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The Iranian defense lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei has saved 14 condemned women and children in Iran. Now his fight for children and women’s rights put him in danger. Meet him at the Amnesty International in Oslo, Monday 16 August at 17.00.

At its 77th session, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) will review Bosnia-Herzegovina.
NGOs can submit information, too, and participate in a joint briefing of the members of CERD in Geneva.

on peace-building experience in ex-Yu countries

Join us for an evening benefiting the first ever Burmese Arts Festival, an event designed to highlight the role of artists in bringing about change in Burma. The Festival will take place on 14-17th October 2010 at London’s Free Word Centre.

The NGO coalition of Freedom House, Global Witness, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the Eurasian Democracy Initiative is organising a lunch time event in the vicinity of the OSCE PA meeting in Oslo this Thursday.

When: Tuesday, 6. July 2010 To: Sunday, 15. August 2010 Where: Вильнюс, Latako 3 Host: Белорусский дом прав человека Contact: Анна Герасимова (

HRH Sarajevo meets TRIAL

Performance of ‘Another Sky: Voices of Conscience from around the world’, directed by Abbie Bergstrom and Susie Christensen and featuring seven King’s students, is composed of extracts from English PEN’s 2007 anthology of the work of persecuted and imprisoned writers.

The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN celebrates 50 years of defending freedom of expression around the world. PEN vice-president and former WiPC-chair, Moris Farhi talks to the first Cities of Refuge-writer in Stavanger, Mansur Rajih, who arrived in Norway after 15 years in jail in Yemen. In cooperation with ICORN.