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Freedom of expression organisations condemn two attacks on journalists in the Moscow region and call on Russian authorities to ensure protection for journalists. Both victims, Oleg Kashin and Anatoly Adamchuk, have covered a contentious highway project that would go through a forest in the Moscow suburb of Khimki. Kashin worked on a number of other sensitive subjects as well.

As Mexico celebrates the bicentennial of its independence and the centennial of its revolution, the reality is that we are seeing the most aggressive human rights violations against its population and against migrants who pass through its territory, said José Raúl Vera López, the 2010 Rafto Prize laureate, in his speech at the Rafto Symposium on 5 November.

Eight Norwegian nongovernmental human rights organisations, including Amnesty International Norway, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and Human Rights House Foundation, showed their support to a pro-democracy civil Russian movement “Strategy 31“ by organising a demonstration in Oslo.

Norwegian Mission to the East invites to an open seminar in Burma: Aftermath of the Burmese elections and the road map to democracy: What role for the ethnic nationalities?

A court in China’s western region of Xinjiang, which was rocked by ethnic violence in 2009, appears to be stalling an appeal hearing in the case of an ethnic Uyghur journalist handed a 15-year jail term, Radio Free Asia reports. Gheyret Niyaz a 51-year-old journalist and webmaster was accused of criticizing the Chinese authorities in 2009 and was given 15 years in jail.

On 31 October eight Norwegian organizations will show their solidarity with Russian pro-democracy NGOs by gathering in front of parliament and claiming democracy in Russia.

With many African countries marking the 50th anniversary of their independence, 2010 should have been a year of celebration but the continent’s journalists were not invited to the party. The East and Horn of Africa continues to be the region with the least press freedom, according to the newest 2010 World Press Freedom Index made by Reporters Without Borders. However some journalists evaluate the Index for Africa as a “joke”.

Belgrade Pride 2010 began on 10 October in beautiful weather with a call for tolerance. The violence that erupted outside the venue of the march proved that tolerance is yet to be achieved. The Pride organized almost ten years after the last same event in Belgrade. It brings hope and can become a turning point for future dialogue in Serbia.

Chinese government attempts to block the news by blacking out domestic and foreign media coverage of the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s announcement awarding jailed human rights activist Liu Xiaobo the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. His wife, Liu Xia, as reports Amnesty Inernational, has been cut off from the rest of the world.