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- Russian NGO awarded Sakharov human rights prize 17 Dec 2009 00:19 GMT
... Russian NGO awarded Sakharov human rights prize Russian NGO awarded Sakharov human rights ... Memorial, Civil Rights Defenders and the Moscow Helsinki Group said that they will work jointly ...
- FINLAND: Biodiesel Breakthrough or Environment Nightmare? 11 Dec 2009 10:52 GMT
... charge of Greenpeace's Palm Oil Campaign in Finland, says: 'The reality is the company has ... its new biofuel on 300 buses in Helsinki city under an agreement due to end ... mainly oil palm and fast-growing pulpwood trees. Human rights groups in the region have also expressed ...
- Woman conscientious objector faces prison in Finland 9 Dec 2009 09:26 GMT
... The Finnish Union of Conscientious Objectors said Tuesday that a ... for women in 1995. A number of human rights groups have condemned Finland for jailing conscientious objectors. ...
- Finnish Court Upholds Suspension of Priest Elected to EU Body 15 Dec 2009 23:57 GMT
... When Mitro Repo, a priest in the Finnish Orthodox Church, was elected as a member of ... will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. ...
- Alarm as Turkmen Migration Law Gets Even Tougher 14 Dec 2009 16:32 GMT
... Alarm as Turkmen Migration Law Gets Even Tougher ... don’t explain”. Tajigul Begmedova, who heads Turkmenistan’s Helsinki Human Rights Foundation based in Bulgaria, notes that the ...
- Frozen 12 Dec 2009 04:44 GMT
... With each passing day, it seems more certain that ... tax police. Yevhen Zakharov, co-founder the Kharkiv Helsinki Human Rights Group, said that the vertically-integrated Prosecutor General’s ...
- OHR Under Mounting Pressure to Act 14 Dec 2009 09:39 GMT
... Nearly one hundred individuals and organisations have signed ... Sonja Biserko, on behalf of the Serbian Helsinki Committee, Darko Brkan of "Dosta", a civic ... Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, from Washington, the Helsinki Committee in Bosnia ...
- OHCHR, envoys for probe into forced disappearances in Nepal 10 Dec 2009 08:53 GMT
... Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Conflict-Related Disappearances, said. "Although the ... the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland and Norway, and the Representative of OHCHR-Nepal made ... the civil war in the country. UK-based Amnesty International asked the government to immediately arrest Major ...
- COMMENTARY: Civics as a cure for social indifference 15 Dec 2009 16:52 GMT
... , 17, was swarmed, stripped, beaten and stabbed to death ... thus not the sole province of the Helsinki suburb of Viikki ( ), not are they a specifically Finnish problem. Equally, indifference and an unwillingness to ...
- Aceh Activists Shun Meeting With Peace Architect 11 Dec 2009 16:34 GMT
... Aceh Activists Shun Meeting With Peace Architect Banda Aceh. ... the 2008 Nobel Peace Laureate and former Finnish President. Ahtisaari, on a two-day visit to ... to realize what had been agreed in Helsinki, citing the establishment of Truth and Reconciliation ...
- the burqa or the Barbie? 11 Dec 2009 15:06 GMT
... Researchers at the University Central Hospital in Helsinki, Finland put out the 1992 study, " ", ... advocacy group that works to advance the human rights of women and girls across Canada, said: ...
- House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe Hearing 16 Dec 2009 18:55 GMT
... Dec 16, 2009 (Congressional Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX) ... of law, the universality and indivisibility of human rights and fundamental freedoms, respect for human dignity, ... small, nimble TLD secretariat, modeled after the Helsinki Commission, should be established. The secretariat would ...
- Greece Perfectly captured by British Newspaper in 1993 16 Dec 2009 11:12 GMT
... of funding (bribing) by the Greek Government has prompted ... acts or other criminal behaviour, and the human rights group Helsinki Watch says the trials are violations of ...
- 100 Iranian Intellectuals called for Protest Movement's Victim Families Invitati 10 Dec 2009 15:51 GMT
... As Iranian writers, artists, public intellectuals, journalists, human rights advocates, and political and social activists who ... (Journalist, UK) Verya Maz'har (Poet and author, Finland) Zinat Mirhashemi (Political Activist, UK) Shokooh Mirzadegi ...
- ROAR: 'Sakharov's ideas still useful for Russia' 15 Dec 2009 13:43 GMT
... The participants pf a two-day international conference called “Andrey ... tasks the Russian society is facing today. “Human rights activists and leading political figures including the ... Society. Lyudmila Alekseeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, believes that Sakharov managed to predict ...
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