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Kerry Max Cook, US, spent 22 years on death row for a crime he did not commit.

When: Monday, 16. November 2009 Where: Bergen, Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) Host: Amnesty International Region West, Jekteviksbakken 31 More info: www.amnesty.no/web.nsf/pages/8B84871584AAFBDAC12573D00045AF9C Chr. Michelsen InstituteP.O. Box 6033, N-5892 Bergen, NorwayStreet address: Jekteviksbakken 31Phone: +47 47 93 80 00Fax: +47 55 31 03 13E-mail: cmi@cmi.no

When: Thursday, 29. October 2009 17:00 – 20:30 Where: Oslo, P-Hotels Oslo, limit 19 Host: Independent Democratic Kurdish Women’s association, Kurdocice Watch Chak, Female selection in RKR in cooperation with Integration and Diversity IMDI More info: www.kurdistan.no/1051085761/1256119918 Program 17:00 – 18:00 Dr Isamel Fahmi Mohammed Saeed Ass. Professor of Language & Literature Violence against women […]

“The Lasting Struggle for Freedom in Eritrea. Human Rights and Political Development, 1991-2009” report to be presented. A screening of the film
‘A Nation held Hostage,’ made in connection with the report.

of associations for persons with disability

The Burmese Theatre Workshop – the UK’s first ensemble of Burmese actors – presents ‘Let Me Out of Hell’, a performance about Burma, post Cyclone Nargis.

Reconciliation and transitional justice

Many women in Iraqi Kurdistan still undergo traditional genital mutilation, shows the data collected by WADI association. The research was conducted in 2005 by teams of trained personnel in villages and small areas in the Kurdish region in Iraq. Traveling to affected areas also involved providing women with information film about the damage of female genital mutilation.

Another seminar within the program focuses on Council of Europe’s institutions, European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its additional protocols, European Court of Human Rights, decisions of UN Human Rights Committee considering freedom of expression, freedom of expression in Belarus de jure and de facto, etc.