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Kamilla Lehrmann (30) from Oslo goes to Somali region of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia on her first mission with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). For the next six months she is going to assist people with primary health care in the MSF Wellness Center in the Ethiopian city of Imey.

On 11 November 2008 activist Mie Mie was sentenced to 65 years imprisonment for having participated in peaceful demonstrations. Amnesty International urges to send appeals and demand her release.

The new Head of the Rafto Prize Committee on 24 February 2010 became Siri Gloppen (45). Ms. Gloppen is a Professor at the University of Bergen and Research Director at the Christian Michelsen Institute.

Amnesty International calls on both sides to protect Afghan civilians as NATO and Afghan forces continue a major military offensive against Taleban in the southern province of Helmand.

Over the last couple of weeks, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) conducted a distribution of basic relief items to more than 35,000 people currently displaced inside Kurram Agency, in the Federally Administrated Tribal Area (FATA).

The international human rights body has called on Moroccan authorities to cease a ban on foreign travel against selected Sahrawi activists, saying it hampers the freedom of movement. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said since August 2009, the government has revived an arbitrary and repressive measure, which it had used frequently more than a decade ago to bar Sahrawis’ from traveling abroad.

Brutal contentions affect the Somali capital Mogadishu again. Since Friday, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has placed 89 people with shell damage to their hospital in the town Daynile. 66 of these are women and children. -This testifies a total lack of respect for civilians’ safety. All parties are to blame for so many being killed and wounded, said information officer at MSF, Siv Mjaaland.

Voluntary organisations, institutions and individuals worldwide are welcome to nominate candidates for the 2010 Rafto Prize for Human Rights. The Rafto Prize, awarded in memory of Norwegian professor Thorolf Rafto, is awarded to an individual or organisation that embodies and upholds the principles of the Human Rights Charter through activism or engagement.

The prize will be delivered to the Laureate selected by the Rafto Prize Committee and announced on 23 September 2010 in Bergen. A recipient should be an active participant in the struggle for the ideals and principles underlying the Human Rights Charter, or be an embodying symbol of these. A recipient may be a person or an organisation, and two or more recipients may share the prize.