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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.”

The seminar will focus on the situation of women in general and women writers in particular.

The seminar will be about freedom of expression in Afghanistan, the plight of Afghan writers and the Authors’ House in Kabul, including the house’s general manager, Waheed Warasta.

Index on Censorship will be at all three of the main UK political parties’ conferences speaking about press freedom in light of the phone hacking scandal, recent concerns over privacy law and super-injunctions and our on-going Libel Reform Campaign.

Journalists examine what freedoms have been lost ten years after the World Trade Centre collapsed in the face of terror.

‘The Colonel’ is banned in its native Iran, where the office of censorship has prohibited publication.