April 2016 ойлик архив
ACTIVITY REPORT (Fiery Hearts Club (FHC) From 1 January to 31 March 2016
Short summary
The Fiery Hearts Club (FHC) has been gradually increasing its activities and audience since its creation, especially with the active support of the FIDH. Recent activities have adressed different thematic issues of human rights interests in Uzbekistan. Contributions from diverse national and international organizations have been and would be welcome to further reinforce activities, as well as to extend contacts.
Financial crisis in”Ezgulik”: Public call to help!
Contacting the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan “Ezgulik”.
Dated: 04.02.2016.
Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan “Ezgulik” was registered by the Ministry of Justice of Uzbekistan March 19, 2003 with the support of the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights Lorne Kröner.
Over 13 years of activity, which has 76 branches about the country, the Society “Ezgulik” issued more than a thousand press releases and more of their permanent and more than 20 analytical reports relating to human rights. Unlike other non-governmental organizations of our country, the organization that operates under fierce pressure to date in connection with the financial crisis is at the termination of their activities.
United Nations Human Rights of the high commissioner: A decision on the case Azimjan Askarov
1. The author of the communication is Mr.Azimjan Askarov, a Kyrgyz national born in 1951. He claims that the State party has violated his rights under article 2; article 7, separately, and in conjunction with article 2 (3); article 9, paragraph (1); article 10, paragraph 1; article 14, paragraphs (1), (2), (3) (b), (e) and (5); article 19 and 26, of the Covenant. The Optional Protocol entered into force for the State party on 7 January 1995. The author is represented by counsel.
2016 World Press Freedom Index: leaders paranoid about journalists
Most of the movement in the World Press Freedom Index unveiled today by Reporters Without Borders is indicative of a climate of fear and tension combined with increasing control over newsrooms by governments and private-sector interests.
The 2016 World Press Freedom Index reflects the intensity of the attacks on journalistic freedom and independence by governments, ideologies and private-sector interests during the past year.
2016 Press Freedom Index: Another turn of the screw in the post-Soviet region
Press release
Media freedom has declined steadily in the post-Soviet states. Nearly two thirds of the region’s countries are ranked around 150th or lower in the Index and their scores keep on falling.
The fact that Russia (148th, up 4) improved its ranking slightly should not raise hopes because its score fell as a result of the persecution of critics, which has reached levels not seen for three decades. And Russia’s behaviour has legitimized the growing repression throughout the region because Moscow acts as a regional “model,” albeit a negative one as regards media freedom.
Letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders
Honorary Chair
The Most Reverend Desmond M.Tutu
April 1, 2016
By fax: + 41 (0) 22.917.90.06 and
email: urgent-action@ohchr.org
Mr.Michel Forst
Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights Defenders c/o Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights – Palais Wilson United Nations Office at Geneva CH 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
RE: Arbitrary Detention of Salijon Abdurakhmanov, Azam Farmonov, Gaybullo Jalilov, Dilmurod Saidov, and Akzam Turgunov (Uzbekistan)
