http://humanrightshouse.orgenHuman Rights House Foundationniels.jacob@humanrightshouse.org (Niels Jacob Harbitz)Wed, 08 May 2013 12:51:05 GMTWed, 19 Jun 2013 01:32:30 GMTNoop 2.360http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/19250&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/19250.html&d=1On 5 May 2013, FIAN International celebrates the coming into force of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR). Under the Protocol, victims of violations of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR), such as the right to food, health, education, and housing, who are unable to seek relief for their claims within their own country, can seek redress at the international level by filing a complaint with the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in those countries that have ratified.Wed, 08 May 2013 12:51:05 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/19086&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/19086.html&d=1The right to be a human rights defender has been reinforced by the resolution adopted by consensus at the Human Rights Council. The resolution focuses on legislation affecting, restricting and criminalising the work and activities of human rights defenders.Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:06:02 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18969&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18969.html&d=1NHC together with partner organisations Civil Society Institute and The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) call upon Armenian authorities to eliminate violations in the administration of justice and ensure the establishment of an independent judiciary and the rule of law. These steps are fundamental to the further democratic development of Armenia, and should be a prerequisite for any further engagement with the EU.Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:21:51 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18944&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18944.html&d=1The PEN delegation visited Turkey from 12 - 18 November. PEN International and PEN branches from the USA, Sweden, England, Turkey and Norway participated. Meeting with President Abdullah Gül in Ankara on 13 November, the delegation asked that Turkey took concrete action to stop the alarming increase in the number of writers, journalists, translators and publishers who are detained or prosecuted in the country.Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:55:12 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18903&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18903.html&d=1FIAN International and other NGOs denounce the health plight of hunger-striking farmers arbitrarily imprisoned in Paraguay.Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:28:05 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18904&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18904.html&d=1The office of Norwegain Helsinki Committee partner in Belarus, prominent NGO 'Viasna', led by the imprisoned human rights defender Ales Bialiatski, was confiscated on 26 November. The move was the last fulfilment of the illegal conviction of Bialiatski just over one year ago. NHC has protested this last blow against Viasna through the network Civil Society Platform.Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:59:21 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18877&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18877.html&d=1The Norwegian Helsinki Committee is deeply concerned at recent request by the Prosecutor General’s office in Kazakhstan that the court ban what in effect are all news outlets critical of the current government.Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:00:09 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18854&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18854.html&d=1Norwegian PEN, the world’s largest writers and free expression organisation, has awarded this year's Ossietzky prize to Norwegian-Pakistani singer, music producer, composer, film maker and human rights activist Deeyah.Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:28:04 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18853&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18853.html&d=1Two more Tibetans have died after reportedly setting themselves on fire in protest against Chinese rule, a rights group said, on the same day that the Communist Party unveiled its new generation of leaders. The incidents on 15 November would bring the total number Tibetan self-immolations to 12 in the last ten days, since the run-up to the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing.Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:43:49 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18825&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18825.html&d=1The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has issued recommendations to the Togo state urging it to ensure that land contracts with foreign companies do not result in forced eviction, internal displacement, or the increased food insecurity of women and girls.Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:28:26 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18802&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18802.html&d=1While the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women welcomes legislative improvements and Turkmenistan’s submission of its country report, it also notes that it is “seriously concerned about attitudes and policies reinforcing discriminatory traditional norms, harmful practices, patriarchal attitudes and deep-rooted stereotypes”.Sat, 03 Nov 2012 09:22:13 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18796&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18796.html&d=1Recently Norwegian Minister of Development Erik Solheim announced that Norway will make an assessment of the legitimacy of developing countries’ debt to Norway. This means that the government will be the first ever to carry out a creditor’s debt audit.Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:26:13 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18773&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18773.html&d=1FIAN International welcomes the adoption of the Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition (GSF) as an important achievement for the human rights-based approach to food security policy. Adopted during the 39th session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) on 17 October 2012, the GSF, as the overarching framework, will be the primary global reference for coordination and coherence in decision making on food and agricultural issues.Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:36:22 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18751&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18751.html&d=1The Norwegian Helsinki Committee is disappointed to learn of the seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence given to Kazakhstan’s opposition leader Vladimir Kozlov on 8 October 2012. Kozlov, head of the main opposition party in Kazakhstan, Alga! (Forward), was convicted for allegedly “inciting social discord”.Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:26:04 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18754&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18754.html&d=1On 16 October, World Food Day, FIAN International asks the public to take a stand for the rights of Mozambican peasants experiencing right to food violations at the hands of European investors.Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:23:42 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18734&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18734.html&d=1FIAN International expresses its support for the struggle for the rights to food, to land, to water, to seeds and to forest of more than 400 million people in India who remain entrenched in poverty. Jan Satyagraha 2012 - March for Justice - is a crucial mobilisation of indigenous peoples, landless, peasants and other food producers in India, towards realisation of their rights, but, in reality, it is much more than that.Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:43:58 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18735&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18735.html&d=1The Norwegian Helsinki Committee remains deeply concerned about the current human rights situation in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, which begs for improvement on every aspect of fundamental human rights, says Secretary General of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, Bjørn Engesland. Both states are counted amongst the most repressive not only in the Central Asian region, but also in the world as a whole. Torture, political use of the judiciary and repression of media and civil society are widespread.Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:25:02 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18580&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18580.html&d=1The post-revolutionary Tunisian government has already been accused of clamping down on reporters. The ones recently charged include two artists whose crime is creating sculptures that the authorities consider harmful to public order and good morals. Nadia Jelassi's work is of a veiled woman surrounded by rocks, suggesting she is being stoned, while Mohamed Ben Slama's work is of a child with ants streaming from a schoolbag that spell out "God".Sun, 07 Oct 2012 08:50:51 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18664&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18664.html&d=1Civil society representatives launching the fifth annual report on the right to food and nutrition state that it is impossible to combat the causes of hunger while keeping existing power relations untouched. The tendency for exclusion from economic and political decision-making goes hand in hand with incidence of hunger and malnutrition.Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:26:01 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18665&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18665.html&d=1In cooperation with local activists, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee has submitted an alternative report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women’s (CEDAW) 53 Session on 11 October, where Turkmenistan will be heard in Geneva.Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:32:15 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18688&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18688.html&d=1The Norwegian Helsinki Committee expresses genuine support and solidarity for Belgrade Pride Parade and Pride Week 2012 and condemns the decision by the Serbian authorities to ban Belgrade Pride 2012.Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:40:59 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18621&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18621.html&d=1After nine years of peasant struggle, the Cacahuatepec Accords signed by the Governor of Guerrero, Ángel Aguirre Rivero, and the Council of Ejidos and Communities Opposing La Parota (CECOP) is a major step towards the definitive cancellation of the building of the hydroelectric dam.Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:19:49 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18581&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18581.html&d=1Russian Association Golos was awarded the Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award 2012 for its outstanding efforts to promote democratic values through free and fair elections in Russia, Secretary General Bjørn Engesland says in a statement today.Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:19:27 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18562&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18562.html&d=1ARTICLE 19 calls on the Ukrainian government to publicly condemn the killing of environmental information activist, Volodymyr Honcharenko, as a crime against freedom of expression and ensure that those responsible are brought to justice via an effective, independent and speedy process. Volodymyr campaigned for environmental information in Ukraine and died in August.Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:18:52 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18561&d=1http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/18561.html&d=1A group of four men attacked the opposition journalist, Ularbek Baytalak, on the outskirts of Astana, where he was left to die. The journalist works for two opposition newspapers, Dat and Tortinshi bilik, and takes a critical stance towards the current government. The attack on Baytalak comes a few months after fellow opposition journalist Lukpan Akhmendyarov survived being shot and stabbed outside his apartment in April 2012.Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:18:25 GMT