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For the second consecutive year Warsaw authorities have refused to provide consent for the Equality Parade, meaning a peaceful demonstration of gays and lesbians, which was supposed to take place in Warsaw. Warsaw is buzzing with discussion about the legitimacy of this decision. The organizers announce that the demonstration will be held anyhow, as an expression of civil disobedience towards the authorities’ discriminating decision. (11-JUNE-05)

The number of homeless children and orphans in the Russian Federation reached 700 thousand by the end of 2002 (according to Russian Children’s Fund). This number is comparable to the number of orphans following the Second World War. (11-JUNE-05)
 

In the wake of the joint Human Rights House Foundation and Norwegian Helsinki Committee demonstrations a couple of weeks ago against the massacres in Andijan, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee is preparing a fact-finding mission to learn more about what really happened, and the context in which this ought best to be understood. Now, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has broken the news that human rights defenders are being particularly targeted. Read HRW?s full story below. (10-JUNE-05)
  

-I have been extremely impressed by the work of the Human Rights House Network. Contributions by the Network to the establishment of ‘human rights houses’ provides very practical and much needed support to individual human rights defender organisations and also to networks of defenders, says Hina Jilani, UN Special Representative to the Secretary General on the situation of human rights defenders in a letter of endorsement. (10-JUNE-05)
 

-Museveni is not interested in peace. For as long as he´s in power, there is little hope of having a real, genuine peace process between the government and the rebels in Northern Republic of Uganda. Our wsh is that the international donor-diplomacy community could speak out louder about this, said Jessica B. Nkuuhe of Isis-WICCE to a packed auditorium at the Norwegian Human Rights House recently. (9-JUNE-05)
 

-Museveni is not interested in peace. For as long as he´s in power, there is little hope of having a real, genuine peace process between the government and the rebels in Northern Republic of Uganda. Our wsh is that the international donor-diplomacy community could speak out louder about this, said Jessica B. Nkuuhe of Isis-WICCE to a packed auditorium at the Norwegian Human Rights House recently. (9-JUNE-05)
 

Eight Serbian NGO`s made the draft of a Declaration on Srebrenica and put forth to the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia. They also called Serbian Authorities to adopt the Declaration, and to join the democratic world that will evoke the memory of Srebrenica crime so as to manifest that it has made up its mind that the history of mankind would never again witness such horror of organized and massive murder of people just because of their identity. (08-JUN-05)

Eight Serbian NGO`s made the draft of a Declaration on Srebrenica and put forth to the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia. They also called Serbian Authorities to adopt the Declaration, and to join the democratic world that will evoke the memory of Srebrenica crime so as to manifest that it has made up its mind that the history of mankind would never again witness such horror of organized and massive murder of people just because of their identity. (08-JUN-05)
 

Minsk: On 26 May 2005, police seized all the copies of the independent
weekly “Den” when it made a new attempt to publish. The paper has been off newsstands for one year according to Reporters Sanse Frontiers (RSF)(06-JUNE-05).
 

On Thursday June 2nd, two Polish non-government organizations – the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and the Polish Federation for Woman and Family Planning approached the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) with a motion to participate as “amicus curiae” in the case of Alicja T. versus Republic of Poland. (04-JUNE-05)

Minsk: Human Rights Center Viasna expresses its decisive protest against the criminal case against the oppositional activists Paviel Sieviaryniets and Mikalai Statkievich. According to the court verdict, both politicians were sentenced to three years of jail on 31 May. (3-JUNE-05)
 

Minsk: Human Rights Center Viasna expresses its decisive protest against the criminal case against the oppositional activists Paviel Sieviaryniets and Mikalai Statkievich. According to the court verdict, both politicians were sentenced to three years of jail on 31 May. (3-JUNE-05)