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Nov 13, 2009 - Amnesty International has welcomed the commitment by the Macedonian authorities to ensure that the International Day for Tolerance march in Skopje goes ahead on 16 November without h


Tirana, Nov 11, 2009 – United Nations agencies in Albania are supporting the National Strategy for Gender Equality and Domestic Violence under the One UN Joint Programme on Gender.


Worsening anti-gypsy discrimination will come under the microscope on 4 December 2009 in a television debate organised by the Council of Europe.


This year, Human Rights Day on 10 December will focus on non-discrimination. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirmed 60 years ago that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”.


Belgrade, Nov 9, 2009. - Several hundred people protested on Monday in Belgrade against "growing fascism" in Serbia, marking the International day against Fascism and Anti-Semitism on the anniversary of the Nazi Kristallnacht.


After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Jews were subjected to increasingly discriminatory treatment accompanied by organised violence. On November 9th 1938, the Nazis started a pogrom against the Jews. Synagogues were set on fire.


Global Voices, the non-profit blogging community, has launched a new website to track the suppression of free speech online.


Berlin, Nov 03, 2009 - Speech by Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe


Child migrants remain especially vulnerable to human rights abuses as they try, with or without their parents, to cross international borders in search of better lives, a United Nations independent expert has warned.


Strasbourg - The government comments on the 2nd cycle Advisory Committee opinion on Serbia were submitted on 30 September 2009 and made public on 26 October 2009.