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Moving To Mars, follows two refugee families from Burma over the course of a year that will change their lives completely.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 2005, Wahu Kaara

The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Vitit Muntarbhorn, accuses the military regime in North Korea of horrific human rights abuses. The Rafto Prize (1993) laureate, José Ramos-Horta, calls international community to pay more attention to human rights situation in North Korea, not only to its nuclear programme.

Council of Europe and EU opinions about abolishing the death penalty in the Republic of Belarus will not be determinative in a decision making process. Mikalai Samaseika, a chair of the Parliament working group on the death penalty, stated this on 3 March in Minsk. At the same time changes in the official death penalty rhetoric are apparent.

A night of music, entertainment and speech in support of journalists, bloggers and writers in Iran.

Over ten years have passed since Yeltsin announced a second full ground offensive against Chechnya with the words “we want to end once and for
all the centre of international terrorism in Chechnya.” But what has Moscow achieved? The harsh policies pursued during continuous anti- terrorist operations in the region probably fuel rather than soothe conflict. Recent developments in North Caucasus suggest that the Islamist insurgency is spreading.

Если ты хочешь организовать информационную кампанию, если хочешь научиться чётко формулировать свой запрос в Интернете, если хочешь научиться чему-либо у других, то этот фильм для тебя!

If you want to effectively use the power of the web, if you want to launch an information campaign, if you want to effectively say what you want to say online, if you want to learn from the experience of others, watch this film! (a blogger from the Philippines)

The 10th annual Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards honour those who, often at great personal risk, have given voice to issues and stories from around the globe that would otherwise have passed unnoticed.

On the 6th of March 2010 the President of Republic of Poland appointed a new Public Prosecutor General, who for the first time will be independent from the Ministry of Justice and will be elected in open and transparent elections.

Norwegian PEN has joined the Our Society Will Be a Free Society campaign. Its aim is to petition the Islamic Republic of Iran leader to free the journalists and writers held in Islamic Republic of Iran. Norwegian PEN calls to sign the petition and join the campaign before 20 March 2010.

George Orwell was a staunch proponent of freedom of all kinds, especially of speech and of the press. But with criticisms of the media flourishing, preachers of hate making headlines, the anonymity of the internet, and journalists complaining about libel laws – how free is free speech, and what should the limits be?