the right to free expression. (03-DEC-07)
 

Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, right, from Wajir, Republic of Kenya, has been awarded the Rights Livelihood Award, also known as the alternative Nobel Prize, for 2007 “… for showing in diverse ethnic and cultural situations how religious and other differences can be reconciled, even after violent conflict, and knitted together through a cooperative process that leads to peace and development”. She will receive the prize in Stockholm on Friday 7 December.

It is simply incomprehensible thinking that we can join Europe while still having the barriers and distrust in the region such as we have today, it was noted at a roundtable hosted by the Helsinki Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina. (03-DEC-07)

Index on Censorship and ARTICLE 19 are alarmed by the continuing assault on press freedom in Egypt. This week, no less than three cases will come to trial. All three represent a serious infringement of the right to free expression. (03-DEC-07)
 

Totally, from 1987 to 20 November 2007 there have been registered 1232 HIV-infected people in Azerbaijan; the number of deaths in this period is 192 people. However, 1 December, the international day of struggle against HIV/AIDS, there has been voiced a concern that the real number of HIV-infected people is much larger as people, being afraid of the stigma, do not dare to take the test. (03-DEC-07)
 

Totally, from 1987 to 20 November 2007 there have been registered 1232 HIV-infected people in Azerbaijan; the number of deaths in this period is 192 people. However, on the 1-st of December, the international day of struggle against HIV/AIDS, there has been voiced a concern that the real number of HIV-infected people is much larger as people, being afraid of the stigma, do not pass the tests. (03-DEC-07)
  

The Society for Humanitarian Research conducted Master Classes on Human Rights, Conflict Transformation and Gender Issues in Lenkaran. The classes were organized for local representatives of human rights organizations and mass media in 28-30 November 2007, and were financially supported by the South Caucasus office of Henrich Boell Foundation. (01-DEC-07)
   

On the 28-th of November, the leaders of human rights organizations Novella Jafaroglu, Arzu Abdullayeva, Saida Gojamanly, Zaliha Tahirova and Saadat Benanyarly organized a press conference in the International Press Center on the topic “Human Rights in Republic of Azerbaijan in 2007”. (29-NOV-07)
     

A lecture by Judge Aharon Barak (right), former President of the Israeli Supreme Court, entitled “In Search of Common Sense – Proportionality and Balancing Interests in Constitutional Adjudication” was held on 30 November 2007 in the Adam Mickiewicz assembly hall at Warsaw University’s Auditorium Maximum.  (01-DEC-07)

The row over whether David Irving and Nick Griffin should have spoken at the Oxford Union is not an argument about freedom of speech. The Union president chose to invite far-right demagogues to speak, rather than someone who actively campaigns for free speech. (28-NOV-07)

Svetlana Aleksejevna Gannusjkina, right, leader of the independent Russian human rights organisation Grazjdanskoje Sodestvije (Civic Assistance Committee) today received the Sakharov Freedom Award from the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC). Gannusjkina also leads the IDP and refugee programme of the organisation Memorial´s human rights centre (29-NOV-08)