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EU urged to adopt rights benchmarks for Russia

JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Thursday urged [press release] the European Union (EU) [official website] to adopt a series of specific human rights benchmarks Russia should meet before moving forward...

Russia - Court orders newspaper to refute information, apologise and pay moral damages in...

Nov 14, 2008

On 10 October 2008, the Ufa Oktyabrsky District Court issued a ruling in the defamation lawsuit filed by Justice Rosa Gilyazitdinova against the newspaper "Chas Pik. Na Magistrali". The court ordered the newspaper to refute...

Moldova will pay 6,000 euros in two cases lost at ECHR

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) passed judgments in the Malai versus Moldova and Russu versus Moldova cases on November 13. The Government of Moldova was found guilty in both of the cases and ordered to pay 6,000...

Gypsy kids herded into Czech schools for disabled

By Associated Press Thursday, November 13, 2008 - Added 3m ago PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Roma children face severe discrimination in the Czech Republic and are still being segregated into schools for those with mental...

EU: Set Human Rights Benchmarks for Russia

Source: Human Rights Watch (Paris, November 13, 2008) – The European Union should establish human rights criteria for moving forward with a new strategic partnership with Russia, Human Rights Watch said today. The EU and Russia...

European Court of Human Rights rejects Russian "gay" marriage case

Decision cannot be appealed. In January 2005 activist Edward Murzin, then a deputy of the Bashkortostan parliament, and the owner of the site Gay.Ru, Eduard Mishin, attempted to register their same-sex union in one of Moscow’s...

Nation accused of human right violations

TALLINN - A total of 47 war pensioners have turned to the European Court of Human Rights with a lawsuit claiming that Estonia violated their human rights by refusing to pay their pensions. The Estonian Human Rights Information...

Court rejects claim of expat frozen pension campaigners

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has rejected, by six-to-one, the claim of a consortium of expat pensioner groups, that the UK's frozen pensions policy is discriminatory and in breach of the Human Rights Act.

Legal challenge over Holy Cross may go to Europe

A legal challenge against how police handled the loyalist protest which targeted Catholic schoolgirls at Holy Cross Girls' School in north Belfast could end up in the European Courts, it was revealed today.

Mesrop Movsisian Considers Restoration Of A1+ Television Company's Rights More Important Than...

Nov 11, 2008

MESROP MOVSISIAN CONSIDERS RESTORATION OF A1+ TELEVISION COMPANY'S RIGHTS MORE IMPORTANT THAN FINANCIAL COMPENSATION Noyan Tapan http://www.nt.am?shownews=1009595 Nov 10, 2008 YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 10, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian...