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Publication Date: 14 May 2009

The planned Baltic Pride march due to take place on Saturday in Riga, Latvia, has been banned.

Publication Date: 13 May 2009

Baltic Pride march in Latvia under threat

A lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) pride march planned to take place this weekend in Riga, Latvia has been thrown into doubt after local councillors att

Publication Date: 11 May 2009

Over 20,000 sign petition for Greek trade unionist

A Greek government minister has pledged to secure justice for trade unionist Konstantina Kouneva after 22,000 people signed a petition to support her.

Publication Date: 08 May 2009

Medvedev's first year: failure to improve human rights

The Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, has not delivered on the promises he made about human rights during his first year in power.

Publication Date: 07 May 2009

Migrants put at risk as border disputes delay rescue efforts

The lives of migrants and asylum-seekers have been put at risk by a squabble between the Italian and Maltese authorities over their obligations to respond to maritim

Publication Date: 03 May 2009

No freedom – journalists stopped from doing their jobs

Press Freedom Day, 3 May, has, for a number of years, been a day in which journalists and media workers marked the deaths of increasing numbers of their colleagues a

Publication Date: 01 May 2009

Turkish trade unionists once again banned from Istanbul central square

Trade unionists in Turkey have once again been refused permission to hold a demonstration on May Day in the central Taksim Square in Istanbul.

Publication Date: 01 May 2009

Roma protest demands Czech Republic stops growing extremism

The Roma community and civil society activists in the Czech Republic are to take part in a nationwide protest on Sunday, against the latest violent attack on a Roman

Publication Date: 27 April 2009

Organizers of Russian art exhibition charged with inciting hatred

Yurii Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeev could face up to five years' imprisonment after they organized a contemporary art exhibition in Moscow.

Publication Date: 23 April 2009

No justice for the victims of NATO bombings

Ten years on, no-one has been held to account for the NATO attack on the Serbian state radio and television building that left 16 civilians dead.

Publication Date: 17 April 2009

No progress in Chechnya without accountability

There can be no stability and security for the people of Chechnya, until those responsible for gross human rights abuses in the country over the last 10 years are brou

Publication Date: 16 April 2009

Azerbaijan journalist pardoned after almost three years in prison

Sakit Zahidov was considered a prisoner of conscience. It is thought that he was imprisoned to silence his critical reporting of the authorities.

Publication Date: 09 April 2009

Organizers of peaceful demonstration blamed for violence in Moldova

The authorities in Moldova have threatened to arrest a group of civil society activists who organized a peaceful demonstration, blaming them for the rioting that fol

Publication Date: 08 April 2009

Europe's Roma community still facing massive discrimination

Denied their rights to housing, employment, healthcare and education, Roma are often victims of forced evictions, racist attacks and police ill-treatment.

Publication Date: 06 April 2009

March through Czech town puts Roma community in fear

Far-right groups organized a march through the Roma-populated area in Přerov in the Czech Republic on Saturday.

Publication Date: 02 April 2009

G20 leaders urged to protect the poor

Eight of the world's leading NGOs urge the G20 leaders to take long-term decisions in the interests of people and the planet this week.

Publication Date: 01 April 2009

Human rights activist attacked in Russia

A prominent Russian human rights activist who has long been critical of the government has been assaulted near his Moscow home.

Publication Date: 31 March 2009

Roma forcibly evicted from Milan settlement

The Roma people living under the Bacula overpass in the North of Milan, Italy, were forcibly evicted on Tuesday by local authorities.

Publication Date: 23 March 2009

Hearing into deaths in Kosovo could find UN accountable

Two men were killed during a demonstration in Pristina in February 2007, when Romanian police under the control of the UN fired rubber bullets at the crowd.

Publication Date: 23 March 2009

Cruel, discriminatory, unfair and degrading – the death penalty in 2008

More people were executed in Asia than in any other part of the world in 2008. By contrast, in Europe, only one country continues to use the death penalty: Belarus.