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The International Day of Peace was in Azerbaijan celebrated by an exhibition called “1000 Women for Peace”. The day presents a unique opportunity for all, governments, non-governmental and international organizations and all individuals to strive for peace and explore different venues for upholding peace on a global, national, and local level. (25-SEP-07)

The Norwegian Burma Comittee is following the situation closely as the Burmese military has directly threatened monks involved in protests in the country. Democratic Voice of Burma reports that the Minister for religious affairs brigadier general Thura Myint Maung warned Burma’s monks not to break Buddhist “rules and regulations”. (25-SEP-07)
 

13 September 2007 in Vienna the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society was excluded from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) – Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights – meeting. The USA delegation left the session in protest. The human rights society is outraged by this fact, because, first of all, it violates the right to express their opinion avowedly. (24-SEP-07)
 

During her recent visit to Oslo, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi welcomed the opportunity to write a letter of endorsement to the Human Rights House Network. Her letter concludes: -I wish good luck and success for all of those who work for the Human Rights House Network and endorse their activities. The success of the HRH Network is our success. (24-SEP-07)
 

Last week, on 13 September,  the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS) was excluded from the meeting in Vienna of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) – Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. The USA delegation left the session in protest. The international human rights society is outraged, because, first of all, it violates the right of the RCFS´s to express its opinion. (24-SEP-07)
  

The group of people with HIV/AIDS has made a request to the Ministry of Health to resume the access to the necessary medicine for the HIVAIDS patients in Svetlogorsk and Gomel. The reasons of the ARV-therapy delivery break are still not clear. This request was addressed for the Minister of Health Vasily Zharko on the September 14 (22-SEP-07)
 

“We congratulate The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights on being awarded the prestigious 2007 Rafto Prize. This has put the Dalit cause on the agenda,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre and Minister of International Development Erik Solheim.
(22-SEP-07)

The Norwegian Council for the Rights of the Kurds (RKR) is currently hosting guests from different parts of Kurdistan. Thursday 27 September at 1 pm, RKR invites to a seminar at the Human Rights House in Oslo, in which these guests play key roles, all representing regions where Kurds make up significant ethnic and national minorities. (22-SEP-07)
 

“We congratulate The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights on being awarded the prestigious 2007 Rafto Prize. This has put the Dalit cause on the agenda,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre and Minister of International Development Erik Solheim. (22-SEP-07)
 

In a sweeping presidential order introduced in July, President Bush took steps to undermine the democratic rights of his fellow citizens.  It will affect people´s right to protest — and could have a profound impact on humanitarian aid, argues Index on Censorship, one of the member organisations of the Open Word House / the Human Rights House in London. (21-SEP-07)
 

In a sweeping presidential order introduced in July, President Bush took steps to undermine the democratic rights of his fellow citizens. It will affect people´s right to protest — and could have a profound impact on humanitarian aid, argues Index on Censorship, one of the member organisations of the Open Word House / the Human Rights House in London. (21-SEP-07)
 

Having Poland’s veto in prospect, Portugal, which heads the EU, has abandoned plans to establish the European Day Against the Death Penalty on 10 October. The decision regarding the Day was supposed to be taken during the session of the EU Justice Council on 18 September 2007. The item was taken off the agenda at the last moment. The Portuguese side decided that a confrontation between Republic of Poland and the remaining 26 EU countries is pointless. (20-SEP-07)