Southern Europe

Rights Work: Human Rights Defenders in Montenegro

Violeta Krasnic — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:33:29 -0800

How do human rights defenders operate in a country where power “is captured by network of private interests”? Vanja Ćalović, the Executive Director of MANS - The Network for Affirmation of NGO Sector in Montenegro, tell us what happen to those who raise their voices and what is needed to fight those trying to silence them.

Questions from a Parallel Universe

HCLU — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:45:37 -0800

HCLU was very glad that after we filmed Mr. Antonio-Maria Costa being embarrassed by Dr. Frederick Polak, a Dutch psychiatrist at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, he accepted the invitation of the IHRA to address the international harm reduction conference. We prepared a welcome package to Mr. Costa: offered people the possibility to pose a question to him. As Mr. Paul Hunt said in his speech on Sunday, the UN drug control system seems to operate in a parallel universe: HCLU is committed to initiate a dialouge between these universes for the benefit of both worlds.

Human rights precede drug control!

HCLU — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:41:14 -0800

Paul Hunt, UN Special Rapporteur highlights the discrepancies between drug control and human rights in his keynote speech in Barcelona, 10th of may 2008.

In the Picture with Irme Schaber: The Life and work of Gerda Taro

Frontline — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:10:37 -0700

Gerda Taro was a pioneering and largely unknown female photojournalist whose work consisted almost exclusively of dramatic photographs from the Spanish Civil War. Irme Schaber, Taro’s biographer and curator of the current exhibition at the Barbican will present and talk about a wide selection of Taro’s work.

Roundup: Highlights this week on the Hub

Priscila Néri — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:19:20 -0700

Several interesting items uploaded to the Hub this week! Be sure to check out these three:

Karadzic to the Hague

Frontline — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:43:33 -0700

After more than a decade on the run Radovan Karadzic has finally been caught and is expected to be sent to the Hague where he will face charges of genocide, complicity in genocide, extermination, murder, willful killing, persecutions, deportation, inhumane acts, terror against civilians and hostage-taking.

Karadzic to the Hague

Frontline — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:43:33 -0700

Is it time for an independent Kurdistan?

Frontline — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:50:51 -0700

With Iraqi Kurds now almost totally independent of Baghdad, is the time right for talk of a new pan-Kurdish state or are regional autonomies the only way forward?

Mothers of Srebrenica react to the trial of Radovan Karadzic

aljazeeraenglish — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:17:20 -0700

The trial of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, is being closely watched by a group of women who all lost family members in Srebrenica - the scene of some of the worst killings during the Bosnian war in the 1990s.

Barnaby Phillips has this report. (August 29, 2008)

Mothers of Srebrenica react to the trial of Radovan Karadzic

aljazeeraenglish — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:17:20 -0700

Barnaby Phillips has this report. (August 29, 2008)