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The festival of high-level, thought-provoking debate (satellite events starting 12 October!), with Index on Censorship team members taking part in several fascinating debates.

Protest has been vital in securing many of the rights and freedoms we enjoy today and it has the power to change the course of history. It has been used to create democracies and demand fair and equal treatment.

Screening of the documentary film Yodok by Andrzej Fidyk about current atrocities occuring in North Korean concentration camps.

A conference on FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa as a tool for development and reconciliation. The Conference forms part of the research project “Sports and Reconciliation”.

Children from mixed marriages as marginalized ethnic groups

A seminar is entitled “The development of civil society in Afghanistan – where was it from?” Norwegian PEN succeded to invite the recently retired military chief, Sverre Diesen.

Award given for outstanding achievements within the field of freedom of expression. Carl von Ossietzky (1889 – 1938) was a German pacifist and the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize.

On 7 October 2006, Russian journalist, author and human rights defender Anna Politkovskaya was found shot dead in an elevator in her Moscow apartment building. Three years later, no-one has been brought to justice for her brutal murder.

On the eve of the anniversary of Anna’s murder, RAW in WAR honours her memory and the work of other women like her in the world, by presenting the annual Anna Politkovskaya Award to a courageous human rights defender from Iran.