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• Newsletter no 1, January-March 2012

  2011-12-19 - Newsletters
  

  In this issue: A heavy blow was dealt to the Belarusian civil society on 24 November 2011 when Ales Bialiatski, chairman of the human rights organisation Viasna, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for tax evasion and had his property confiscated.

• Newsletter no 4, October-December 2011

  2011-11-04 - Newsletters
  

  In this issue: Successful networking during Pride. During Stockholm Pride in August we were visited by a group of LGBT activists from Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and Central Asia.

• Newsletter no.2, April-June 2011

  2011-03-31 - Newsletters
  

  In this issue: Violence and oppression after Belarusian election, One hundred cases against Russia settled in court, Chiranuch Premchaiporn faces 50 years in prison, and much more.

• Newsletter no 1, January-March 2011

  2010-12-27 - Newsletters
  

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• Newsletter no 4, October-December 2010

  2010-10-22 - Newsletters
  

  Our responsibility to tackle Roma exclusion France’s deportations of Roma to Romania and Bulgaria are controversial. The EU commissioner of justice, Viviane Reding, has highlighted very strong criticism and threatened that EU Commission will take action against France for the deportations. In Sweden the minister of migration, Tobias Billström, has been criticized for the recent [...]

• Newsletter no 3, July-September 2010

  2010-06-21 - Newsletters
  

  Blogs break through information blockade in Vietnam Free discussions on Vietnam take place in blogs and in other social media. With 22 million internet users (out of the country’s total 86 million inhabitants) and an extensive dialogue with the surrounding world, in particular with fellow-countrymen, the Vietnamese have found a way to bypass the information [...]

• Newsletter no 2, April-June 2010

  2010-03-24 - Newsletters
  

  Challenges for Moldovan media in 2010 In the end of 2009 the negative trend on the Moldovan media market was halted and a slow democratization process was initiated. Important reforms were adopted and a healthy competition is now developing. Doina Costin from the Independent Journalism Centre is cautiously positive to the development. Significant changes took [...]

• Newsletter no 1, January-March 2010

  2009-12-04 - Newsletters
  

  Russia must investigate crimes in North Caucasus In spring 2009 Russia declared that the 10-year-long ”anti-terrorist operation” against separatists in Chechnya was over, and that the situation in the North Caucasus republic was stabile.  But the developments during the last few months show that the situation in North Caucasus is all but normal. Since July [...]