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The Burmese community in Bergen is extremely worried about attacks by the Burmese military junta on the Karen people in Eastern Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar). In a letter to Jonas Gahr Støre, Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, they request help from the Norwegian government.

Amnesty International presented the document, “No end in sight: The ongoing suffering of Somalia’s civilians”, in which organisation reviews violations of international human rights and humanitarian law committed over the past six months in the Republic of Somalia.

Amnesty International Norway calls the Chinese government to remove restrictions on the internet following Google’s decision to stop censoring internet search results in the People´s Republic of China and direct users to the Hong Kong version of the website.

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.

In connection with the annual Rafto Prize award ceremony, the Rafto Foundation hosts a symposium bringing together experts in the field to discuss human rights issues from different perspectives and disciplines.

The Burmese community of Bergen and the Rafto Foundation have a tradition to arrange an event in connection with Aung San Suu Kyi’s birthday on 19 June.

Hu Jia is one of thousands of prisoners of conscience in the People´s Republic of China. Some may know his name from the the People´s Republic of China campaign, organized by Amnesty during the Olympics in the People´s Republic of China in 2008. He is still imprisoned for having exercised his freedom of speech. Amnesty group at Voss has not forgotten him and wants to show that for his wife and the whole world by organizing a skiing trip.

Lidia Yusupova, a Chechnyan lawyer and human rights advocate, the 2005 Rafto Prize laureate, writes her own blog on Caucasian Knot, an internet mass medium covering issues in North and South Caucasus.

Theme: dissapearances! Does that trigger your imagination? Get going, the deadline is the 6th April!