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Today, the Ghulja massacre is being marked worldwide. The Rafto Foundation pays its respect to the hundreds of Uyghurs who were killed or imprisoned after participating in a peaceful demonstration in Ghulja in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the People´s Republic of China in 1997.

The Role of Youth in Peace Building Process

Throughout history, young people have always aspired to a better life. Previous generations dreamed of America. Today Europe is the great attraction. On 13 February photographer Rune Eraker’s exhibition The Dream of Europe opens at the Nobel Peace Center.

Representatives of independent Sudanese civil society organizations, media and rights activists called on Sudanese government, political actors and civil society members to urgently convene a conference to discuss the crisis brought on by the Sudanese government’s reaction to the charges brought by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court against the President of Republic of the Sudan.

Міжнародны дзень забароны катаванняў беларускія сілавыя структуры адзначылі на ўласны капыл. Затрыманых напярэдадні, 3 лютага, гомельскіх апазіцыянераў у час дагляду прымусілі распрануцца дагала.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for urgent humanitarian action by the international community over the plight of Dawit Isaak, a journalist and writer who has been held in State of Eritrea without trial for almost eight years and who is believed to be seriously ill.

On the occasion of the 12thsummit of the African Union (AU), Member States’ discussions included the fight against impunity for serious international crimes and the principle of universal jurisdiction. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) urges the African Union to use this opportunity to explore ways of how best to support an exercise of universal jurisdiction and to clarify misconceptions of the principle, thereby contributing to global accountability for the most serious crimes.

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) strongly condemns today’s brutal assassination of Said Tahlil Ahmed, Director of HornAfrik Radio in Mogadishu at around 14:45 hrs local time. Three men with pistols shot Said Tahlil Ahmed four times in the head in Bakara Market.

Rabab Amidane, right, is awarded the Norwegian Student’s Peace Prize for her work for human rights, students’ rights and peace in Western Sahara. Amidane is contributing to inform the world about the discrimination and the violence that the Sahrawis are exposed to by the Moroccan government. Even though Amidane uses peaceful means in her fight for human rights, she has been exposed to torture and arrested by the Moroccan police several times.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its African group, the Federation of African Journalists, today urged the Kenyan government to launch an immediate investigation into the murder of Francis Nyaruri, a Kenyan journalist whose decapitated and beaten body was found in a forest in the west of the country.

Djibril Bassolé, right, the United Nations and African Union (AU) joint chief mediator for the peace process in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region today expressed grave concern over renewed combat in the southern part of the vast region, saying it undermines hopes for a peaceful settlement of the conflict.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, right, said Tuesday she was alarmed by reports of the rapidly deteriorating conditions facing civilians in the Muhajeria area of South Darfur, where fighting between Government forces and the Sudanese Liberation Army/Mini Minawi faction (SLA/MM) against the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) has resulted in civilian casualties and displaced some 30,000 people.