All posts tagged human rights

Belarus – Heavy restrictions for released journalists

The Belarusian security service (KGB) has released women journalists Natalya Radina and Irina Khalip, but has upheld criminal charges against them and has severely restricted their activities, report the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International (WiPC).

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Reagan is Out, Obama is In – U.S. Embassies in Central and Eastern Europe Ignore 100 Anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s Birthday

TedLipien.com, Truckee, CA, February 08, 2011 -- One would think that the centennial of Ronald Reagan's birthday could be a perfect public diplomacy theme for

Freedom House: Obama Should Call for Mubarak to Step Down Immediately

Freedom House: In the wake of widespread and calculated attacks by Mubarak supporters on pro-democracy activists, Freedom House calls on President Obama to urge President Hosni Mubarak

Russian Authorities Should Investigate Unlawful Evictions in Chechnya

Freedom House: Freedom House today expresses deep concern about the illegal eviction of dozens of Chechen families from their homes in Grozny over the past month and

Kazakhstan – Legislative amendments fall short of decriminalising defamation, says Adil Soz

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: Adil Soz believes recent Criminal Code amendments serve to diminish some penalties but do not sufficiently address the issue of criminalisation of

Supporting indigenous democrats is no imposition

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Conflating democratization with military invasion and implying that democracy assistance is an imposition generates a mindset that

Egypt – Foreign journalists arrested, Internet blocked

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the arrests of four French journalists as they were preparing to cover protests in Cairo today.

Russia – Freelance journalist reported missing

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: Yekaterina Silina wrote about new Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin's initiatives and was in charge of scanning government officials' blogs.

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Egypt – Journalists targeted by police violence, arrests

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns police use violence against journalists covering Egypt's street protests. It is hard to establish exactly how

Balkans: Greater Commitment Needed on Rights

Human Rights Watch (HRW) - (Brussels) - Efforts toward European integration for the Western Balkans are hampered by persistent human rights problems, Human Rights Watch said

Falling for Empty Talk on Human Rights

Human Rights Watch (HRW) - The rest is here:
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EU should press Uzbekistan on news media crisis

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) - Dear President Barroso: We're writing in advance of your January 24 meeting in Brussels with Uzbek President Islam Karimov to urge

Uzbekistan – Rights and freedoms left off agenda of President Karimov’s visit to Brussels

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders is concerned that President Islam Karimov is to be received in Brussels on 24 January for the first

China – Let’s all campaign for Liu Xiaobo’s release

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Let's all campaign for Liu Xiaobo (刘哓波)'s release Wherever you are, Take a photo of yourself In the ' Free Liu

Russia – Neo-Nazi husband and wife go on trial for double murder of lawyer and journalist

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - The trial of two people accused of the murder of Stanislav Markelov , a human rights lawyer specialised in Chechnya, and

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