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United States: Court case over comic book’s nude Picasso
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is backing a legal challenge to charges brought against a US shopkeeper who accidently allowed a child to be given a copy of a comic book featuring images of artist Pablo Picasso in the nude. (13-JUN-05)
Freedom of information left in tsunami’s wake
The earthquake and tsunamis that hit South and Southeast Asia on 26
December 2004 resulted in a tragedy of enormous proportions. Access to information takes on new meaning in the context of a natural disaster. ARTICLE 19’s recent report highlights the importance of fulfilling the rights to expression and information. (06-JUN-05)
The CHC presented Annual Report for 2004
The overall human rights situation in Republic of Croatia has continued improving gradually in 2004, according to the Annual Report of the Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights. The report was presented today in the Centre for Human Rights in Zagreb by Zarko Puhovski, the Chairman of the Committee and Srdjan Dvornik, the Executive Director of the CHC. (20-JUN-05)
19 June is Aung San Suu Kyi’s 60th birthday
On 19 June, the charismatic Nobel Peace Prize Laureate from 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi turns 60. The Burmese human rights defender and democracy campaigner is under house arrest for the third time, and will on her birthday have served an accumulated nine years and 238 days since she was first refused to leave her home in 1989. For the last two years, she has been unable to communicate with the outside world. (18-JUNE-05)
Seminar: The situation for Kurdistan’s women
On Tuesday 28 June, the Women’s Issues Group within the Norwegian Council for the Rights of the Kurdish People, one of the organisations in the Norwegian Human Rights House in Oslo, will host a seminar on the women’s situation in Kurdistan. The seminar, which begins at 17.00 hrs., is open to the public. (17-JUNE-05)
Election? What election, say Iranian Kurds
All Kurds share the joy that Iraq has had a Kurdish President and that Barzani is elected to be President in three Kurdish provinces in Northern Iraq. However, liberation in some parts of Kurdistan does not grant that basic human rights are observed for all Kurds, says Mr. Abdurrahman Heci, leader of the Iranian Kurdish party PJAK. Mr. Abdurrahman visited the Norwegian Human Rights House on Thursday 16 June. (17-JUNE-05)
So much for multi-partyism, says key human rights defender
-The forthcoming referendum on multi-partyism is opposed by civil society, oppositional political parties and the donor community, and not only for its wastefulness, says Martin Masiga (right), Executive Director of HURINET, one of the leading human rights organisations in the Republic of Uganda. Read Masiga’s background on the issue. (17-JUNE-05)
Kenya – Continued need for political change
On Monday 20 June, HRH’s Project Manager for East Africa Niels Jacob Harbitz will participate at a seminar focussing on the continued need for political change in the Republic of Kenya. The seminar is co-hosted by the Norwegian Council for Africa, HRH’s partner in our recent seminar on Northern Republic of Uganda, and FORUM for Environment and Development. Keynote speakers are Apollo Njonjo and Halle Jørn Hanssen. (16-JUNE-05)
Dalai Lama visited the Human Rights House
On Tuesday 14 June, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dalai Lama visited the Norwegian Human Rights House and gave a press conference in the conference room here. -The wish for democracy among the Chinese people has grown so strong that it can no longer be silenced, said the Buddhist monk, who himself is the best example of just that. (15-JUNE-05)