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(Copenhagen) - Corks popped this month in Copenhagen, with Rio de Janeiro voted as host city for the 2016 Summer Games and the convening of the XIII Olympic

Yuri Chaika Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation

Dear Mr. Chaika, We are writing to express our profound concern about recent abductions and killings in Dagestan. We have

(Moscow) - The European Parliament has awarded its Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Memorial, a leading Russian human rights organization and to the prominent human

(New York) - The award of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama should encourage him to apply his stated principles to both foreign

Comment by Free Media Online, FreeMediaOnline.org: Secretary of State Clinton's statement on the third anniversary of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya is a positive step on

By not giving them visas, the Russian authorities prevented two Reporters Without Borders representatives, including secretary-general Jean-François Julliard, from travelling to Moscow to hold a news conference there

October 2, 2009

International Press Institute (IPI), a media freedom organisation with an almost 60-year history of defending liberty of the press, on Wednesday began a five day advocacy

September 29, 2009

International Press Institute (IPI) advocacy mission arrived in Russia to discuss the state of media freedom in the country, reports emerged that Russian freelance journalist and

Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov has won a defamation case against human rights group Memorial and its head, Oleg Orlov. But the trial has given the organisation a

Opinia.US SAN FRANCISCO -- Bloggers and Russian experts in the US have been trying to find out whether the Obama White House coordinated with the Kremlin the

Opinia.US SAN FRANCISCO -- Displaying unprecedented boldness for a US diplomatic mission, the US Embassy in Warsaw conceded on its official public website that Poles believe that

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(New York) - The Copenhagen Olympic Congress should create a permanent mechanism to monitor human rights in host countries before, during and after Olympic Games, Human Rights

Human Rights Watch (HRW) - 2009 Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism Human Rights Watch's Alison Des Forges Award celebrates the valor of individuals who