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What's New in the Last Weeks

MACEDONIA - ECMI's new web site www.ecmimacedonia.org
ECMI
29/10/2004

CROATIA - Renewed Action on Racially Segregated Schools in Croatia
ERRC
29/10/2004

SERBIA - HLC requests police protection for witness in Roma abuse case
HLC
29/10/2004

MACEDONIA - German parliament adopts a document for Macedonian name and decentralization
MILS
29/10/2004

ALBANIA - Awareness raising round table for the respect of rights of minorities and communities in the circuit of Korca
AHC
28/10/2004

ALBANIA - What happened to Remzi Hoxha?
AI/AHC/AHRG/ARCTT/CDHRF
28/10/2004

CYPRUS - Turkish Cypriot editor continues to face legal harassment
IFJ/IFEX
28/10/2004

SERBIA - Kosovo Albanians awarded compensation for unlawful detention in Serbia
HLC
28/10/2004

GREECE - Greece attacked by UNHCR over asylum seeker and refugee treatment
GHM
28/10/2004

INTERNATIONAL - RSF releases "Third Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index"
RSF/IFEX
27/10/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM concerned about changes in management of local public media following local government elections
ANEM/IFEX
27/10/2004

MONTENEGRO - Public broadcasting service - politics as a destiny
Media Online
25/10/2004

GREECE - Greek anti-discrimination law drafted again
Kathimerini
25/10/2004

ROMANIA - The Romanian Holocaust publicly denied on National TV station
MCA
25/10/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Bulletin - 37 (120)/2004
Divers
25/10/2004

ROMANIA/BULGARIA - Pili launches new source book - "Separate and unequal; combating discrimination against Roma in education"
ERRC
24/10/2004

GREECE - American Jewish Committee Meets with Greek Government and Opposition Leaders in Athens
American Jewish Committee
24/10/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM managing board withdraws nominations for Broadcast Council members
ANEM/IFEX
22/10/2004

MACEDONIA - Monastery demolished - Another Church demolition planned, and Metropolitan to be jailed?
Forum 18
22/10/2004

SERBIA - Serbian Helsinki Committee: "Political Essay - Popular State: The Radical Concept of Democracy"
IHF
22/10/2004

SERBIA - World Jewish Congress promotes religious tolerance in Serbia
APW
22/10/2004

MACEDONIA - Macedonian Helsinki Committee: "Government silences critics"
MILS
22/10/2004

MACEDONIA - Diplomatic incident around transit of Serbian Bishop Irinej through Macedonia
MILS
22/10/2004

BOSNIA - CDRSEE Opinion Poll in Bosnia and Herzegovina
CDRSEE
21/10/2004

BULGARIA - MHRMC/Vinozhito Report on Macedonian Minority in Bulgaria - OSCE 2004 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
MHRMC/Vinozhito
21/10/2004

GREECE - MHRMC/Vinozhito Report on Macedonian Minority in Greece - OSCE 2004 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
MHRMC/Vinozhito
21/10/2004

ALBANIA - MHRMC/Vinozhito Report on Macedonian Minority in Albania - OSCE 2004 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
MHRMC/Vinozhito
21/10/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 12-19 October 2004
ANEM/IFEX
21/10/2004

BOSNIA - Bosnian Serbs admit 7,000 killed in srebrenica massacre
RFE/RL
20/10/2004

ROMANIA - Romanian president puts 'shameful' holocaust episode to rest
RFE/RL
20/10/2004

SERBIA - HLC objections to expert finding in Ristic case - 15.october 2004
HLC
20/10/2004

GREECE - Vindication for Olga B., Trafficking Victim - Indictment of Bailiffs Who Served Her Summons to Inapposite Address (1/10/2004)
GHM
20/10/2004

KOSOVO - Venice Commission recommends Human Rights Court for Kosovo
CoE
20/10/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 5-12 October 2004
ANEM/IFEX
20/10/2004

GREECE - Appeals court rules against publisher for dismissing journalist who had decried censorship
IFJ/IFEX
20/10/2004

MACEDONIA - ARTICLE 19 issues second memorandum on draft access to information law
ARTICLE 19/IFEX
20/10/2004

GREECE - Book banned, publisher and author charged with "blasphemy"
IPA/IFEX
20/10/2004

GREECE - Sports journalist victim of violent attack
RSF/IFEX
20/10/2004

TURKEY - RSF raises concerns about press freedom situation; journalist held for 12 hours at Istanbul anti-terrorist police headquarters
RSF/IFEX
20/10/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs - 36 (119)/2004
DIVERS
20/10/2004

SLOVENIA - Strike in Slovenia: What the journalists wanted
Media Online
20/10/2004

GREECE - Greek MP Liana Kaneli gives evidence for Milosevic
B92
19/10/2004

ALBANIA - Police Violence Again in Albania
AHC
15/10/2004

BULGARIA - Bulgaria Violates its International Obligations Rejecting the Draft for Establishment of Fund for Educational Integration of Minority Children
HRP
13/10/2004

ROMANIA - ECMI Ethnopolitical Map of Europe
ECMI
13/10/2004

GREECE - Greece Exposed on Segregation of Roma
ERRC/COHRE/GHM
12/10/2004

GREECE - Macedonian minority criticise Greece at OSCE conference
EUROLANG
12/10/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs - 35 (118)/2004
DIVERS
12/10/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Regulations flouted in handover of broadcaster to church
ANEM/IFEX
12/10/2004

ALBANIA - Minority Rights Seminar in Shkodra, Albania
AHC
12/10/2004

BULGARIA - Roma Children are not Children of Bulgaria, Decide the Parliament
HRP
10/10/2004

GREECE - "I Am A Victim But I Am Treated Like A Suspect" - "I Am In Fear For My Life": Cries In Agony Of Recognized But Unprotected Victims Of Human Trafficking (25/9/2004)
GHM
06/10/2004

TURKEY - IPA calls for amendment to Penal Code to allow for free expression on Armenian genocide
IPA/IFEX
06/10/2004

CROATIA - Rights of children must be respected
AI
06/10/2004

TURKEY - Turkey fully deserves negotiations for EU accession, says Terry Davis
CoE
06/10/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of Nati onal Minorities: CM resolutions on Poland and Spain
CoE
05/10/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 28 Sep-5 Oct 2004
ANEM/IFEX
05/10/2004

CROATIA - First FCNM opinions under the 2nd cycle of monitoring concerning Croatia and Liechtenstein
CoE
05/10/2004

ROMANIA - Romania and the Holocaust: the Right Steps in the Right Direction
MCA
05/10/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - PACE's first assessment of Serbia and Montenegro since it joined the Council of Europe
CoE
05/10/2004

ALBANIA - Helsinki Commission Holds Hearing on Advancing Democracy in Albania
CSCE
05/10/2004

TURKEY - Progress on Human Rights Key to EU Bid
HRW
04/10/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs 34 ( 117)/2004
Divers
04/10/2004

INTERNATIONAL - MIRIS newsletter (on Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia)
MIRIS
01/10/2004

BULGARIA - IFJ condemns conviction of journalists for refusing to reveal sources
IFJ/IFEX
30/09/2004

BOSNIA - Break-in of the Helsinki Committee for Human Right's office in Sarajevo
THE OBSERVATORY
30/09/2004

BULGARIA - First Five Roma Rights Victories under New Bulgarian Equality Law
ERRC
30/09/2004

CROATIA - Ethical aspects of reporting on ethnic minorities
Media Online
30/09/2004

ALBANIA/GREECE - On the joint GHM-AHC press conference in Thessaloniki on 15 September 2004
AHC
29/09/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 21-28 Sep 2004
ANEM/IFEX
29/09/2004

GREECE - 120 NGOs stress that the Draft European Convention against Trafficking in Human Beings must be strengthened
GHM
28/09/2004

SERBIA - Deepest concern for the deteriorating situation of Mrs. Svetlana Djordjevic.
The Observatory
28/09/2004

BULGARIA/MACEDONIA - Public Information Still Hard To Get, Armenia-Bulgaria-Macedonia-Peru-South Africa Survey Finds
Justice Initiative
28/09/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO/KOSOVO - RSF calls for thorough probe into shooting
RSF/IFEX
27/09/2004

GREECE - Greek Weekly on the Generalized Absence of Reaction to Mikis Theodorakis' New Anti-Semitic Remarks
GHM
27/09/2004

BOSNIA - Files of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia-Herzegovina Stolen
IHF
27/09/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs 33 ( 116)/2004
Divers
27/09/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO/KOSOVO - Kosovo journalist attacked
IFEX
27/09/2004

ROMANIA - Government Strategy Lags Behind While Roma Capacity is Underused
RCRC/EUMAP/RPP
25/09/2004

GREECE - Residence and Work Permits Not Issued to Trafficking Victims in Greece! (8/9/2004)
GHM
25/09/2004

MACEDONIA - Macedonian border police turn back Greek and Serbian clerics
RFE/RL
24/09/2004

MACEDONIA - Serbian orthodox "will never get registration"
FORUM 18
23/09/2004

BULGARIA - SEEMO concerned about recent court decision involving Sofia-based daily "Trud"
IPI/IFEX
23/09/2004

GREECE - Giorgos Monastiriotis is a prisoner of conscience and must be released
AI
22/09/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 14-21 Sep 2004
ANEM/IFEX
22/09/2004

TURKEY - Simple Steps to Root Out Torture: Increased Police Supervision Could Deliver Rapid Results
HRW
22/09/2004

ALBANIA - Regarding the progress of electoral reform in Albania
AHC
20/09/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs - 32(115)/2004
Divers
20/09/2004

INTERNATIONAL - ECRI's Listserve/ Antisemitism Recommendation - Listserve de l'ECRI / Recommandation contre l'antis�mitisme
ECRI
18/09/2004

GREECE - One Conviction for Injury and Two Acquittals for Abuse of Albanian at Greek-Albanian Border Crossing in 2002
GHM
18/09/2004

GREECE - Greece's Anti-Semitism Problem [M. Rusling, Intellectual Conservative, 15-9-04]
Intellectual Conservative
18/09/2004

CYPRUS - Secretary General of the Council of Europe welcomes the re-opening of Greek Cypriot school in northern Cyprus
CoE
16/09/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 7-14 Sep 2004
ANEM/IFEX
16/09/2004

SERBIA - Serbian supreme court upholds ruling in racial discrimination case
HLC
16/09/2004

ROMANIA - SEEMO concerned over interference by media owners in media outlets' editorial policies
IPI/IFEX
15/09/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs 31 (114 )/2004
Divers
13/09/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Religious discrimination in eastern Europe (including Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Slovenia)
FORUM 18
09/09/2004

GREECE - AHC Statement on Violence Agianst Albanians in Greece
AHC
09/09/2004

SERBIA - Serbian leader seeks to play down ethnic tensions in Vojvodina
RFE/RL
09/09/2004

ROMANIA - Evenimentul Zilei, Romania - Statement
FreeEx
09/09/2004

ROMANIA - Two journalists attacked
IPI/IFEX
09/09/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 31 Aug - 7 Sep 2004
ANEM/IFEX
07/09/2004

GREECE/MACEDONIA - Reported prosecutor charges in case of Pakistani migrants killed on their way to Greece in February 2002
MILS
07/09/2004

GREECE - Albanian immigrants denounce widespread violence in Greece
AFP
07/09/2004

EUROPE - Government Transparency Under Scrutiny in Southeast Europe
Justice Initiative
06/09/2004

ROMANIA - Protest against press trust Ringier
FreeEx
06/09/2004

BULGARIA - Electronic media in Bulgaria predicting the present
Media Online
06/09/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO/KOSOVO - Photojournalist's camera seized, photographs erased
IPI/IFEX
06/09/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs 30 ( 113)/2004
Divers
06/09/2004

GREECE - One Albanian dead in Greece after World Cup qualifier
Reuters
05/09/2004

EUROPE - SWC to UEFA: "Show Red Card to Antisemitism"
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE
03/09/2004

GREECE - ADL Says Greek Composer's Unrepentant Anti-Semitism Does Not Deserve Olympic Honor - Greek Composer Reveals A Penchant for Bigotry
ADL
02/09/2004

SLOVENIA - NGO warns of intolerance in Slovenia
RFE/RL
02/09/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Call for nominations for ANEM Lighthouse Award
ANEM/IFEX
02/09/2004

TURKEY/CYPRUS - Chamber hearing Xenides-Arestis v. Turkey
ECHR
02/09/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Latest news from the Council of Europe Secretariat of the Framewo rk Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
CoE
01/09/2004

ROMANIA - Grand chamber hearing on Freedom of Expression case Cumpana and Mazare v. Romania
ECHR
01/09/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 24-31 August 2004
ANEM/IFEX
31/08/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Media organisations concerned over amendments to Broadcast Act as regards the process of electing Broadcast Council members
ANEM/IFEX
31/08/2004

ALBANIA - Freedom of the media and information shall be observed
AHC
31/08/2004

GREECE - A poisonous tune is playing again [on Mikis Theodorakis' anti-Semitism]
Haaretz Editorial
31/08/2004

SERBIA - Hate speech in the electronic media in election campaigns in Serbia
Media Online
29/08/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs 29 (112)/2004
Divers
29/08/2004

GREECE - Does "IOC" Stand for �Intolerant Olympic Committee� Following Award to Intolerant Mikis Theodorakis and Tolerance of Roma Evictions?
GHM
29/08/2004

GREECE - Remarkable Statement by Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyannis on the Plights of Greece's Roma
GHM
28/08/2004

GREECE - NY Newsday, Agence France Presse and Voice of America Report on Roma Around Athens
GHM
28/08/2004

GREECE - Desecration of a Komotini Holocaust Memorial Amidst the Usual Widespread Indifference in Greece
GHM
28/08/2004

GREECE - Athens gay scene out for the Games [E. Tzortzi, Reuters 27-8-04]
Reuters
27/08/2004

GREECE - The Jewish problem, according to Theodorakis (Ari Shavit, Ha'aretz 26-8-2004)
Ha'aretz
26/08/2004

TURKEY - Women Are Against Virginity Tests
Bianet
26/08/2004

GREECE - "Rainbow" does not seek framework agreement for Macedonians in Greece
RSF/MILS
26/08/2004

TURKEY - Local radio station suspended for one month
RSF/IFEX
25/08/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 17-24 August 2004 (2)
ANEM/IFEX
25/08/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 17-24 August 2004 (1)
ANEM/IFEX
25/08/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Media privatisation rules adopted
ANEM/IFEX
24/08/2004

BOSNIA - How the new defamation law is applied in B&H: Journalists are sued by politicians and also by - journalists!
Media Online
24/08/2004

MACEDONIA - Macedonian Helsinki Committee: Against Party Pressures as a Model of Discrediting
IHF
24/08/2004

BULGARIA - The Roma Organizations in Bulgaria Condemn the Racist Calls of a Trade Union Leader
HRP
24/08/2004

GREECE - :"Athens' Gypsies say they're being hidden": Associated Press Visit to Roma Settlements in Spata and Aspropyrgos
GHM
24/08/2004

TURKEY - Wiesenthal Centre Urges Turkey to Condemn Antisemitic Article...
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE
23/08/2004

GREECE - Wiesenthal Centre Denounces Prejudice against Gypsies in Athens
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE
23/08/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs 28 (111 )/2004
Divers
23/08/2004

MACEDONIA/ALBANIA/BULGARIA/GREECE - "International conference in Macedonia for the Macedonian issue" (in Albania, Bulgaria, Greece)
MILS
23/08/2004

GREECE - A "Pretty Depressing" Note on the Thessaloniki Synagogue
Michael Lovinger
22/08/2004

SERBIA - Serbian Gypsies and Jews in Dispute Over Cemetery (N. Wood, NYTimes 22-8-04)
NYTimes
22/08/2004

GREECE - Gypsies say Olympic hosts pushing them aside - Police claim "Roma, as a group, regularly show elevated levels of illegal conduct"! [Th. Kabanis, Boston Globe, 21-8-04]
Boston Globe
21/08/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Press ban in Najaf boosts civilian risk, says Human Rights Watch
HRW/IFEX
19/08/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 17-20 August 2004
ANEM/IFEX
19/08/2004

GREECE - Olympic dream is a nightmare for Athens' poor [M. Schofield, Knight Ridder Newspapers, 19-8-04]
Knight Ridder Newspapers
19/08/2004

GREECE - `Celebrating humanity' or worshipping mammon? [J. Vasilopoulos, Green Left Weekly, 18-8-04]
Green Left Weekly
18/08/2004

GREECE - Antisemites smother democracy in cradle (in Greece)
Simon Wiesenthal Center
18/08/2004

CROATIA - Croatia's defamation law: the hypocrisy of ministerial protection
Media Online
18/08/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - UN report urges greater respect for freedom of expression
ARTICLE 19/IFEX
16/08/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Roma Rights 2/2004: Ethnic Statistics (and news from Bosnia, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia)
ERRC
16/08/2004

GREECE - Neo-Nazis' "Olympic Welcome" to Jews in Greece: "Juden Raus! Hitler Was Right."
GHM
15/08/2004

ROMANIA - Law on ethnic minorities in Romania likely to be adopted next year
EBLUL
13/08/2004

GREECE - "Roma Communities Evicted for Olympics" (First COHRE Evictions Monitor)
COHRE
13/08/2004

GREECE - Weblog on Olympics' impact on lives of local residents by makers of "Uprooted" (on Olympic Stadium Roma)
Guardian
13/08/2004

GREECE - Olympic Town Mayor to BBC: "We should try and incorporate Roma into society, but we can't paint them white"!
BBC
13/08/2004

GREECE - Expulsion de Roms, la face sombre des Jeux Olympiques
Le Courier
13/08/2004

GREECE - Urge Greek PM to fight antisemitism in Greece
SWC
13/08/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 3 August - 4 August
ANEM/IFEX
13/08/2004

INTERNATIONAL - New UN Rules Expand Rights of Non-Citizens
Justice Initiative
11/08/2004

TURKEY - New human rights journal available online (includes articles on Roma and Turkey)
EHRR
11/08/2004

BULGARIA - ERRC lawsuits in Bulgarian restaurant discrimination cases
ERRC
11/08/2004

CYPRUS - "...spies, deserters and undesirable persons...", the Gypsies of Cyprus, 1322-2003
Kuri Journal
11/08/2004

SERBIA - Criminal complaint for expulsion of Roma
CPM/ERRC/HLC
11/08/2004

CYPRUS - New Publication: Cyprus after the failure of the Annan-Plan (ECMI Brief #11)
ECMI
11/08/2004

CROATIA - On the trail of a Croat request to restructure the public broadcasting system: DISSATISFIED WITH THE STATE
Media Online
11/08/2004

GREECE - Statements to "Avghi" by Livia Jaroka, Claude Chan, and Vasilis Paiteris Following Visits to Roma Settlements Near Athens' Olympic Stadium [in greek]
GHM
10/08/2004

GREECE - Pioneer Hellenic Police Circular Showing Sensitivity to Roma. "Open Channel of Communication" Between Greek Ministry of Education and European Roma Rights Center. [in greek]
GHM
09/08/2004

GREECE - Olympics "clean-up" hits city's most vulnerable inhabitants - Athens Olympic Games security raises human rights concerns
AI
07/08/2004

SERBIA - Criminal complaint against police for abusing Roma man
CPM/ERRC/HLC
07/08/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 27 July - 3 August 2004
ANEM/IFEX
07/08/2004

BULGARIA - Police expulsion of alternative orthodox a dangerous precedent?
FORUM 18
05/08/2004

SERBIA - Religious freedom survey, August 2004
FORUM 18
05/08/2004

GREECE - Two Mexican journalists and their interpreter detained and manhandled by coast guard
RSF/IFEX
05/08/2004

EUROPE - 60 years after central Europe's Romany Holocaust
RFE/RL
02/08/2004

MACEDONIA - Make or Break - New ICG briefing
ICG
02/08/2004

GREECE - Forging an Alliance for the Effective Defense of Roma Rights in Greece [in greek]
Jaroka/Paiteris/ERRC/GHM
02/08/2004

GREECE - SBS (Australian TV) on Roma and the Olympics in Athens (June 9, 2004)
SBS Dateline
30/07/2004

BULGARIA - Bulgarian Police Seizures of Church Properties
CSCE
27/07/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ARTICLE 19 publishes third analysis of draft access to information law
ARTICLE 19/IFEX
27/07/2004

INTERNATIONAL - News from Bulgaria, Bosnia, Cyprus, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro
MIRIS
27/07/2004

KOSOVO - Rrights group's report on Kosova sparks controversy and brings a sharp response
RFE/RL
27/07/2004

MACEDONIA - Democratic decentralisation by citizens standards
MHC
26/07/2004

BULGARIA - First court victory for Roma based on the new Bulgarian anti-discrimination act
ERRC
26/07/2004

BULGARIA - Stop violent acts against priests from the Synod of Bishop Inokentii
IHF
26/07/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs no 27 (110)
Divers
26/07/2004

SERBIA - On the Draft Law on Religious Freedoms, Churches, Religions Communities, and Religious Associations - Church Gets Attributes of Civil Authority
HCHRS
25/07/2004

BULGARIA - Police raid Orthodox Churches
FORUM 18
25/07/2004

GREECE - Preparing for the Olympic Games: Evicting the Roma
AI
25/07/2004

GREECE - Deputy Minister Nakos Calls for a New Beginning in Solving the Gypsies' Problems
MPA
25/07/2004

GREECE - Workers in peril at Athens Olympics sites
BBC
23/07/2004

TURKEY - IPA concerned about dangers threatening publishers in lead up to consideration of Turkey's membership in the EU
IPA/IFEX
23/07/2004

BULGARIA - HRP Intervention Leads to Resumption of Investigation on Incitement of Ethnic Hatred Against Roma
HRP
23/07/2004

GREECE - Anti-Semitism in Greece: Embedded in Society - An Interview with Moses Altsech (JCPA, 11-7-2004)
JCPA
23/07/2004

TURKEY - 692 People Tortured in The First Half of 2004
Bianet
22/07/2004

SERBIA - Serbia's Changing Political Landscape - New ICG briefing
ICG
22/07/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 13-20 July 2004
ANEM/IFEX
22/07/2004

GREECE - Athens Mosque will not be ready for Olympics (D. Howden, 21-7-04)
Reuters
21/07/2004

CROATIA - SEEMO concerned over court's decision to give journalist suspended jail sentence
IFEX
20/07/2004

SERBIA - Serbia: Sexual harassment of female customs officer
HLC
20/07/2004

SERBIA - Serbia: Discrimination against Roma woman
HLC
20/07/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Brief - 26 (109)/2004
Divers
20/07/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Media organisations call on government to adopt measures that would facilitate operation of the Republic Broadcast Agency Council
ANEM/IFEX
20/07/2004

CROATIA - Journalist given two-month suspended jail sentence
RSF/IFEX
15/07/2004

BULGARIA - Nachova and Others v. Bulgaria Accepted for Referral to the Grand Chamber
ECHR
15/07/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 6-13 July 2004
IFEX/ANEM
14/07/2004

SERBIA - Minorities-Related Incidents in Serbia
HRS
14/07/2004

ALBANIA - Extremely tense situation in the pre-detention sites
AHC
14/07/2004

ALBANIA - On the round table "Raising Awareness on the Minority Rights and their Observance"
AHC
14/07/2004

CYPRUS - Turkish Cypriot teenager murdered in Greek Cypriot south of divided island
AFP
14/07/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Freedom of expression organisations sign on to letter on Iran expressing continued concern over impunity in case of photojournalist Zahra Kazemi
IFEX
13/07/2004

CROATIA - OSCE Mission concerned over prison sentence for libel, calls for reform of Croatian libel legislation
OSCE
13/07/2004

GREECE - Amnesty Interntaional on Greece: Olympic Games must not lead to a trade off of security for human rights
AI
12/07/2004

ALBANIA - A serious case of death in detention that seeks a rapid and objective investigation
AHC
12/07/2004

ALBANIA - Albanian State Police responsible again for the death of a citizen
AHRG
12/07/2004

GREECE - "My First Visit To My Birthplace, The Village Neret Near Lerin In Aegean Macedonia"
Pollitecon Publications
12/07/2004

MACEDONIA - Macedonian Helsinki Committee - Referendums of citizens should be respected
MILS
12/07/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs - 25 (108)/2004
Divers
12/07/2004

MACEDONIA - Human rights watchdog warns that Macedonia might 'lose independence.'
RFE/RL
12/07/2004

BOSNIA - EU Foreign Ministers Today: New EU force in Bosnia-Herzegovina
AI
12/07/2004

KOSOVO - Kosova's parliament set to challenge un's authority
RFE/RL
09/07/2004

GREECE - Racial Profiling of Muslim Migrants by Hellenic Police
GHM
09/07/2004

KOSOVO - Failure to protect the rights of minorities
AI
08/07/2004

GREECE/SLOVENIA - Far Right's results in European Parliament Elections (including Greece and Slovenia)
E-NEWS
07/07/2004

TURKEY - OMCT launches its publication "Violence Against Women: 10 Reports/Year 2003" (including Turkey)
OMCT
07/07/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs - 24 (107)/2004
Divers
05/07/2004

SLOVENIA - Articles in Eurolang (including on Slovenia)
EBLUL
05/07/2004

GREECE - ECHR considers admissible the appeal of Macedonian party against Greece (in French)
ECHR
04/07/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Council of Europe: Require protection of trafficked persons' rights
AI
02/07/2004

BOSNIA - Changing Bosnia's Security Arrangements - New ICG briefing
EUFOR-IA
02/07/2004

MONTENEGRO - Policemen convicted for abuse in Montenegro
HLC
02/07/2004

GREECE - Grand Chamber Hearing - Makaratzis v. Greece
ECHR
30/06/2004

MACEDONIA - Helsinki Committee - There is still police torture in Macedonia
MILS
29/06/2004

SERBIA/KOSOVO - HLC demands protection for Svetlana Djordjevic who wrote about treatment of Kosovo Albanians at the hand of Serbian police
HLC
29/06/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 22-29 June 2004
ANEM/IFEX
29/06/2004

TURKEY - Human Rights Watch says headscarf ban stifles academic freedom
HRW/IFEX
29/06/2004

GREECE - Greece's Archbishop Congratulates and Praises Extreme Right Leader who Repeats that "Jewish-Zionists Dominate US Media"
GHM
27/06/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Freedom of expression organisations condemn media freedom and freedom of expression violations in eight African countries
IFEX/GHM
25/06/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Freedom of expression organisations call on African governments to implement a number of legal reforms and end the criminalisation of expression
IFEX/GHM
25/06/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Freedom of expression organisations call on Azeri president to dismiss criminal libel case against journalist Irada Huseynova and cancel the warrant for her arrest
IFEX/GHM
25/06/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Freedom of expression organisations voice concern over harassment of Bobomurod Abdullayev in Uzbekistan
IFEX/GHM
25/06/2004

GREECE - Greece's Top Minister and Public Opinion Accept or Approve of Nationalist, Xenophobic and Anti-Semitic's Party Sucess!
GHM
25/06/2004

BULGARIA - Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee publishes two reports on Bulgaria
CoE
24/06/2004

INTERNATIONAL - UN Secretary-General: Anti-semitism unique manifestation of hatred, intolerance, persecution
UN
24/06/2004

CYPRUS - ECHR Convicts Cyprus for Violation of Free Elections and Discrimination against a Turkish-Cypriot
ECHR
22/06/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 15-22 June 2004
ANEM/IFEX
22/06/2004

TURKEY - Council of Europe parliamentarians vote to end monitoring of Turkey
CoE
22/06/2004

GREECE - Fears of Athens sex slave boom
BBC
21/06/2004

INTERNATIONAL - ERRC Collective Complaint against Italy: Systematic Violations of Right to Adequate Housing
ERRC
21/06/2004

EUROPE - U.N. to Hold Anti-Semitism Seminar on Monday
A.P.
19/06/2004

GREECE - Ahern's and Sharon's Fellow-Traveler in Greece Wonders Why Jews Sweep Noble Prizes and Chess Championships!
GHM
19/06/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Romani Holocaust Memorial In Australia
Roma Network
18/06/2004

GREECE - "Zorba est mort : lettres a un ami grec" (New French book on Greek anti-Semitism and anti-Westernism)
Patrick Demerin
18/06/2004

GREECE - Greek Courts Set Free Traffickers of Minor!
GHM
18/06/2004

GREECE - 14 Greek NGO's Appeal to Minister of Justice for Legal Aid to Trafficking Victims and Sanctions Against Court Officers Responsible for Irregularities (02/06/2004) [in greek]
GHM
18/06/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 8-15 June 2004
ANEM/IFEX
17/06/2004

GREECE - Newly Elected Romni MEP Livia Jaroka: "Gypsy shanty towns in Greece even worse than in Hungary"
Reuters
16/06/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Latest news from the Council of Europe Secretariat of the Framewo rk Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
CoE
16/06/2004

KOSOVO - Kosovo Roundtable Final Report
CDRSEE
15/06/2004

MACEDONIA - Helsinki Committee - Police in Macedonia works without control
MILS
15/06/2004

MACEDONIA/KOSOVO - 500 refugees from Kosovo got asylum in Macedonia
MILS
15/06/2004

GREECE - At last, justice for trafficking victims in Greece [K. Tzilivakis, Athens News, 11-6-04]
Athens News
15/06/2004

TURKEY - EU Bid Hinges on Further Rights Reforms
HRW
15/06/2004

GREECE - State Department 2004 Report on Trafficking in Persons in Greece
Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
14/06/2004

GREECE - Greek far right stages European comeback after 20 years
AFP
14/06/2004

TURKEY - Writers in Prison Committee calls for journalist's release
WiPC/IFEX
14/06/2004

GREECE - Wiesenthal Centre to Greek Prime Minister: "Expel Minister for Education and Religions from Your Government for Publicly Celebrated Election to European Parliament of Racist Party Leader"
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE
14/06/2004

GREECE - Letter to Greek Minister of Education and Ambassadors of Ireland, Italy and Portugal for Unacceptable Legitimization of Greek Xenophobic and Anti-Semitic Party [in greek]
GHM
14/06/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs - 21 (104)/2004
Divers
14/06/2004

GREECE - EU President Bertie Ahern and Other Governing Parties Confirm "Unreserved Support" and Praise Greek Anti-Semitic Party Despite NGO Appeals to Dissociate Themselves!
GHM
12/06/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM calls for urgent introduction of broadcasting and access to information legislation in Serbia
ANEM/IFEX
11/06/2004

GREECE - Police enter premises of private radio station, seize equipment, arrest and charge owner
IPI/IFEX
11/06/2004

SERBIA - Inadequate response of police and prosecutors to burning of mosques in Serbia
HLC
11/06/2004

GREECE - Wiesenthal Centre to Irish Prime Minister: "Expel Greek Racist Party from Your European Parliamentary Group"
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE
10/06/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 1-8 June 2004
ANEM/IFEX
10/06/2004

KOSOVO - Five Years of Ethnic Cleansing of "Gypsies" from Kosovo
ERRC
10/06/2004

TURKEY - Peter Schieder welcomes release in Turkey of former parliamentari ans Leyla Zana, Selim Sadak, Hatip Dicle and Orhan Dogan
CoE
10/06/2004

TURKEY - Released prisoners of conscience should face no further trial
AI
09/06/2004

TURKEY - Mass arrests of pro-Kurdish journalists ahead of NATO summit
RSF/IFEX
09/06/2004

TURKEY - Grand Chamber Heraing: Ocalan v. Turkey
ECHR
09/06/2004

TURKEY - Languages Other than Turkish on TV and Radio
Bianet
08/06/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ARTICLE 19 highlights necessary amendments to draft Law on Free Access to Information
ARTICLE 19/IFEX
08/06/2004

EUROPE - The "Bolzano/Bozen Declaration on the Protection of Minorities in the Enlarged European Union"
EURAC
08/06/2004

MACEDONIA/GREECE - Offensive in Council of Europe for Acknowledgement of Constitutional Name and Macedonian National Identity
MILS
08/06/2004

GREECE - Council of Europe reports on racism in the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece and Hungary
CoE
08/06/2004

GREECE - Greek Anti-Semitic Party Allied with Sharon, Ahern and other European Government Parties! [in greek]
GHM
07/06/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs - 20 (103)/2004
Divers
07/06/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - World press groups protest against murder in Montenegro
WAN/IFEX
04/06/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - IPI condemns edit or-in-chief's assassination
IPI/IFEX
04/06/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 25 May - 1 June 2004 (1)
ANEM/IFEX
04/06/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 25 May - 1 June 2004 (2)
ANEM/IFEX
04/06/2004

BULGARIA - Roma Public Officials in Bulgaria Criticize the Policy of the Government in Open Letter to the Prime Minister
HRP
04/06/2004

TURKEY - Law reforms regarding human rights and press freedom can set example for muslim world, says WAN president
WAN/IFEX
04/06/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Newspaper editor murdered
RSF/IFEX
03/06/2004

CROATIA - OSCE Mission report encourages strengthening of human rights protection in Croatia
OSCE
02/06/2004

EUROPE - Council of Europe: Drafting a European Convention against Trafficking
AI
02/06/2004

TURKEY - Interim Resolution in freedom of expression cases concerning Turkey
CoE
02/06/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO/KOSOVO - IFJ says report lets politicians "off the hook" by blaming media for violence
IFEX
02/06/2004

TURKEY - Violence originating in the family
AI
02/06/2004

ALBANIA - On the research of Albanian Helsinki Committee about the free and the appointed bar service in criminal cases
AHC
02/06/2004

ALBANIA - Newspaper editor fined in defamation case
ARTICLE 19/IFEX
02/06/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - CPJ urges authorities to aggressively investigate editor's murder
CPJ/IFEX
01/06/2004

GREECE - GHM Activity Report for 2003
GHM
01/06/2004

EUROPE - EU experts recommend directive on Roma integration
ERRC
01/06/2004

KOSOVO - On the trail of a report by the temporary media commissioner in Kosovo: Abuse of cinema verite in tv journalism
MEDIA ONLINE
01/06/2004

GREECE - Greek Courts Postpone Trial, Drop Charges Due to Statutory Limitation, Refer Case to Court of Non-Competent Jurisdiction and Maintain Restrictions against Gina M., an Underage Victim of Trafficking and Forced Prostitution (18/05/2004) [in greek]
GHM
31/05/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs - 19 (102)/2004
Divers
31/05/2004

GREECE - Far-right group tries to bust up Greece's Macedonian minority party meeting
AP
30/05/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM protests murder of director and editor-in-chief of daily
ANEM/IFEX
28/05/2004

BALKANS - Amnesty International Annual Report on Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Turkey
AI
28/05/2004

BALKANS - Amnesty International Annual Report on Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece
AI
28/05/2004

TURKEY/GREECE - ECHR June 2004 Hearings on Ocalan v. Turkey and Makaratzis v. Greece
CoE
28/05/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Two Japanese journalists killed in grenade attack near Baghdad; editor-in-chief of Podgorica-based daily "Dan" assassinated in Montenegro
IFJ/IFEX
28/05/2004

GREECE - Greek Minister of Interior Urged to Have Disciplinary Sanctions Imposed on Thessaloniki Prefect for Intolerant Statement on Minority Party "Rainbow" [in greek]
GHM
28/05/2004

MONTENEGRO - Editor shot dead in Montenegro
BBC
28/05/2004

TURKEY - Gays & Lesbians Urge for Equality Before Law - Radio Anchor Detained for Quoting Ocalan
Bianet
28/05/2004

MACEDONIA/GREECE - Ghosts of dead migrants haunt former Macedonian interior minister
RFE/RL
28/05/2004

CROATIA - Implement recommendations to prevent torture
AI
28/05/2004

GREECE - ECHR Convicts Greece for Violation of Freedom of Expression in the Rizos and Daskas v. Greece Case
ECHR
27/05/2004

BOSNIA - Appointment of new international member to Bosnia and Herzegovina constitutional court
CoE
27/05/2004

GREECE/ALBANIA - Olympics may spur child trafficking to Greece
Reuters
27/05/2004

SERBIA - Ethnically motivated violence against Roma and Albanian children is mounting
HLC
26/05/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 18-25 May 2004
ANEM/IFEX
26/05/2004

TURKEY - Journalist sentenced to 15 months in prison; newspaper given heavy fine
RSF/IFEX
26/05/2004

GREECE - As Olympics near, Greek journalist accuses Jews of muzzling free speech [J. Cohen, JTA 24-5-04]
JTA
25/05/2004

GREECE - New books on Macedonians and web site for Pollitecon Publications
Victor Bivell
25/05/2004

ALBANIA - Need of more tolerance on the part of the politicians (after Nano's penal action against Koha Jone)
AHC
25/05/2004

MONTENEGRO - On the broadcasting strategy: Frequency allocation announced a media tempest in Montenegro
Media Online
25/05/2004

GREECE - Greece Sentences Macedonian Priest to Three Month Prison Term
MHRMC
25/05/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs - 18 (101)/2004
Divers
24/05/2004

MACEDONIA/GREECE - Macedonia apologized to Pakistan for the case "Rastanski Lozja"
MILS
24/05/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Helsinki Commission Leaders Spearhead Initiative to Combat Anti-Semitism
CSCE
21/05/2004

GREECE - Wiesenthal Centre to International Olympic Committee: "Greece Greatest Net Producer of Antisemitism; Travel Advisory Remains in Place."
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE
21/05/2004

GREECE - Religious freedom, the Achilles' heel
FORUM 18
21/05/2004

SERBIA - Politika Daily uses hate speech in reporting on Eurosong contest
BG Pride
21/05/2004

GREECE - UN Critical of Greece's Roma Rights Record
ERRC
21/05/2004

GREECE - Thessaloniki: Flooded by (Jewish) history (S. Dicker, Jerusalem Post, 20-5-04)
Jerusalem Post
20/05/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM protests political interference in local television station's activities
ANEM/IFEX
20/05/2004

BOSNIA/SERBIA - Bosnian Serb Helsinki Committee says Srebrenica investigation stalled
RFE/RL
20/05/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Latest news from the Council of Europe Secretariat of the Framewo rk Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
CoE
19/05/2004

TURKEY - Inquiry Against Kurdish "Thank You"
Bianet
19/05/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Resolutions passed at IPI Annual General Assembly
IPI/IFEX
18/05/2004

GREECE - ECRI reported to ask Greece for "Acknowledgement of Macedonian minority in Greece"
MILS
18/05/2004

TURKEY - Saturday Mothers Demand Justice
Bianet
18/05/2004

ALBANIA - AHC final report of the commissariats in Albania
AHC
18/05/2004

MACEDONIA - The media and presidential elections
Media Online
18/05/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs- 17 (100)/2004
Divers
17/05/2004

TURKEY - Teacher Sent on Exile Because of Kurdish Poem
Bianet
17/05/2004

GREECE - UN CESCR Issues Conclusions on Reports of Lithuania, Greece, Kuwait, Spain and Ecuador
UNHCHR
14/05/2004

CROATIA - UN CAT Issues Conclusions and Recommendations on Report of Croatia
UNHCHR
14/05/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 10-14 May 2004
ANEM/IFEX
14/05/2004

ALBANIA - Electronic Newsletter of the Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania - CRCA #226
CRCA
14/05/2004

EUROPE - ECMI FCNM Parallel Reports Database now online
ECMI
14/05/2004

GREECE - International CO Day - Greece misses another opportunity to celebrate
AI
14/05/2004

EUROPE - New in Minority Rights Information System (MIRIS) on Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia
MIRIS
14/05/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - SEEMO condemns mistreatment of journalist by Serbian Orthodox Church
IPI/IFEX
13/05/2004

ALBANIA - Protocol reforming the European Court of Human Rights open for signature by member states
AHC
13/05/2004

EUROPE - Protocol reforming the European Court of Human Rights open for signature by member states
CoE
13/05/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 30 April - 7 May 2004
ANEM /IFEX
11/05/2004

SERBIA - HLC letter to Serbian bar association
HLC
11/05/2004

GREECE - MHRMC Condemns US State Department's Continued Misrepresentation of the Macedonian Minority in Greece
MHRMC
11/05/2004

TURKEY - The Turkish Parliament and the Council of Europe discuss setting up an Ombudsman in Turkey
CoE
10/05/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs - 16 (99)/2004
Divers
10/05/2004

MACEDONIA - Macedonian Helsinki Committee - Election of Crvenkovski as president is illegitimate
MILS
10/05/2004

MACEDONIA/CROATIA/GREECE - Ljube Boshkovski in Croatia - Macedonian authorities will request extradition
MILS
10/05/2004

ALBANIA/BULGARIA/GREECE - Macedonian Delegation at the 60th Session of the UN Commis sion on Human Rights in Geneva, 15 March - 23 April 2004
MHRMC
10/05/2004

SERBIA/KOSOVO - IHF Open Letter to Serbian Prime Minister Kostunica: re. the appointment of Mr. Papovic as Rector of the University of Mitrovica (Kosovo)
IHF
08/05/2004

BULGARIA - Radio France Internationale Presented Two Reports About the Macedonians in Bulgaria
MHRMC
08/05/2004

CYPRUS - Offices of Turkish-Cypriot newspaper targeted in bomb attack
RSF/IFEX
07/05/2004

GREECE/CYPRUS - Greek State TV Censorship at the Request of Prime Minister's Office Amidst Generalized Accomplice Silence [in greek]
GHM
06/05/2004

KOSOVO - Nobody charged for destruction of Orthodox churches and monasteries
FORUM 18
06/05/2004

GREECE - Meanwhile The Jewish ghosts of Salonika (A. Goldman, 6-5-04)
IHT
06/05/2004

ROMANIA/SLOVENIA - Articles in Eurolang on Minorities in New EU Member States (inclduing Slovenia) and Romania
EBLUL
06/05/2004

BULGARIA - Libya: Quash death sentences against Bulgarian and Palestinian medical professionals
AI
06/05/2004

ROMANIA - Romanian government fails to acknowledge human tragedy
AI
06/05/2004

MACEDONIA/GREECE - Ljube Boshkovski: Immunity lifted - search continues - case not "a revenge"
MILS
06/05/2004

BULGARIA/ROMANIA - Segregated Schooling of Roma in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia
ERRC
06/05/2004

KOSOVO - Trafficked women and girls have human rights
AI
06/05/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Open Letter to Svetozar Marovic, President of Serbia-Montenegro and Vojislav Kostunica, Prime Minister of Serbia on NGO harassment
Observatory
05/05/2004

MACEDONIA/GREECE - Unlawful killings must be investigated
AI
05/05/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - B92 reporter attacked
ANEM/IFEX
04/05/2004

INTERNATIONAL - UN Secretary General's message on World Press Freedom Day
PINA/IFEX
04/05/2004

ALBANIA - Albanian University still on the threshold of intolerance
AHRG
04/05/2004

CYPRUS - Official Statement of AEGEE-Europe on the Situation in Cyprus
AEGEE
04/05/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Romany tent church demolition averted?
FORUM 18
04/05/2004

GREECE/CYPRUS - Greek State TV "Honors" World Press Freedom Day by Censoring Award Winning Documentary [in greek]
GHM
04/05/2004

MACEDONIA - AJM - "Journalists in Macedonia are not free"
MILS
04/05/2004

MACEDONIA/GREECE - Macedonian court issued warrant for detention of Boshkovski in Pakistanis fair
MILS
04/05/2004

INTERNATIONAL - IFJ calls for investigation into journalist killings in Iraq, stresses need for safety, solidarity, in World Press Freedom Day address
IFJ/IFEX
03/05/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Press freedom: Deliberately targeted for doing their jobs
AI
03/05/2004

MACEDONIA/GREECE - Walter Shwimer apologized for controversial Council of Europe document on Macedonia's name
MILS
03/05/2004

MACEDONIA/GREECE - Pakistan to request indemnity from Macedonia for migrants killed as "terrorists"
MILS
03/05/2004

MACEDONIA/GREECE - Former minister Ljube Boshkovski and another 6 persons suspects for murder of Pakistani migrants in "Staged anti-terrorist" operation
MILS
30/04/2004

ROMANIA - Freedom of Expression Week (April 28 - May 3, 2004)
MMA/CIJ/APPLE
30/04/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM denounces media campaign against Radio-Television B92
ANEM/IFEX
30/04/2004

ROMANIA - RSF issues report on press freedom in Romania
RSF/IFEX
30/04/2004

GREECE - UN CESCR Considers Initial Report on Greece
UNHCHR
29/04/2004

TURKEY - Curbs on Assembly Undermine EU Bid
HRW
28/04/2004

BALKANS - Freedom House's Nations in Transit survey tracks progress in areas of independent media, etc.
Freedom House/IFEX
28/04/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 16-19 April 2004
ANEM/IFEX
28/04/2004

SERBIA - How papers in Serbia reported on a certain event: Berets in 100 ways
Media Online
28/04/2004

MACEDONIA - Not all are equal before the law in the Republic of Macedonia
Macedonian Helsinki Committee
28/04/2004

MACEDONIA - Helsinki Committee - Truth and justice have been punished together with journalist Mende Petkovski
MILS
26/04/2004

GREECE - NGOs Highlight Concerns in Lithuania, Greece, Spain, Ecuador, Kuwait
UN CESCR
26/04/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Brief - 15 (98)/2004
DIVERS
26/04/2004

SERBIA - Reinstatement of human rights abusers
HLC
26/04/2004

GREECE - UN CESCR and UN CAT Review Greece's Record on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Fight against Torture
GHM
24/04/2004

CYPRUS - Chaos in Cyprus
CAN
24/04/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM condemns attack on newspaper owner
ANEM/IFEX
24/04/2004

EUROPE - New Report on Antisemitism in Europe
OSCE
24/04/2004

SLOVENIA - Making political hay with the 'erased' in Slovenia
RFE/RL
23/04/2004

BOSNIA - Leader of Bosnia's islamic community speaks out
RFE/RL
23/04/2004

GREECE - US Rep. B. Cardin Responds To European Anti-Semitism (and talks about Greece and about Roma in Europe)
The Baltimore Jewish Times
23/04/2004

GREECE - Book review: Diaspora: Homelands in Exile (about Salonika Jews)
Frederic Brenner
23/04/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Owner of Belgrade dailies attacked and threatened
IPI/IFEX
22/04/2004

KOSOVO - Collapse in Kosovo - New ICG report
ICG
22/04/2004

SERBIA - Serbian Helsinki Committee's Annual Report: Serbia without commitment to fundamental values of democracy
Serbian Helsinki Committee
22/04/2004

KOSOVO - OSCE free media representative calls Kosovo press "reckless" in reporting March violence
OSCE
22/04/2004

TURKEY - The FIDH expresses dismay at the conviction of Leyla Zana and three former Kurdish deputies
FIDH
22/04/2004

INTERNATIONAL - UN Commission on Human Rights: Sexual rights are human rights
AI
22/04/2004

TURKEY - Sadak, Zana, Dicle and Dogan should be released pending outcome of appeals, says Chair of Committee of Ministers
CoE
22/04/2004

TURKEY - Peter Schieder deplores Ankara state security court decision on Leyla Zana and three other former parliamentarians
CoE
22/04/2004

TURKEY - Injustice continues despite welcome reforms
AI
21/04/2004

EUROPE - Latest news from the Council of Europe Secretariat of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
CoE
21/04/2004

CYPRUS - Open letter from Walter Schwimmer, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, on Cyprus
CoE
21/04/2004

BULGARIA - ERRC files a police brutality case against Bulgaria with the Strasbourg human rights court
ERRC
21/04/2004

GREECE - One of Greece's Holocaust Survivor Hasn't Forgotten
Monterey Herald
21/04/2004

GREECE - Easter Pogrom Hatemongering - Effigies, Desecration, Caricature: Greek Antisemitism Epidemic Persists
Wiesenthal Center
21/04/2004

EUROPE - Ayoon wa Azan (Anti-Semitism Fashion): An Arab on Europe's Antisemitism
Al-Hayat
21/04/2004

GREECE - The Violinist of Auschwitz: Playing for Survival
Batsheva Pomerantz
21/04/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minority Briefs No 14 (97)/2004
DIVERS
19/04/2004

MACEDONIA - Macedonian Helsinki Committee - Free and fair elections
MILS
19/04/2004

ALBANIA/BOSNIA/BULGARIA/CROATIA - IHF Annual Report Country Chapters on Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia available electronically
IHF
17/04/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Powell Urged to Attend Berlin Conference on Anti-Semitism
CSCE
16/04/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 8-12 April 2004
ANEM/IFEX
16/04/2004

ROMANIA - IPI joins celebration of 175 years of newspapers
IPI/IFEX
16/04/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - RSF calls for justice on fifth anniversary of journalist Slavko Curuvija's murder
RSF/IFEX
16/04/2004

MACEDONIA - New Project on Ethnic Relations (PER) Report on Macedonia
MINELRES
16/04/2004

ALBANIA - Violence and inhuman treatment are punishable
AHC
15/04/2004

GREECE - Documenting Salonika's Jewish Holocaust Victims [Jerusalem Post, 12/4/04]
Jerusalem Post
15/04/2004

KOSOVO/MONTENEGRO - Housing for displaced Kosovo Roma in Montenegro
HLC
15/04/2004

TURKEY - Case TUR 150404 - serious risks to the personal integrity of torture victim Mr Selahattin �ge and of Mr Sidik �zen
OMCT
15/04/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 29 March - 2 April 2004
ANEM/IFEX
15/04/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 13 March - 3 April 2004
ANEM/IFEX
15/04/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Holocaust Remembrance Day: Council of Europe seminar in Budapest
CoE
14/04/2004

MACEDONIA - Macedonian Journalist Bozinvoski released
CSRC
14/04/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs no. 13 (96)
Divers
13/04/2004

MONTENEGRO - Games with the public service in Montenegro
Media Online
13/04/2004

MACEDONIA - A Journalist in detention in Macedonia after an institutional set up!
CSRC
12/04/2004

GREECE - Muslims living in Greece come under intelligence spotlight ahead of Olympics (I. Athanasiadis, Daily Star in IHT, 7-4-04)
I. Athanasiadis
12/04/2004

CROATIA - New on MINELRES minority related national legislation database (on Croatia etc.)
MINELRES
12/04/2004

MACEDONIA - A Journalist in detention in Macedonia after an institutional set up!
CSRC
11/04/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM concerned about appointment of new Radio Television Serbia administrative board
ANEM/IFEX
09/04/2004

GREECE - International Roma Day: "Uprooted" - Award Winning Documentary On Evicted Athens Olympic Stadium Roma- Now Available On Line
GHM
08/04/2004

ROMANIA - Newsletter -ERIO (concerns Romania)
ERIO
08/04/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Council of Europe Secretary General welcomes ECRI consultation initiative on the fight against anti-Semitism
CoE
08/04/2004

GREECE - OMCT appeal: Update on the case of Olga B., a trafficking and rape victim (GRC 020703.3.VAW)
OMCT
08/04/2004

MACEDONIA/GREECE - Macedonians protest Council of Europe decision on their country's name
RFE/RL
08/04/2004

EUROPE - Roma Day 2004 Call for Social Inclusion of Roma in Europe
ERRC
08/04/2004

BOSNIA - OSCE Mission produced documentary on Roma community to premiere in Sarajevo
OSCE
08/04/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - New strategy in Serbia and Montenegro aims at integrating, empowering Roma
OSCE
07/04/2004

SERBIA - Creeping Restoration in Serbia
Serbian Helsinki Committee
07/04/2004

SERBIA - Article 70 of law on judges found unconstitutional
HLC
06/04/2004

ALBANIA - Albania failed to take concrete steps to further amend the Electoral Code and the electoral infrastructure
AHC
05/04/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - B92 demands investigation of bomb incident
ANEM/IFEX
05/04/2004

KOSOVO - A wake-up call in Kosova
RFE/RL
05/04/2004

GREECE - Greek Prime Minister Urged to Denounce Anti-Semitism
ADL
05/04/2004

SLOVENIA - Slovenes reject renewed residency rights for former minorities
RFE/RL
05/04/2004

GREECE - Greek Media's Anti-semitic Onslaught Continues Unabated & Travel Advisory To Stay
Wiesenthal Center
05/04/2004

CYPRUS - Common poem of 15 Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot poets: "Yes: What a Joyful Word"
Bianet
05/04/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs no. 12 (95)
OMCT
05/04/2004

TURKEY - Beatings and arrests in relation with local elections (Case TUR 050404)
OMCT
05/04/2004

SERBIA - Media in Serbia following shift in government: New national awakening
Media Online
03/04/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Commentary on the Military Judiciary in Serbia and Montenegro
Serbian Helsinki Committee
02/04/2004

ROMANIA - Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee (CPT) publishes two reports on Romania
CPT
02/04/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ARTICLE 19 analyses Montenegro's draft law on Free Access to Information
ARTICLE 19/IFEX
02/04/2004

SERBIA - The Rights of Hague Indictees Act is Part of a Campaign of Returning Serbia to the Past
HLC
01/04/2004

TURKEY - CJFE concerned over recent police attack on journalists
CJFE/IFEX
31/03/2004

SERBIA - Roma racial discrimination action in Serbia
MRCERRC/HLC
31/03/2004

KOSOVO - Ethnic Cleansing of "Gypsies" in Kosovo
ERRC
31/03/2004

BALKANS - Disclosing Hidden History: Lustration* in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro)
CDRSEE
31/03/2004

TURKEY - Police assault nine journalists in Diyarbakir
RSF/IFEX
30/03/2004

SERBIA - "Disciplining Serbia"
Serbian Helsinki Committee
30/03/2004

SERBIA - Book 'Military Secret' Confiscated - Investigation against Sonja Biserko and the Committee announced
Serbian Helsinki Committee
30/03/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs no. 11 (94)
Divers
29/03/2004

ALBANIA - Violent rallies or protests are anticonstitutional
AHC
29/03/2004

KOSOVO - The Roma - Kosovo's forgotten victims
MRG
29/03/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Bomb placed beneath vehicle belonging to Radio-Television B92
ANEM/IFEX
29/03/2004

ALBANIA - Minority members experience the discrimination of police and Albanian judiciary
AHRG
29/03/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - SEEMO condemns placement of explosive device under B92 vehicle
IPI/IFEX
29/03/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - RSF outraged after bomb found under B92 vehicle
RSF/IFEX
29/03/2004

KOSOVO/SERBIA - Impunity for Ethnic Violence in Kosovo and Serbia Must End
IHF
29/03/2004

CYPRUS - The Celebration of World Theater Day Was Attacked by "Gray-Wolves"
Cyprus-Alternative News
27/03/2004

GREECE - MHRMC 2004 Annual Report - The Macedonian Minority in Greece
MHRMC
27/03/2004

SERBIA - Belgrade HC Office Raided by Military Police
IHF
27/03/2004

SERBIA - Serbia's U-Turn - New ICG report
ICG
26/03/2004

KOSOVO/SERBIA - Destruction worse than initially believed, and violence sparks incidents in Montenegro, Bosnia and Macedonia
FORUM 18
26/03/2004

BOSNIA/KOSOVO/SERBIA - Helsinki Leaders Urge Tough U.S. Stance on Indicted War Criminals
CSCE
26/03/2004

SERBIA - Denmark Expels Romani Woman to Serbia - Leads Europe in Brutal Treatment of Migrants and Refugees
ERRC
25/03/2004

KOSOVO - New ECMI Brief: Violence in Kosovo and the Way Ahead
ECMI
25/03/2004

ALBANIA - Opposition protests in Albania: Police creates climate of insecurity
AHRG
25/03/2004

CYPRUS - Settlers, Refugees, and Immigrants: Alternative Futures for Post-Settlement Cyprus
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
25/03/2004

GREECE/MACEDONIA - Open Letter to COE Secretary General, Walter Schwimmer, on COE Use of the Name of Macedonia
IHF/HCHRRM/GHM
25/03/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Call for papers on: Rights of minorities: The case of the Roma - Human rights and religion
EHRR
24/03/2004

KOSOVO - Ethnic Violence and Killing of Policemen in Kosovo Strongly Condemned
Kosovo Helsinki Monitor
24/03/2004

MACEDONIA - Helsinki Committee - Framework agreement does not have legal power
MILS
24/03/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 14-21 March 2004
ANEM/IFEX
24/03/2004

BOSNIA/KOSOVO/MACEDONIA - New ECMI Working Paper: Institutionalizing Ethnicity in the Western Balkans
ECMI
23/03/2004

GREECE - Promise of Mosque Unfulfilled in Athens
LA Times
23/03/2004

GREECE - Muslims Face Increased Olympic Scrutiny in Greece
AP
23/03/2004

GREECE - Sad Thoughts on the Occasion of the International Day Against Racism in Greece (21/03/2004) [in greek]
GHM
23/03/2004

GREECE - Another Romani Shed Burned Down! The Tragedy of the Aspropyrgos Roma Representative
GHM
23/03/2004

BULGARIA - Helsinki Committee gives Bulgaria mixed reviews on human rights
RFE/RL
22/03/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 6-12 March 2004
ANEM/IFEX
22/03/2004

ROMANIA - RSF sends delegation to report on threats to press freedom and journalists' safety
RSF/IFEX
22/03/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minority Briefs no. 10 (93)
Divers
22/03/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM concerned over appointment of Radio Television Serbia director
ANEM/IFEX
22/03/2004

SERBIA - ERRC/HLC/MRC Action Against Hate Speech in Serbia
ERRC
22/03/2004

TURKEY - Honouring of obligations and commitments by Turkey
PACE
22/03/2004

MACEDONIA/GREECE - Reactions to the Controversial Council of Europe Document on Macedonia's Name
MILS
22/03/2004

SERBIA/KOSOVO - Serbia's Minister of the Interior Should Resign
Youth Initiative
22/03/2004

MACEDONIA/GREECE - Contested document of Council of Europe on Macedonia's name is withdrawn
MILS
20/03/2004

ROMANIA - Anti-Semitism in Romania - 2003 MCA Report
MCA
20/03/2004

GREECE - SWC to New Greek Prime Minister: "Greek Antisemitism Justifies Continuation of Center�s Travel Advisory"
Simon Wiesenthal Center
20/03/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO/TURKEY - Minority Rights Group International - e-bulletin - March 2004 (on Serbia, Montenegro and Turkey)
MRGI
20/03/2004

ROMANIA - Freedom of the press in Romania - Report on 2003
FreeEx
20/03/2004

KOSOVO/SERBIA - Accountability for Ethnic Violence in Kosovo and Serbia
HLC
20/03/2004

SERBIA/KOSOVO - Prevent escalation of violence and take all legal measures against hooligans in Serbia
Youth Initiative
19/03/2004

KOSOVO/SERBIA - Churches & Mosques destroyed amid inter-ethnic violence
FORUM 18
19/03/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Fifty-three journalists killed in 2003, says WAN in annual report
WAN/IFEX
18/03/2004

KOSOVO/SERBIA - AI calls for restraint after attacks in Kosovo and reprisals in Serbia
AI
18/03/2004

EUROPE - ILGA-Europe March 2004 Newsletter published
ILGA-Europe
16/03/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Peter Schieder calls on member states to support UN Resolution on sexual orientation and human rights
CoE
16/03/2004

MACEDONIA/GREECE - Council of Europe Internal Instructions on the Use of the "M" word (Macedonia)
MILS
16/03/2004

BULGARIA - U.S. diplomat speaks out against ethnic Turkish party in Bulgaria
RFE/RL
15/03/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minority Brifes Nr. 9 (92)
Divers
15/03/2004

CYPRUS - Cross-voting Moderation for Cyprus
Neophytos Loizides and Eser Keskiner
14/03/2004

ROMANIA - ADL appalled by Israeli agreeing to run presidential campaign of Romanian anti-Semite
MCA Romania
12/03/2004

SERBIA/KOSOVO/MACEDONIA - Media in Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia
RFE/RL
12/03/2004

INTERNATIONAL - CPJ releases "Attacks on the Press in 2003"; annual survey documents changing press freedom landscape
CPJ/IFEX
12/03/2004

BULGARIA - European Human Rights Court: Bulgaria Degraded Romani Man on Death Row
ERRC
12/03/2004

GREECE - IPI 2003 World Press Freedom Review: Greece
SEEMO
11/03/2004

INTERNATIONAL - IPI World Press Freedom Review 2003 highlights sacrifices made by war reporters
IPI/IFEX
11/03/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 28 Feb - 5 Mar 2004
ANEM/IFEX
11/03/2004

MACEDONIA - Helsinki Committee - Lawyers and judges in Macedonia do not apply international law
MILS
11/03/2004

GREECE - Ahmet to Represent Turkish Minority in Greek Parliamen
ZAMAN
09/03/2004

CROATIA - Schroeder Should Stress EU Rights Requirements
HRW
09/03/2004

TURKEY - IHD - 77 Women were Killed by Relatives in 2003
Bianet
09/03/2004

BULGARIA - New on Media Online: Bulgaria faced with new radio and television law
Media Online
09/03/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Miklos Haraszti appointed OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
OSCE
09/03/2004

KOSOVO/GREECE - Kosovo Family's Battle Against Deportation from the UK to Greece
The Scotsman
08/03/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs Nr. 8 (91)
Divers
08/03/2004

GREECE - Greek Tragedy: The forgotten history of Israel's Ladino-speaking Jews is remembered on stage
The Jerusalem Post
07/03/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Refugee Law Reader is published on-line
Boyan Konstantinov
06/03/2004

EUROPE - ECRI States Hard Facts Lacking in Europe's Anti-Semitism Drive
Reuters
06/03/2004

GREECE - "Quality Publication" "Hellenic News of America" Announces Greek Election Results Two Days Ahead of Elections!
Hellenic News of America
06/03/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM calls on government to resolve problems facing media
ANEM/IFEX
04/03/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 21-27 Feb 2004
ANEM/IFEX
04/03/2004

TURKEY - The Arrest Warrant Against Editor Ozg�den
Bianet
04/03/2004

INTERNATIONAL - New web site of Human Rights Project on rights of children especially from vulnerable groups
HRP
04/03/2004

MACEDONIA/GREECE - Greece Only Balkan State not Represented by President in Macedonia's President Boris Trajkovski Funeral
MILS
04/03/2004

ALBANIA - OSCE mission report says situation for pre-trial detainees in Albania remains "problematic"
OSCE
03/03/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Serbia and Montenegro to ratify two key Council of Europe conventions : statement from the Chairman of the Committee of Ministers
CoE
03/03/2004

MONTENEGRO - Compensation action in favor of Roma against Montenegro
ERRC/BCMR/HLC
03/03/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - AI urges the honouring of human rights commitments
AI
03/03/2004

TURKEY - Rights Progress Marred in Key Year for EU Bid
HRW
03/03/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Latest news from the Council of Europe Secretariat of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
CoE
02/03/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Anti-Americanism, Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism - Is There a Common Thread? (Michel Friedman)
Aspen
02/03/2004

GREECE - Letter from Thessaloniki: The Passion [and anti-Semitism] lives on [S. Payatakis, Kathimerini, 1-3-04]
Kathimerini
01/03/2004

SERBIA/BOSNIA - (Bosnia's) Karadzic and Mladic in Serbia, says Kandic
B92
01/03/2004

EUROPE - Kokkalis Workshop on Southeastern Europe (Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia)
KSG
01/03/2004

CROATIA - OSCE Mission to Croatia report finds ethnic Serbs "disadvantaged" in war crime trials
OSCE
01/03/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs no 7 (90)
Divers
01/03/2004

ALBANIA - Albanian Helsinki Committee on the Selenica Mines Fatal Accident
AHC
01/03/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Edgar Morin's "Antisemitisme, antijudaisme, anti-israelisme" and a Jewish agency reaction [in French]
Edgar Morin
01/03/2004

SERBIA - Vojvodina parties look to international support for autonomy within Serbia
B92
28/02/2004

SLOVENIA - Signs of intolerance, or just legal wrangling in Slovenia?
RFE/RL
27/02/2004

GREECE - Request to Suspend Police Director of Achaia over Racist Circular Targeting Roma (20/2/2004) [in greek]
GHM
27/02/2004

MACEDONIA - Who attacked, armed with machine guns, an Orthodox monastery?
FORUM 18
27/02/2004

SLOVENIA - More needs to be done to ensure police accountability
AI
27/02/2004

GREECE - Greek Archbishop Christodoulos Critical of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of Christ"
MPA
26/02/2004

BULGARIA - Strasbourg Court Condemns Discrimination Against Roma in Bulgaria
ERRC
26/02/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - 11 years since abduction at Strpci
HLC
26/02/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 14-21 Feb 2004
ANEM/IFEX
26/02/2004

GREECE/ROMANIA - Report on the Activities of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs: "Combating Antisemitism" (Greece, Romania etc.)
New York Jewish Times
25/02/2004

ALBANIA/KOSOVO/MACEDONIA - Pan-Albanianism: How Big a Threat to Balkan Stability? - New ICG report
ICG
25/02/2004

TURKEY - Council of Europe's Committee for the prevention of torture report on visit to Ocalan in Turkish prison
CoE
25/02/2004

GREECE - Ruling on conscientious objector trial
AI
24/02/2004

SERBIA - Command Responsibility - The Contemporary Law
HLC
23/02/2004

SERBIA - Open Letter to Vojislav Kostunica on the Hague TRibunal
Youth Initiative
23/02/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs No. 6 (89)
Divers
23/02/2004

MACEDONIA - New on Media Online (on Macedonia)
Media Online
23/02/2004

GREECE - EUMC and Underreporting Anti-Semitism in Greece [in greek]
GHM
21/02/2004

GREECE - Critical Presentation of U.S. Congressional Praise of Greece's Attitude Towards Anti-Semitism
GHM
21/02/2004

MACEDONIA - Macedonian gays come out from shadows
IWPR
20/02/2004

MACEDONIA/GREECE/SERBIA - Greek church protests because Greek priests were not allowed to enter Macedonia - Serbian exarch Zoran Vraniskovski suspect for espionage
MILS
20/02/2004

MACEDONIA/ALBANIA - Macedonia's Albanian leader Arben Dxaferi denies existence of Macedonians in Albania
MILS
20/02/2004

GREECE - An answer to Jerusalem Post's "Tackling assimilation and anti-Semitism in Salonika"
Paul Isaac Hagouel
20/02/2004

BULGARIA - Legal Aid Reform and Access to Justice in Bulgaria and Central and Eastern Europe
Justice Initiatives
20/02/2004

ALBANIA - Inhuman and degrading conditions in police stations
AI
19/02/2004

BULGARIA - Media outlets receive threats
IPI/IFEX
19/02/2004

GREECE - Open Letter to Greek Prime Minister on Attack by Greek Pontics on Aspropyrgos Roma Settlement
OMCT/GHM
19/02/2004

EUROPE - Jewish leaders urge stronger European response to anti-Semitism
AP/AFP
19/02/2004

BULGARIA - Landmark discrimination lawsuit in Bulgaria
ERRC
18/02/2004

ALBANIA - Powers need to be respected - No violation to the principle of the presumption of innocence
AHC
18/02/2004

GREECE - A History of Failed Promises to Roma
OMCT
18/02/2004

ROMANIA - Romani CRISS News Letter No 33
Romani CRISS
18/02/2004

GREECE - Nobel Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel at Thessaloniki ceremony in remembrance of the Holocaust of the Greek Jews
Cultural Center of the Piraeus Bank
18/02/2004

SERBIA - New on Media Online on Serbia
Media Online
18/02/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 7-13 Feb 2004
ANEM/IFEX
17/02/2004

ALBANIA - Law Suit against Albania's Council of Ministers
AHRG
17/02/2004

SERBIA - Persons responsible for the crime in Kukurovici (Sanjak, Serbia) must be punished
Youth Initiative
17/02/2004

GREECE - Spata Roma Still 'Under the Weather:' Fourth Day in a Row with no Water, amidst General Municipal and Ministry Indifference! [in greek]
GHM
16/02/2004

TURKEY - Members of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey sentenced to prison
Observatoire
16/02/2004

ALBANIA - Open Letter of Seven NGOs to Parliament
AHC
16/02/2004

BOSNIA - ERRC Country Report: Roma Rights in Bosnia
ERRC
16/02/2004

MACEDONIA/ALBANIA - Humanitarian disaster of Macedonian refugees from Mala Prespa, Albania - local population does not allow building of shelter for refugees in Dracevo
MILS
16/02/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs No 5 (88)
Divers
16/02/2004

GREECE - Tackling assimilation and anti-Semitism in Salonika (portrait of Rabbi M. Frisis) [7-2-04]
Jerusalem Post
16/02/2004

GREECE - Speech of Greek MFA George Papandreou at event for the Memorial Day of the Greek Jews of the Holocaust
Athens Music Mansion
15/02/2004

GREECE - Plane-spotters forge deal on bail with Greek lawyers
BBC
14/02/2004

GREECE - Greece frees 'framed' protester from the UK
BBC
13/02/2004

SERBIA - Two Serbian parties agree to meet minorities' demands on electoral reform
RFE/RL
13/02/2004

GREECE - Beaten, starved and denied wages: Greeks rescue Roma victims of Britain's latest 'slave labour' scandal
The Independent
13/02/2004

GREECE - Greek Roma flower pickers were 'slaves' in the UK - Flower firm denies 'slave' claim
BBC
13/02/2004

SERBIA - How to Protect Witnesses Who Are Seen by Public and Police as Traitors - February 2004
HLC
13/02/2004

GREECE - Highly Irregular Greek Police Investigation into the Ill-Treatment of Romani Men by Police Officers
GHM
13/02/2004

SLOVENIA - Could a Ljubljana Mosque become a terrorist center?
RFE/RL
13/02/2004

GREECE - Greek Roma rescued from UK "slave labour"
Reuters
12/02/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Roma Rights 4/2003: Political Rights of Roma (concerns Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Turkey)
ERRC
12/02/2004

KOSOVO - Dispute over Islamic head scarves in Kosova
RFE/RL
12/02/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Alvaro Gil Robles: Enlargement will alter the human rights landscape in the EU - Reports on new member states
CoE
12/02/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Council of Europe reaffirms the fundamental right to freedom of expression and information (not covering racist and anti-Semitic speech)
CoE
12/02/2004

TURKEY - Rejecting old practices, abiding by new standards
AI
12/02/2004

BOSNIA - Helsinki Committee in Republika Srpska Chair Threatened
IHF
12/02/2004

CYPRUS - Secretary General Walter Schwimmer calls on the leaders o f the two communities to reunite Cyprus before EU accession
CoE
12/02/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM protests dismissal of Radio and Television Pirot editorial staff
ANEM/IFEX
11/02/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 25 Jan - 7 Feb 2004
ANEM/IFEX
11/02/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Resolution on Sexual Orientation Discrimination: European Parliament
EP
11/02/2004

GREECE - Ethnic Greek "Pontics" attack Apropyrgos Roma community [Kathimerini, 4-2-04]
Kathimerini
11/02/2004

TURKEY - Homosexuals Criticize "Statue Protest"
Bianet
11/02/2004

CROATIA - Anti-Serb feeling lingering in Croatia
B92 News
10/02/2004

ALBANIA - Minority Rights Group International - e-bulletin - February 2004 (concerns Albania)
MRGI
10/02/2004

MACEDONIA/SERBIA/BULGARIA - G.G. Stefan - Macedonian Orthodox Church is successor of Archdiocese of Ohrid
MILS
10/02/2004

CROATIA - OSCE Mission to Croatia clarifies position on HRT Law
OSCE
09/02/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities News 04/2004
Divers
09/02/2004

ALBANIA - Violent protests, a product of Albanian politics' incapability
AHRG
09/02/2004

ALBANIA - Gatherings are legitimate but with no use of violence
AHC
09/02/2004

SERBIA - Libel action filed against "international"
HLC
09/02/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in South East Europe (CDRSEE) Newsletter: 9 February 2004
CDRSEE
09/02/2004

CYPRUS - Turkish Cypriot elections - Human rights in Cyprus
CYPRUS ACTION NETWORK
09/02/2004

TURKEY - Human rights defenders still targeted
AI
09/02/2004

ALBANIA - Latest publications of the Albanian Helsinki Committee
AHC
08/02/2004

SLOVENIA - Slovenian opposition scores points in debate on 'The Erased'
RFE/RL
06/02/2004

BULGARIA - New ECRI report criticizes Bulgaria over Macedonian minority - reactions
RFE/RL
06/02/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Criminal charges brought against British journalist, four other individuals arrested
RSF/IFEX
06/02/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - WAN concerned over threats against daily and its journalists
WAN/IFEX
06/02/2004

ALBANIA - A crime of a highly-social dangerousness
AHC
06/02/2004

BULGARIA - Foreign (Bulgarian and Palestinian) Medical Workers Facing Death Penalty in Libya
EMHRN
05/02/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - UN Condemns Germany for Forcible Expulsions of Roma to Serbia and Montenegro
ERRC
05/02/2004

MACEDONIA/SERBIA - Macedonian Orthodox Church - Negotiations with Serbian Church only with mediation of third neutral side
MILS
05/02/2004

BULGARIA/ROMANIA - European Roma Information Office Newsletter 02/2004 (on Bulgaria and Romania inter alia)
ERIO
04/02/2004

ALBANIA - Albanian Helsinki Committee Raises Concerns to Ministry of Health
AHC
04/02/2004

GREECE - French ban on faith symbols would contravene international rights law. Call for France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Greece to ratify FCNM
MRGI
04/02/2004

MACEDONIA - Macedonian Tarikat deny that they are terrorists
MILS
04/02/2004

SERBIA/MACEDONIA - Serbian and Macedonian churches will negotiate with mediation of Macedonian businessman?
MILS
04/02/2004

GREECE - BBC World TV on Roma in Athens and Surroundings [29/1/2004]
BBC
03/02/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Radical Party official attacks Novi Sad daily, describes journalists as "filthy traitors and spies"
ANEM/IFEX
03/02/2004

MACEDONIA - "Macedonian and Albanian intellectuals on different frequency" (Nova Makedonija)
MILS
02/02/2004

CROATIA - New on Media Online (on Croatia)
Media Online
02/02/2004

ROMANIA - Romani CRISS News Letter No 32
Romani CRISS
02/02/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs no. 3 (86)
Divers
02/02/2004

SERBIA/MACEDONIA - Serbian Orthodox Bishop Zoran Vraniskovski released from detention
MILS
02/02/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Serbia and Montenegro in breach of UN Resolution 1244 and the Kumanovo Agreement
Youth Initative
02/02/2004

MACEDONIA - Macedonian Prime Minister Comments Helsinki Committee Report on Human Rights in Education
MILS
30/01/2004

GREECE - IFJ condemns efforts to carry out mass arrest of journalists' union leaders
IFJ/IFEX
30/01/2004

CROATIA - Journalist receives death threat
IPI/IFEX
30/01/2004

TURKEY - Trial of Human Rights Actvists
Observatoire
30/01/2004

SERBIA - Supreme court petitioned to review compensation awarded
HLC
29/01/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs no 1 / 2004
Divers
29/01/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Concern over new customs rules affecting foreign correspondents in Serbia
IPI/IFEX
29/01/2004

SERBIA - Is there growing anti-Semitism in Serbia?
B92
28/01/2004

CYPRUS - The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly calls on the two communities "to resume negotiations without delay"
CoE
28/01/2004

MACEDONIA - Macedonia's Helsinki Committee: State appears as biggest violator of human rights
MILS
28/01/2004

INTERNATIONAL - IOM welcomes the entry into force of the Palermo protocol against smuggling of migrants by land, sea and air
IOM
28/01/2004

SERBIA/MACEDONIA - Serbian Church Bishop in Macedonia Indicted
MILS
28/01/2004

ROMANIA - Prime minister says Romania has 'moral duty' to fight anti-Semitism
RFE/RL
27/01/2004

TURKEY - Diyarbakir Bar Opens Case against Broadcast Regulation
Bianet
27/01/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Holocaust Day: Council of Europe Secretary General warns against forgetting and PACE marks the day
CoE
27/01/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Learning the Lessons of the Romani Holocaust (O Baro Parrajmos): The history of Settela (Anna Maria) Steinbach
Janette Gr�nfors
27/01/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Genocide meet warns of world paralysis in the face of atrocities
Haaretz
27/01/2004

BULGARIA - Council of Europe's ECRI recommends that Bulgaria acknowledges the existence of Macedonians and Pomaks
CoE
27/01/2004

BULGARIA - Five new reports on racism in Belgium, Bulgaria, Norway, Slovakia and Switzerland
CoE
27/01/2004

GREECE - UNHCR's suggestions for improving the text of the asylum procedures EU draft directive
UNHCR
26/01/2004

BULGARIA - Joint Statement of four HR organizations on Police Assault on Sofia Roma Neighborhood 'Fakulteta'
HRP
26/01/2004

MACEDONIA/SERBIA - Macedonia's Parliament adopted declaration for support of MOC
MILS
26/01/2004

ROMANIA - Ethnic Minorities Briefs No2, 2004
Divers
26/01/2004

GREECE - "Valse Hesitation" (One Step Forward, Two Steps Back) for Olga B., Victim of Forced Prostitution and Rape (20/01/2004) [in greek]
GHM
26/01/2004

SERBIA - Authors of inflammatory poster must be identified and punished
HLC
23/01/2004

GREECE - Unorthodox Politics - The Most Religious Political Culture in Europe (N. Chrysoloras, greekworks.com 15-1-04)
Greekworks.com
23/01/2004

MACEDONIA - "Albanians are more interested in implementation of framework agreement" (15 & 16/1/04)
MILS
23/01/2004

GREECE/MACEDONIA - Macedonia and Greece will open consulates in Thessaloniki and Bitola
MILS
23/01/2004

SERBIA/MACEDONIA - Citizens initiative for support of Archepiscopy of Ohrid (Serbian Orthodoc Church)
MILS
23/01/2004

TURKEY - Radio Journalist Charged for Prison Stories
Bianet
23/01/2004

SERBIA - Motion for enforcement of court decision in Roma-related discrimination case
HLC
22/01/2004

TURKEY - Police Detain "Runaway" Reporters
BIANET
22/01/2004

SERBIA/MACEDONIA/GREECE - More developments in conflict between Serbian and Macedonian Churches with Involvement of Greek Church
MILS
22/01/2004

SERBIA - Appeal to stop eviction of Roma family
HLC
21/01/2004

INTERNATIONAL - German government urged to act on Sinti and Roma womens� rights
ERRC
21/01/2004

ROMANIA - Romanian president lashes out at Szeklers' council
RFE/RL
21/01/2004

ALBANIA - A Tragedy with Heavy Consequences
Albanian Helsinki Committee
21/01/2004

ALBANIA - Searches and seizures only on legal grounds
Albanian Helsinki Committee
21/01/2004

TURKEY - Trial against the Turkish NGO "G�C-DER" before the Istanbul State Security Court
Observatoire
21/01/2004

GREECE - New Inadmissible Rejection of Macedonian Association's Registration Despite Previous Condemnation of Greece by the European Court of Human Rights [in greek]
GHM
21/01/2004

CYPRUS - Review of the Debate on Human Rights Issues and Violations in the Republic of Cyprus (government-controlled areas)
Cyprus Action Network
20/01/2004

MACEDONIA - Macedonian groups charge that president supports homophobia
RFE/RL
20/01/2004

GREECE/SERBIA/BOSNIA - Athens mayor regrets Greek backing for Milosevic [K. Hope, F.T. 15-1-04]
Financial Times
19/01/2004

MACEDONIA/SERBIA - Developments in the Conflict Between the Macedonian and the Serbian Orthodox Churches
MILS
19/01/2004

GREECE - Holocaust Remembrance Day Declared in Greece Under International Pressure [greekworks.com, 15-1-04]
greekworks.com
18/01/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Israel Diplomat Defends Attack on Bomber Art in Stockholm
New York Times
18/01/2004

MACEDONIA/SERBIA - Amnesty International urges Macedonian authorities to release Bishop Jovan
B92 News
17/01/2004

GREECE - Greece approves Holocaust Day [JTA, 14-1-04]
JTA
17/01/2004

INTERNATIONAL - UNCHR forthcoming debate on "Are sexuality and gender identity human rights?"
EP Intergroup on Gay and Lesbian Rights
17/01/2004

GREECE - Violation of the right to education to members of the LGBT community in Greece
EP Intergroup on Gay and Lesbian Rights
17/01/2004

MACEDONIA - TOL/BRR: Divisive Macedonia's Tetovo (Albanian-language Tetovo University: segregation or equality?)
MINELRES
16/01/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Magazine editor-in-chief receives award, Serbian edition of new book to be presented
IPI/IFEX
16/01/2004

BOSNIA - Massacre Trial Highlights Obstacles to Justice
HRW
16/01/2004

KOSOVO/ROMANIA/SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Germany Under Fire at United Nations for (Kosovo, Romania, and Serbia and Montenegro) Roma Expulsions
ERRC
16/01/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 27 Dec - 9 Jan 2004
ANEM/IFEX
16/01/2004

GREECE - Wiesenthal pushing for Greek film on Merten (JTA, 31-12-03)
JTA
16/01/2004

SERBIA - First-time ever parliamentary representation for Bulgarian minority in Serbia
B92
15/01/2004

MACEDONIA/SERBIA - Serbian Orthodox Church offers dialogue to Macedonian Orthodox Church and to Macedonian authorities. Macedonian government will use all legal means for protection of MOC (15 & 16/1/04)
MILS
15/01/2004

BULGARIA - UNESCO publishes book on freedom of information laws by ARTICLE 19's law programme director - including Bulgaria
IFEX
15/01/2004

ALBANIA - Could the European Union be held responsible for the tragedy of the Albanian emigrants?
TRP
15/01/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Journalists receive death threats
IPI/IFEX
15/01/2004

GREECE - Athens Olympic City of Marousi Does Not Pay Compensation to Evicted Roma
Reuters
14/01/2004

MACEDONIA/SERBIA - More developments on the the rift between the Macedonian and the Serbian Orthodox Churches
MILS
14/01/2004

MACEDONIA/SERBIA - Further developments in crisis between Macedonian and Serbian Orthodox Churches
MILS
13/01/2004

BULGARIA - Mixed results in 2003, mixed outlook for Bulgaria
RFE/RL
13/01/2004

SERBIA - Serbia's uncertain future
RFE/RL
12/01/2004

SERBIA - Anti-European Vertical Scores Off in Serbia. Serbia Turns the Clock Back Again.
Helsinki Charter
12/01/2004

ROMANIA - Rift among Romania's hungarian minority widens
RFE/RL
12/01/2004

MACEDONIA - Police arrested Serbian exarchs in Macedonia and other priests. more news on the churches' conflict
MILS
12/01/2004

GREECE/MACEDONIA - Greece liberalizes visa regime towards Macedonia
MILS
12/01/2004

BULGARIA/GREECE/TURKEY - European Court of Human Rights Jurisprudence on freedom of religion (concerns Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey)
MINELRES
10/01/2004

SERBIA/MACEDONIA - Patriarch Negates Macedonia and Macedonian Nation
HCHRS
10/01/2004

BOSNIA - Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in the Republika Srpska dismisses "Ashdown's commission" on Srebrenica massacre
B92
09/01/2004

BULGARIA - Alternative report on the implementation of the FCNM
BHC
09/01/2004

SLOVENIA - Slovenia schedules referendum (on 15/2) on 'the erased' (non-Slovenes)
RFE/RL
09/01/2004

MACEDONIA - Mixed perceptions of Macedonia's peace accord
RFE/RL
09/01/2004

ROMANIA - Hungarian government takes sides in Transylvanian (Romania) political rift
RFE/RL
09/01/2004

CROATIA - Croatia's Serbian leader upbeat on new government
RFE/RL
09/01/2004

INTERNATIONAL - RSF terms 2003 a "black year" for press freedom
RSF/IFEX
09/01/2004

GREECE/MACEDONIA - Cancellation by Greece of "black lists" for Macedonian refugees as announced in Skopje
MILS
09/01/2004

KOSOVO - No peace for Orthodox Christmas
FORUM 18
08/01/2004

GREECE/MACEDONIA - How Greece handles Macedonia's name issue as perceived in Macedonia
MILS
08/01/2004

SERBIA/MACEDONIA - Problems between Serbian and Macedonian Orthodox Churches
MILS
08/01/2004

TURKEY - Journalist given one-year jail sentence for "insulting Parliament"
RSF/IFEX
08/01/2004

TURKEY - Hearing postponed: Do�an and others v . Turkey (seminal case of village evictions)
ECHR
08/01/2004

EUROPE - EU to go ahead with canceled anti-Semitism seminar after all
Haaretz
08/01/2004

GREECE - Journalist attacked
IPI/IFEX
07/01/2004

GREECE - On Those Who Were Shot Dead by Police in Greece, Still Forgotten, Still Seeking Justice... (03/01/2004) [in greek]
GHM
06/01/2004

GREECE - Citizenship backlog in Greece for immigrants who wait more than 10 years [K. Tzilivakis, Athens News, 2-1-04]
Athens News
06/01/2004

GREECE - Tales told by the 'travellers': Greek Roma folk tale collection [K. Tzilivakis, Athens News, 2-1-04]
Athens News
06/01/2004

GREECE - Dramatising the refugee experience in Greece [Athens News, 2-1-04]
Athens News
06/01/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Thirty-six journalists killed for their work in 2003, says CPJ
CPJ/IFEX
06/01/2004

MACEDONIA/SERBIA - Macedonian Orthodox Church head pessimistic about relations with Serbian Church which seems to be a justified conclusion
RFE/RL
06/01/2004

INTERNATIONAL - To be or not to be Jewish, lesbian, feminist
Haaretz
06/01/2004

EUROPE - EU suspends anti-Semitism seminar after World and Europe's Jewish leaders attack EU Commission
AP
06/01/2004

GREECE - Sceptical Macedonians welcome lifting of ban as Greece raises restrictions on them
The Age & ABC (Australia)
06/01/2004

INTERNATIONAL - New Shadow Reports on Bulgaria, Sweden, Switzerland & New Links to CoE Site
CEDIME-SE Guide to FCNM
06/01/2004

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - ANEM media update, 20-26 Dec 2003
ANEM/IFEX
06/01/2004

INTERNATIONAL - Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities text in various languages
CoE
04/01/04

GREECE - ECHR Convicts France for Removing Custody of Child form Jehovah's Witness Mother
ECHR
04/01/04

GREECE - Anti-Semites are using the Holocaust (Yehoshua Amishav, 1-1-04)
Haaretz/Israel Insider
01/01/04

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