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On 12 May 12th a jubilee conference dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of the Moscow-Helsinki Group (MHG) took place in Moscow. At the conference MHG’s activities were summed up and the current state of human rights in the Russian Federation was also discussed. The conference was held under the slogan “United we can’t be defeated!” (19-MAY-06)
 

The Russian-Chechen Information Agency (RCIA) will tomorrow, on 19 May, receive one of the Fritt Ord and ZEIT-Stiftung’s Press Prizes 2006 in the city hall in Hamburg, Germany. The prize is aimed at Eastern European media and journalists who are dedicated to independent reporting and who dare to withstand self-censorship. The agency was awarded by the Human Rights House Foundation, Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the Rafto Human Rights House. Right: Stanislav Dmitriyevsky of RCIA (18-MAY-05)
 

Several human rights organizations have voiced alarm at what appears to be an escalation of arrests and attacks on journalists and campaigners in Egypt. Prize-winning blogger Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam was among those arrested after after protesting against 30 April’s announcement that the country’s emergency law will be extended a further two years. (17-MAY-06)

Led by Morris Odhiambo, right, Executive Director of CLARION, the Interim Board of the Human Rights House project in Nairobi has urged the visiting Norwegian parliamentarians to lobby their government to reconsider its current stand on the project in the Republic of Kenya and to actively support the planned establishment of the human rights house in Nairobi. (17-MAY-06)
 

The Pan-African advocacy group African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) reports that nine out of 10 girls in Eastern Africa have suffered physical or psychological abuse, including rape at the hands of relatives. According to the study, 99 percent of women in the Republic of Kenya have been beaten, and this primarily by their mothers, while 94 percent of them in the Republic of Uganda reported being victims compared with Ethiopia´s 84 percent. (17-MAY-06)
 

The 16th day of every month is a Day of Solidarity in the Republic of Belarus. This time it is planned to hold actions near the embassies and missions of the Russian Federation all over the world. The initiators of the protest believe, the Russian Federation can demand Lukashenka stop repressions against political opponents and the civil society. (16-MAY-06)

Cabinet minister John Michuki, right, yesterday threatened a new terror raid against the media only two days after the mysterious bloody attack on a Christian radio station. The shocking warning from the Internal Security boss seemed to be particularly directed at the Standard Group, victims of a raid by hooded security men two months ago, which drew widespread condemnation around the world.

The 16th day of every month is a Day of Solidarity in the Republic of Belarus. This time it is planned to hold actions near the embassies and missions of the Russian Federation all over the world. The initiators of the protest believe, the Russian Federation can demand Lukashenka stop repressions against political opponents and the civil society. (16-MAY-06)
 

Saturday 13 May the Uzbek exile population in Norway, organised a memorial service in remembrance of the massacre in Andijan, which took place exactly one year before and claimed hundreds of lives. Representatives of the Uzbek civil society, Uzbek political emigrants and refugees, together with the Norwegian Helsinki Committee once again articulated the seriousness of the human rights situation in the Central Asian republic. (15-MAY-06)
 

The 8 May, on the Day of Europe, Europeans celebrate victory over fascism. This day was declared the International Day of Antifascists Solidarity under the slogan “NO PASARAN!”  Members of the Youth Human Rights Movement, struggling against fascism, organized symbolic actions of solidarity with antifascists of all countries. According to the latest report of Amnesty International racially-motivated killings, beatings and discrimination are on the increase in the Russian Federation. (14-MAY-06)
 

The 8 May, on the Day of Europe, Europeans celebrated the victory over fascism. This day was declared the International Day of Antifascists Solidarity under the slogan “NO PASARAN!”  Members of the Youth Human Rights Movement, struggling against fascism, organized symbolic actions of solidarity with antifascists of all countries. According to the latest report of Amnesty International racially-motivated killings, beatings and discrimination are on the increase in the Russian Federation. (14-MAY-06)
 

Marek Antoni Nowicki, a member of the Helsinki Committee in Poland (HC), explains that in its new statement the Committee defends freedom of parliamentary debate not Andrew Lepper himself. Under democracy it is important that parliamentarians, especially those of the opposition, should not have to censor their statements during parliamentiary debates for fear of criminal responsibility. (12-MAY-06)