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Protest against human rights violations in Chechnya
We, participants of the annual meeting of the Human Rights Houses Network, representatives of human rights organizations of Albania, Austria, Republic of Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Croatia, Republic of Kenya, Norway, Republic of Poland, the Russian Federation, express our deep concern about mass violations of human rights and humanitarian law in the Chechen Republic and the situation of internally displaced persons from the Chechen Republic. (Photo: Norwegian Helsinki Committee) (29 January, 2003)
Network Meeting in Moscow 17-19 January
Around 20 representatives from the Human Rights House Network will attend the annual Network Meeting, which this year will be held in Moscow in the period 17-19 January. (14 January, 2003)
Establishing Human Rights Houses
Read an interview with Ms. Maria Dahle, Executive Director of the Human Rights House Foundation, in the Norwegian Helsinki Committee´s magazine “Menneskerettighetsmagasinet MR”. Ms. Dahle answers questions about the history of the Human Rights House Network, current projects, and the idea of a Human Rights House as such. (Norwegian language) (20 December, 2002)
Christmas Calendar on Human Rights
In cooperation with the Norwegian Board of Education the Human Rights House Foundation has made a Christmas Calendar on human rights. By solving a rebus pupils can learn about human rights and win a prize. (18 November, 2002)
The Rafto Prize for 2002
The Rafto Foundation wishes to support the saharawi´s struggle for human rights and self-determination, and has therefore decided to give the Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize for 2002 to Sidi Mohammed Daddach from Western Sahara. Daddach has spent more than half his life as a prisoner of conscience, without giving up the fight for human rights and dignity. (Norwegian language) (27-OCT-02)
Report from seminar on terrorism and human rights
On March 23. the Norwegian Human Rights House organized a seminar entitled “Menneskerettigheter i klemme” on human rights after September 11. The report from the seminar is now available online in Norwegian language. Read the report (PDF) (27 September, 2002)
The Rafto Prize for 2002
The Rafto Foundation wishes to support the saharawi´s struggle for human rights and self-determination, and has therefore decided to give the Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize for 2002 to Sidi Mohammed Daddach from Western Sahara. Daddach has spent more than half his life as a prisoner of conscience, without giving up the fight for human rights and dignity. (Norwegian language) (27 October, 2002)
Letter to OSCE on Belarus
President Marek Nowicki of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR) in the Republic of Poland has written a letter to the OSCE, remarking Belarusian authorities´ violation of the freedom of expression. (23 August 2002)