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In the first of a series of events between Index on Censorship and the Southbank Centre, South African novelist Nadine Gordimer will be speaking at the centre’s Literature and Spoken Word Festival on 14 March.

Join a demonstration on 19 December to mark a year since Lukashenko’s vicious crackdown on dissent and political opposition in Belarus.

On the 12-14 December Norasia arranges the Conference of the Network for Asia Studies at the University of Oslo. The theme is “Asia’s Century: Where is the Asia Research?” There will be a special panel discussion at the conference dedicated to the Norwegian Burma research.

In celebration of the international Human Rights Day, December10, the human rights organization FIAN International invites people worldwide to participate in an art contest.

3 снежня 2011 г. у віленскім Беларускім Доме правоў чалавека адбудзецца фінальная гульня VIII Нацыянальнага конкурсу школьных каманд “Што я ведаю пра Еўропу?”, арганізаванага ініцыятыўнай групай па стварэнні Клубу еўрапейскіх настаўнікаў пры падтрымцы Асацыяцыі па міжнародных пытаннях (АМО) (Чэхія) і ПАГА “Рух “За Свабоду””.

Fra en bakgård i Oslo kjemper journalistene i Democratic Voice of Burma mot et av verdens verste diktaturer. Vi følger tv-kanalen når de går live for første gang under Burmas hittil eneste valg siden 1990, og dekker løslatelsen av demokratiforkjemperen Aung San Suu Kyi direkte minutt for minutt.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC), English PEN has produced ‘Beyond Bars’, a mobile exhibition highlighting ten of the most significant cases they have worked on since 1960.

Index on Censorship organises a panel debate on science and transparency to launch the science issue.

International Conference “The Arab Spring – and Beyond” will focus on countries where the uprisings have not succeeded and on those where they have, but where freedoms are still fragile.