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Inconvenient Films, Belarusian Human Rights House and Belarus Watch are inviting you to watch a movie about the Belarusian Free Theatre and to discuss: can people enjoy their freedom of expression and freedom of assembly in Belarus? Why more and more Belarusian citizens, journalists, artists, scientists, and others are seek political asylum in Lithuania and other countries? What is the human rights situation in Belarus?

Frank Mugisha-Executive Director of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) will be awarded Rafto prize on November 6th

A delegation of the Human Rights House Foundation and Human Rights House Network´s members from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are taking part at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The delegation will have meetings with the country rapporteurs, the Commissioner for Human Rights and the rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders in the Council of Europe.

FRITT ORD FOUNDATION and BORGEN PRODUCTION AS
Invite the public to a seminar at Saga Kino (Saga Cinema), Oslo
Thursday, 6 October 2011, 10.00–12.30

The Norwegian Helsinki Committee invites you to the seminar: Five years after Anna Politkovskaya’s death- The legacy of Anna

Over the last year, the human rights defenders in the Russian Federation, South Caucasus and Central Asia have faced increased and more sophisticated pressure from the authorities. In this panel, representatives from human rights organizations in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kirghizstan and the Russian Federation will give examples about the challenges they and their colleagues are facing in their daily work for the defense of human rights.

The 2011 Rafto Prize laureate will be announced at a press conference at the Rafto Human Rights House in Bergen, Norway.

This year’s big AFS happening will take place on 28-30 October at Sørmarka Conference Centre in Norway. AFS welcomes new and old volunteers to a rich and social weekend!

15 November is marked every year by PEN centers around the world as “day of imprisoned writers.”