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Free Speech and Literature
This six-part course, led by Dr Sophie Mayer, will consider some of the best known and most dramatic challenges to free speech: attacks on poems, plays, novels and films.
Index Freedom of Expression Awards 2012
The 12th annual Index Freedom of Expression Awards will be held on 28 March. They will honour those who, often at great personal risk, have given voice to issues and stories from around the globe that would otherwise have passed unnoticed.
Nadine Gordimer at the Southbank Centre
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.
19 December: One Year On – A demonstration for Belarus
Join a demonstration on 19 December to mark a year since Lukashenko’s vicious crackdown on dissent and political opposition in Belarus.
Panel discussion on Burma
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.
Art contest: Stop impunity – hunger on trial
In celebration of the international Human Rights Day, December10, the human rights organization FIAN International invites people worldwide to participate in an art contest.
Фінальная гульня VIII Нацыянальнага конкурсу школьных каманд “Што я ведаю пра Еўропу?”
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””.
Burmas stemme
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.
Writers in Prison Exhibition
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.