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On 4 December, the Federal Government of Nigeria foreclosed the prospect of releasing the official report of the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission headed by Justice Chukwudifu Oputa. Federal Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Chief Akinlolu Olujimi said the government has chosen to comply with the judgment of the Supreme Court, which annulled the probe panel on the ground of unconstitutionality. (09-DEC-04)
 

HRH has received indepth information on DR Congo and the continuing conflict which has now cost up to four million lives. Now that neighbouring Rwanda again threatens to invade DR Congo as part of its attempt to settle its own ethnic issues, there is every reason to try to understand a conflict that affects the entire region better. (09-DEC-04)
 

With Gambia as its end-to-end example this article demonstrates that women’s liberation still has far to go in West Africa, or all of Africa for that matter. A quote from the Gambia Women, Law and Customary Practice book sums it all up: “Women’s value is positively and almost solely related to their sexual attractiveness to men and their marriage ability.” (08-DEC-04)
 

The prosecutor of Minsk Savetski Borough Prosecutor’s Office Mikalay Platnitski gave the official warning about “inadmissibility of libeling insinuations” to the head of the central committee of the Party of Communists of Republic of Belarus Siarhey Kaliakin. (07-DEC-2004)

At 10 am. on 2 December the the correspondent of the non-state newspaper Narodnaya Volia in Homel region Iryna Makavetskaya was at Homel Chyhunachny Borough Court. She wanted to write an article about an open trial. In the very beginning of the trial the head of the court Tatsiana Adrybets ordered Makavetskaya to leave the court hall. The journalist refused to do it saying she would obey only to lawful demands of the court. (07-DEC-2004)

The prosecutor of Minsk Savetski Borough Prosecutor’s Office Mikalay Platnitski gave the official warning about “inadmissibility of libeling insinuations” to the head of the central committee of the Party of Communists of Republic of Belarus Siarhey Kaliakin. (07-DEC-2004)
 

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights , Louise Arbour, recommends universal membership to the Commission on Human Rights. – This will give ownership to the human rights agenda to all states, said Arbour, who visited the Norwegian Human Rights House on Friday. (06-DEC-04)
 
 

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights , Louise Arbour, recommends universal membership to the Commission on Human Rights. -This will give ownership to the human rights agenda to all states, said Arbour, who visited the Norwegian Human Rights House on Friday. (06-DEC-04)
 

After numerous publis disscusions, Croatian Government definitely set January 2nd 2005 as a date for next presidential election. Judging by the quantity of affairs that shake Republic of Croatia at the moment, campaign already started and it seems it is going to be most controversial so far. (3-DEC-04)
 

The first of a series of lectures devoted to the memory Marek Nowicki, the late president of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, was held on Saturday, /November 28th/. The lecture was delivered by Professor Arthur Chaskalson, the Chief Justice of the High Court of the Republic of South Africa. (02-DEC-04)

– Amnesty International Norway and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee want to express to you some concerns related to recent developments in Norwegian prison regulations, in particular in relation to a recent plan of measures for implementing pre-trial detention and prison punishment by The Norwegian Criminal Ward Authorities, reads a letter from the organisations to the Council of Europe. Read the letter (02-DEC-04) 
 

Ukraine appears to be heading for a new election to resolve the dispute over last month´s run-off presidential poll. Last week, activists at the Human Rights Houses in Warsaw, Oslo and elsewhere expressed their solidarity with demonstrators in Kiev. (02-DEC-04)

More stories about Ukraine on humanrightshouse.org:

Seminar in Oslo today on the consequences of the Ukraine elections (02-DEC) IHF: Massive violations of electoral law and the OSCE and CoE standards (28-NOV) Covering Ukraine´s elections: confronting censorship, bias and intimidation (Article 19, 25-NOV) Demonstration outside the Ukrainian Embassy in Oslo  (26-NOV) Kiev – Warsaw Common Matter (24-NOV) Demonstration in Ukraine after the election   (23-NOV)