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Time and again in 2017 we saw how resilient, creative, and adaptable human rights defenders can be in the face of repression.

Ва ўсім свеце ідзе акцыя салідарнасці з украінскім рэжысёрам Алегам Сянцовым #FreeSentsov. Сёння – роўна трыццаць дзён, як ён трымае галадоўку. Беларускі дом правоў чалавека імя Б.Звозскава патрабуе неадкладнага вызвалення вязня.

Even after one year since the launch of an investigation and despite the high public interest, the investigative authorities of Georgia have not yet published information about the progress of the investigation. The suspicions about the participation of Georgian law enforcement authorities in organized crime have not been diminished.

Marking one year since the disappearance of Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Mukhtarli in Georgia, Human Rights House Tbilisi held protests calling for his release and for a proper investigation into his case.

Armenian human rights defender, Lara Aharonian, has defended equality and fairness for all with a special focus on women rights and sexual minorities for more than 15 years.

Human Rights House Zagreb, as a human rights watchdog organisation, participated in the consultative process of the Council of Europe’s European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), during the preparation of its fifth country report on Croatia.

Specialists from the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine in the Chernihiv region visited Educational Human Rights House Chernihiv recently, to consider planning joint events in the field of human rights education.

The Belarusian civil society organizations, human rights defenders and international organizations have always criticized Article 193.1 of the Criminal Code due to its incompliance with the human rights standards and provisions on the freedom of association enshrined in the Constitution.

With a focus on the implementation of legal guarantees for human rights lawyers and on the drafting of a Convention on the Profession of the Lawyer, partners of the International Law in Advocacy (ILIA) programme participated in a study visit and expert consultation at the Council of Europe in January 2018.

Seven human rights organisations launched a handbook for journalists covering the football World Cup in Russia.

Signatory organizations respond and express our concerns regarding unprecedented large-scale police operations carried out simultaneously at several clubs of Tbilisi at midnight on May 12 and afterward massive and arbitrary detention by the police of members of the spontaneously organized rally in Tbilisi streets, as well as interference with the assembly and the incidents of degrading treatment.

Если вы адвокат, юрист, правозащитник, гражданский активист или работаете в организации гражданского общества; хотите продвигать и защищать права человека на национальном и международном уровне – подавайте заявку на участие в образовательном проекте «Международные стандарты – в национальную практику» (Bring International Standards Home, сокр. BISH).