IHF newsletter Vol.4, No.1, 1998

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Subject: IHF newsletter Vol.4, No.1, 1998

From: MINELRES moderator <[email protected]> 

IHF newsletter Vol.4, No.1, 1998


International Helsinki Federation for Human Righrs newsletter "Human
Rights and Civil Society", Vol.4, No.1, 1998 contains the following
materials:  

- IHF extends its reach to Central Asia; a new TACIS-backed project
(...IHF is actively supporting the Almaty Helsinki Committee in a new
project... entitled "Strengthening human rights activity in
Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan"... The project will continue
in 1998 and most of 1999)

- Kazakhstan: Deteriorating Human Rights Record, based on the report
of the Almaty Helsinki Committee

- Tajikistan: A Hotbed of Tension in Central Asia, based on the
presentation by Ojnihol Bobonazarova of the Tajik Center for
Information and Analysis on Human Rights at the OSCE Implementation
Meeting on Human Dimension Issues, Warsaw, November 1997

- In Minsk, A Step Toward Democratic Development (IHF conference in
Minsk "Creating Freedom and Prosperity - from the Baltic to the Black
Sea", 5-6 December) 

- Hostile Government Reaction on Belarus State TV on the IHF Minsk
Conference

- Prison Conditions in Moldova, based on Report on the monitoring of
the Conditions in the Penitentiary System of the Republic of Moldova,
by Iordanca-Rodica Iordanov and Sergei Ostaf

- Moldovan Penitentiary Legislation vs. European Standards, by Raisa
Botezatu    

- Juvenile Delinquency in Belarus, based on the report Juvenile Crime
and Conditions of Detention of Minors in the Republic of Belarus, by
V.V.Filippov, O.V.Filippova and A.N.Hilkevitch from the Belarusan
Helsinki Committee

- Ukraine: Inhuman Treatment and Conditions in Places of Detention,
based on the paper Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Places of
Detention in Ukraine, by Igor Voskoboinikov

- European Standards for Places of Detention, presentation by Fabrice
Kellens at the IHF seminar on "Human Rights in Places of Detention",
4-7 September 1997, Chisinau

- From Around the CIS: 

Armenia: Militia group that forces resignation of the president has
record of human rights abuses; 

Azerbaijan: Pressure on Turan news agency; 

Belarus: New Media law in force; Increasing pressure on activists;
Sheremet and Zavadsky convicted; 

Georgia: IHF letter to new Georgian ombudsman; 

Kazakhstan: Political opposition under pressure; 

Russia: Controversy over religious freedom continues; High suicide
rate in military; 

Ukraine: Independent press harassed

- Lukashenka government must prove there is justice in Belarus, IHF
statement on the case of Vadzim Labkovich and Alyaksey Shydlouski

- IHF on Internet: http://www.ihf-hr.org/

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