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How should the responsible for human rights violations in Iraq be brought to justice after the war? In an interview with the newspaper Vårt Land, Gunnar M. Karlsen from the Norwegian Helsinki Committee argues that a special Iraq court with broad international support should be established. Read the interview in Norwegian Language (14-APR-03)
 

How should the responsible for human rights violations in Iraq be brought to justice after the war? In an interview with the newspaper Vårt Land, Gunnar M. Karlsen from the Norwegian Helsinki Committee argues that a special Iraq court with broad international support should be established. Read the interview (14 April 2003, Norwegian language)

Karen Lomeland Jacobsen from the Rafto Foundation’s student group criticizes the oil company TotalFinaElf for its involvement in searching for oil in Western Sahara. Western Sahara is occupied by Morocco, and UN recommends that use of natural resources such as oil be postponed until after the conflict is resolved.  Read more (14 April, 2003, Norwegian language)

The Annual Report of the HRH Network is now available. (9 April, 2003)
 
 

The Secretary General of the International Society for Health and Human Rights (ISHHR), Ms. Nora Sveaass – statement against the ongoing war in Iraq. (9 April, 2003)

Imran Ezhiev, who was abducted by armed men in Shali Raion on 15 March, was found near the village of Berkat-Yurt early on 19 March. Ezhiev heads a local branch of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society and is also a coordinator in the Chechen Republic for the Moscow Helsinki Group. Read the letter from The Norwegian Helsinki Committee , 17 March, to the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. (24-MAR-03)
 

In 2002, no real progress was made in the area of protection of human rights and freedoms in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Read a summary of the human rights situation in BiH and activities in the Human Rights House in Sarajevo. File: Background 2002  (26-FEB-03)
 

Read about the main activities and human rights focus of the  organizations in the Human Rights House in Bergen. This document also presents two new organizations – the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Committee and Fredskorpset.File: Background 2002  (26-FEB-02)
 

The human rights violations in the Chechen Republic were the most urgent problems facing human rights movement in the Russian Federation in 2002. This document presents these and other human rights challenges in the Russian Federation, as well as a summary of activities in the Russian Research Center for Human Rights.  (26-FEB-03)