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With an even bigger and even better programme than when we first did this, in December 2008, the second Human Rights Human Wrongs Documentary Film Festival promises to generate more attention and debate. The carefully selected films address four key areas of the current human rights situation around the world: Migration, Impunity and War Crimes, Whose Business is Human Rights?, and ‘Worlds without Witnesses’.

Delegates from a coalition of independent Ethiopian human rights organisations who, with HRHF Oslo and Geneva’s facilitation, submitted a joint report for this hearing back in April attend the adoption of the official report from the hearing.

Following the submission of a so-called other stakeholders’ report for the deadline for this hearing back in April, delegates of the coalition behind the report attend the hearing and advocate the report’s content. HRHF Oslo and Geneva have provided editorial advice, facilitated the advocacy and secured the funds, together with other sposnors, for the delegates to come to Geneva.

All current in-house member organisations of the Human Rights House in Oslo invite their friends to join them in the celebratation that it is now 20 years since the house was first established.

Members of the Norwegian NGO Forum for Human Rights attend the adoption of the report from Wednesday’s hearing of Norway before the UPR mechanism.

Following broad advocacy work in the build-up to Norway’s hearing before the UPR mechanism, representatives of different member organisations of the Norwegian NGO Forum for Human Rights also attend the hearing.

Marking the opening of the 6th session of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review mechanism, the human rights situation in Eritrea goes under scrutiny this morning. Following the submission of a so-called other stakeholders’ report for the deadline in April, a delegation of representatives of four different Eritrean diasporas are present to advocate their report. HRHF Oslo and Geneva have provided editorial advice, facilitated the advocacy and secured the financial support to bring the delegation to Geneva.

The Copenhagen Summit will debate one of the most important public issues of the past thirty years. Many scientists and advocates predict climate change will kill potentially hundreds of millions of people worldwide over the coming decades. This begs the question: is there a special responsibility for the media to exercise restraint in reporting climate change? Or are we witnessing the rise of an unchallengeable orthodoxy?

within ’16 Days of Activism’