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The report Kazakhstan – OSCE 2010: Progress or Regress? On Completion of Kazakhstan’s OSCE Chairmanship tells the story of unfulfilled promises during Kazakhstan’s year as Chair-in-Office of the OSCE. It is published by Freedom House in co-operation with a coalition of Kazakhstani human rights organizations, OSCE 2010: Kazakhstan NGOs Coalition, including Norwegian Helsinki Committee.

A Tibetan writer and activist monk, Lhaden, released his book in Tibet titled “Words Uttered With Life On Risk” this month timed at the third anniversary of 2008 Mass Uprising in Tibet and the ongoing 16th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Norwegian Helsinki Committee calls for the investigation of alleged crimes related to the 21 January 2011 demonstrations in Albania, to respect the independence of the country’s General Prosecutor and for steps to be taken to ensure transparency and real and perceived fairness of the 8 May local elections.

Join us on every 31st in the calendar to support Freedom of Assembly in Russia.

Join us on the 16th of every month in front of the Norwegian Parliament in Oslo to appeal to the Norwegian authorities to increase their pressure on the Republic of Belarus.

20 years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, a new major UN Conference on Sustainable Development has been called, to take place in Rio in June 2012. Preparations are going on, in the UN system, among governments and in civil society organizations. The main focus of the conference shall be on Green Economy in the context of Sustainable Development and Poverty eradication, and the issue of international governance of sustainable development.

Today representatives of many international human rights organisations, including members of the Human Rights House Network, addressed president of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite to take leadership in advocating for the release of political prisoners in Belarus. Human Rights Watch in its new report tells about a post-election crackdown in Belarus, mistreatments, pressures on relatives and lawyers.

On 13 March, Azerbaijani courts sentenced at least 30 people who took part in peaceful protests on 11and 12 March to between 5 and 8 days in prison. The trials were closed to the public. The rallies, in the wake of the mass protests in the Middle East, protested government corruption and called for the Azerbaijan leadership to resign.

On March 16, Human Rights Center Memorial published a comprehensive report covering political repression in Uzbekistan in the period 2009-2010. It shows that country has no legal opposition or independent media, civil society and religious communities are subject to severe pressure from the side of the authorities. Political repression is an inherent part of government policy and torture is practiced systematically.