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´The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights would like to express its deep concern with respect to the Polish Government’s stance adopted at a Common Conference of the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Cluster Munitions Coalition on the prohibition of the use and production of cluster munitions (Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions), held on 22-23 February 2007.´ writes Mr Marek Antoni Nowicki President of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights to the Polish Prime Minister. (16-MAR-07)

´The formation of the “State of National Solidarity” Commission by the Polish Sejm, with the votes of the ruling coalition, is a sign of disrespect for the adopted standards and parliamentary procedures. Avoidance of substantial discussions within the confines of permanent, specialized commissions jeopardizes the quality of the instituted law and seems to testify to a disrespect for knowledge and reason.´ states the Helsinki Committee in Poland. (14-MAR-07)

The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights invites everyone to visit its “film library”. The HFHR has decided to make the educational films regarding human rights and liberties produced by the Foundation, or with its considerable contribution, available to public. (09-MAR-07)

The Young Journalists’ Association “POLIS” and the Viridarium Group are organizing a journalist competition entitled: “TEN INNY”. The competition is carried out under the auspices of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and within the framework of the Council of Europe Campaign “All different-all equal”. (03-MAR-07)
 

Polish authorities and nongovernmental organizations are speaking up for the Belarusian oppositionist Alexander Kazulin, who has remained in prison since March 2006. At the end of 2006, wishing to draw the attention of the international public opinion, Alexander Kazulin began a hunger strike that lasted 54 days and left him extremely exhausted. Belarusian authorities are not allowing doctors from the International Red Cross to see him. (23-FEB-07)

In connection with the case of the cardiologist from the hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration in Warsaw, the Helsinki Committee in Poland calls on state officials, as well as journalists and commentators, to preserve the elementary principles guaranteeing the binding force of presumption of innocence for suspects and the accused. (16-FEB-07)

On 7 February, after familiarizing itself with the positions of the government and
non-governmental organizations, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women issued concluding comments, in which it made reference to the government’s policy and presented its recommendations. (14-FEB-07)
 

´The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Warsaw, Poland) strongly objects to the detention of the human rights defender Ms. Umida Niyazova. This is an example of the inadmissible practice carried out for some time now by Uzbek authorities, which consists in prosecuting individuals benefiting from the Helsinki Foundation’s educational programs´. (12-FEB-07)

On 16 January, the Polish government presented a report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women from the execution of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). A few days earlier (on 12 January) the members of the Committee met with the representatives of Polish women’s organizations and familiarized themselves with the shadow report that they prepared. (25- JAN-07)