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Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights invites human rights activists, university teachers and representatives of institutions from all levels of public administration dealing with human rights issues from Central, Eastern European and CIS countries to take part in the Summer School on Human Rights.

When: Tuesday, 13. January 2009 15.00 – 17.30 To: Tuesday, 13. January 2009 Where: Warsaw, 11 Zgoda St. Host: Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights More info: www.hfhrpol.waw.pl/news200.html

Professor Theodor Meron, right, a leading scholar in human rights and humanitarian law, came to Warsaw on 29.11.08 to hold a lecture in memoriam of Marek Nowicki; one of the founders and the first president of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.

When: Friday, 5. December 2008 To: Sunday, 14. December 2008 Where: Warsaw, Ujazdowski Castle and Muranow cinema Host: Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights More info: www.watchdocs.pl

On 2 December 2008, the European Court of Human Rights brought a landmark decision in a case concerning the Finnish authorities’ failure to protect a 12 year old boy’s right to respect for private life following an advertisement of a sexual nature being posted about him on an Internet dating site. The Court was supported in its decision by the amicus curiae brief submitted by Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.

On the 28 September 2008, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the extradition of Nikolay Ivanovich Soldatenko to Turkmenistan would constitute a violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) as well as a breach of Article 13 (right to an effective remedy) and of Article 5 §1 (f) and §4 (right to liberty and security).

The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights is one of this year’s winners of the Sergio Vieira de Mello Award. The Prize is awarded for active involvement in peaceful coexistence and cooperation of communities, religions and denominations, and cultures. Right, de Mello, who was killed in a bomb attack in Baghdad in August 2003.

Last week the last session of the Advanced Human Rights Course organized by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR) ended. Participants from the 12 countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) came to Warsaw in order to enhance their knowledge and skills about human rights. (17-SEP-08)

Last week the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk confirmed that the head prosecutor of the country is investigating the issue of a secret CIA prison on Polish territory during the period from 2002-2005. Polish politicians had persistently denied the existence of any illegal CIA detention site, where possibly Islamic terrorists were illegally kept and tortured. (09-SEP-08)