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With ´The day I will never forget,´ ducumenting the widespread practice of female circumcision in the Somali community in Nairobi, Republic of Kenya, Kim Longinotto, further reconciled her position as one of Europe´s finest documentarist. At the ´Human Rights in Film´ festival, she received may well have been her biggest honour to date; the prize for outstanding commitment to human rights in film. (15-DEC-03) 
  

For the third time, the Warsaw Human Rights House hosts the ´Human Rights in Film´ festival. This year, with more than 60 films, ranging from cinematic portraits, to feature length documentaries approaching their subject matter in an almost fictional narrative style, the festival is bigger and better than ever. (10-DEC-03)
    

The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR) has organized the first International Advanced Course in Human Rights Defence. On 18 May 35 participants were granted certificates for completing the Course. (28-MAY-03)
 

The Helsinki Foundation For Human Rights (HFHR) will be organizing the 14th International Summer School on Human Rights in the Republic of Poland in the period 6-14 September 2003. The School is intended for human rights activists, teachers and young lawyers from Central, Eastern European and CIS countries. (13-MAY-03)
 

In December 2002 the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR) organized an international human rights film festival. Now, films from the repertoire of this festival are making their way around Republic of Poland in a travelling film festival which has been most successful. (23-APR-03)
 

The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR) organized a seminar entitled ”Human Rights in the United Europe” from 11-13 April. More than 40 graduates from HFHR’s Human Rights School learned about EU institutions and human rights issues related to the EU.  (17-APR-03)
 

Poland’s Government has sent its report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination to the UN. The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has published a counter report, which among other things draws attention to the existence of fascist organizations and the publishing of anti-Semitic materials. (14-APR-03)
 

Republic of Poland faces many human rights challenges. Read about them, and the main activities of the organizations in the Human Rights House in Warsaw in 2002.
File: Background 2002  (26-FEB-03)
 

President Marek Nowicki of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR) in the Republic of Poland has written a letter to the OSCE, remarking Belarusian authorities´ violation of the freedom of expression. (23 August 2002)