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For the first time, high level experts will discuss how human rights education can contribute to a positive development both within and between the neighbouring states of Norway and the Russian Federation. (20-MAR-07)
 

Last night the Norwegian human rights advocate Kieu Tran, right, was brought in for questioning by the Vietnamese authorities. Tran acted as an interpreter on Thursday when Therese Jebsen of the Rafto Foundation were arrested while visiting last year´s Rafto Human Rights Prize laureate, venerable Thich Quang Do, together with Mr Tom Rune Orset, a journalist from the Norwegian TV2. (17-MAR-07)
 

Last night the Norwegian human rights advocate Kieu Tran was brought in for questioning by the Vietnamese authorities. Tran acted as an interpreter on Thursday this week when Therese Jebsen, representative of the Rafto Foundation for Human Rights in Bergen, Norway, visited last year´s Rafto Human Rights Prize laureate, venerable Thich Quang Do, together with Tom Rune Orset, a journalist from the Norwegian TV2. (17-MAR-07)
 

“I call upon people from around the world, especially those who are investing or giving development aid to Vietnam, to draw lessons from today’s events. Instead of helping to strengthen the communist regime and prolong its survival, try to use your economic aid to save 80 million Vietnamese, and liberate them from the great prison in which they languish today”. Read an interview with Thich Quang Do after arrest of Therese Jebsen, on March 15, 2007.
(16-MAR-07)

´The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights would like to express its deep concern with respect to the Polish Government’s stance adopted at a Common Conference of the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Cluster Munitions Coalition on the prohibition of the use and production of cluster munitions (Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions), held on 22-23 February 2007.´ writes Mr Marek Antoni Nowicki President of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights to the Polish Prime Minister. (16-MAR-07)

Acknowledging the interdependence of fundamental human rights, ARTICLE 19´s report Pioneering Women’s Voices: A Celebration of Women’s Journalism Across the Globe,  looks at freedom of expression and access to information as essential components of broader freedoms such as the right to political participation. Looking at women and journalism, the report documents how women´s work and identities are shaped by multiple issues –including age, class, religion and political affiliation. (15-MAR-07)
 

Moments after handing over to Thich Quang Do the diploma for the Rafto Human Rights Prize for 2006, the diploma that Quang Do was not allowed to come to Bergen last November to receive, Therese Jebsen, right, of the Rafto Foundation and interpreter Kieu Tran was arrested in Saigon this morning. -This arrest makes me ashamed and humiliated for my country and people, said Quang Do. (15-MAR-07)
 

Chinese authorities have resolved to “strike hard” against voices of opposition in East Turkestan. The Rafto Foundation and Human Rights House Foundation have signed an appeal by the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) to the EU.(15-MAR-07)
   

Moments after handing over to Thich Quang Do the diploma for the Rafto Human Rights Prize for 2006, the diploma that Quang Do was not allowed to come to Bergen last November to receive, Therese Jebsen, right, of the Rafto Foundation and interpreter Kieu Tran was arrested in Saigon this morning. -This arrest makes me ashamed and humiliated for my country and people, said Quang Do. (15-MAR-07)