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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!

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.