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English PEN and the Free Burma VJ campaign will be holding a Poetry Protest outside the Burmese Embassy in London to call for the immediate and unconditional release of the many Burmese writers currently detained in violation of their right to free expression.

For ninety years, English PEN has been fighting for the freedom to write and the freedom to read at home and abroad.

It is said there are reforms going on in Burma after the election last year. At the same time there are still around 2000 political prisoners in Burmese jails and the level of conflict in ethnic areas have escalated.

Літоўскі кінафестываль “Нязручнае кіно”, Беларускі Дом правоў чалавека і арганізацыя Belarus Watch запрашаюць на прагляд фільма пра беларускі Вольны тэатр і дыскусію: ці можа чалавек карыстацца сваёй свабодай выказвання меркаванняў і свабоды сходаў у Беларусі? Чаму ўсё больш і больш грамадзян Беларусі, журналісты, мастакі, навукоўцы і іншыя просяць палітычнага прытулку ў Літве і іншых краінах? Якая сітуацыя з правамі чалавека ў Беларусі?

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

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.