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When: Thursday, 23. March 2017 To: Friday, 31. March 2017 Where: Kyiv More info: docudays.org.ua/eng/

For the eleventh time Brussels will see the documentary films of the international One World Festival.

May 17 was created in 2004 to draw the attention of policymakers, opinion leaders, social movements, the public and the media to the violence and discrimination experienced by LGBTI people internationally.

International Women’s Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women.

One World is one of the cornerstones of the People in Need organisation. It promotes documentary film making for human rights causes.

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Highlights include the presentation of the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, appointment of the new mandate holder for the position of Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, and the High Commissioner for Human Right’s oral report on Ukraine.

Human Rights Human Wrongs is an annual documentary film festival in Oslo that sheds light on human rights issues. For six days in mid February, it presents new documentaries from all parts of the world, together with debates, concerts, seminars, workshops and performances at a handful of venues in Oslo.

Some 14 international human rights organisations, including Human Rights House Foundation, issued the following joint statement in response to the abduction and reported torture of Azerbaijani journalist Mehman Huseynov.

On 4 January, Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the Chechen Parliament, posted on Instagram an image of a dog with its tongue tied in an apparent threatening caricature of Caucasian Knot editor-in-chief Grigory Shvedov. HRHF calls on the the local and Russian Federal authorities to condemn the threat.

Video blogger and chairperson of the Institute for Reporters` Freedom and Safety (IRFS), Mehman Huseynov, was pushed into a vehicle in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 9 January. He was arrested by police agents on administrative charges of resisting police. Updated: Mehman Huseynov has been released.

“There is a reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation into the Situation of Georgia in relation to alleged crimes committed in the context of the August 2008 armed conflict,” Fatou Bensuda, the International Criminal Court prosecutor, stated in The Hague on October 13, 2015. The Prosecutor officially requested authorization to the Pre-Trial Chamber I of the Court to open an investigation into the August war. The Justices of the Court satisfied her solicitation on January 27, 2016 and the investigation was commenced.