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 Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP) is to assist Leyla Zana and three other
 imprisoned former Democracy Party (DEP) parliamentarians in taking cases to the
 European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), following the decision of Turkish courts
 today to confirm their fifteen year prison sentences. (22-APR-2004)

Erik Hagen is a member of the Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara. He was arrested on April 5
 by Moroccan security forces in the capital of Western Sahara, l’Ayoune, and deported to the
 neighbouring country of Mauritania. Hagen was in the Moroccan occupied territory to interview
 human rights activists and former political prisoners, among them Sidi Mohammed Daddach,
 who two years ago was awarded the Rafto Prize for his lifelong struggle for an independent
 Western Sahara.(20-APR-2004)

On April 6th, a meeting was held in the Rafto House in commemoration of the genocide in Rwanda. Astrid Arne, anthropologist and former aid worker in Burundi, and Laurent Sinamenye, a Rwandan student living in Norway, gave lectures. (20-APR-2004)

 In 1948 more than 900,000 Palestinians were forced to leave their houses,
 by a deliberate mass  expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland.
 Today, there are more than 5 million Palestinian refugees in the world,
 out of a population of 9 million Palestinians in total. (20-APR-2004)

On the International Women Day, the Iranian writer Siba Shakib visited Bergen as the guest of the Norwegian Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Committee and the “March 8th Initiative” in Bergen. Siba Shakib is the author of a book on Islamic Republic of Afghanistan entitled ”Where God Cries”. The book is a story of an Afghan woman, Shirin Gol, and her experience during the different regimes of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. (22-MAR-2004)

Association „Renesansa“ together with “Zene Zenama” and “Korak Vise”successfully finished the campaign named „Modification and addition the statutory code in getting orthopaedic expedients for women operated from breast cancer“. The campaign lasted a few months, and officially finished in the middle of March, when this bylaw was modified by the Government of Sarajevo’s Canton . (15-APR-04)

The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights is organizing its second Travelling Festival devoted to the presentation of documentary films on the subject of human rights. From 31.03 until 02.04 the Festival was held in Bialystok, the largest city of NE Republic of Poland. (05-APR-04)

Discrimination upon women still can be felt in BH society. After the Law on Equality of Gender in BiH was brought in 2003, women decided to take a next step and to help in implementation the Law. That is the reason why women’s NGOs gathered on 31-MAR-04 and promoted the brochure – Platform for Women`s NGO Action in BiH. (02-APR-04)

After the conflicts that happened in Kosovo and Serbia last week, reaction spread out on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina as well. Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina sharply reacted on the attacks on religious sacraments in some places in the country. (24-MAR-04)