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Russia should reject recriminalizing libel, says OSCE media freedom representative
13.07.2012
Russia
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed her disappointment today with the adoption in a first reading by the Russian State Duma of draft amendments reinstating libel provisions in the Criminal Code, and urged parliamentarians to reject the bill.
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Plans for Internet blacklist in Russia may lead to censorship, warns OSCE media freedom representative
13.07.2012
Russia
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, said today that Russia's plans to set up a new national registry of websites containing allegedly harmful Internet content could restrict Internet freedom.
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Press-Announcement Exhibition to mark the EURO 2012 UEFA Championship "Human Rights Offside"
08.06.2012
Ukraine
On June 8, 2012 in the Cultural-Scientific and Entertainment Center ATMASFERA 360 (the Kyiv Planetarium) an exhibition dedicated to the occasion of the “EURO 2012” UEFA Championship "Human Rights Offside" will open. The NGO Center of Civil Liberties partnered with the Czech organization People in Need to organize this event.
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Uzbekistan: Rights Defender Threatened, Attacked
31.05.2012
Uzbekistan
Uzbek authorities should ensure the security of the human rights activist Gulshan Karaeva, who was attacked and threatened after she publicly refused to become a government informant, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Azerbaijan: Eurovision is deaf to human rights abuses
23.05.2012
Azerbaijan
The refusal of the organization behind Eurovision to condemn human rights abuses in Azerbaijan provides a carte blanche to the government’s crackdown, Amnesty International said after another two peaceful protests were violently dispersed.
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Winners of the Human Rights Defenders Award
21.05.2012
USA
The U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce that Ales Bialiatski of Belarus and Uganda’s Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law are the joint winners of the 2011 Human Rights Defenders Award.
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Human Rights Offside photo exhibition opens June 8 in Kyiv
03.05.2012
Ukraine
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