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When: Thursday, 29. October 2009 17:00 – 20:30 Where: Oslo, P-Hotels Oslo, limit 19 Host: Independent Democratic Kurdish Women’s association, Kurdocice Watch Chak, Female selection in RKR in cooperation with Integration and Diversity IMDI More info: www.kurdistan.no/1051085761/1256119918 Program 17:00 – 18:00 Dr Isamel Fahmi Mohammed Saeed Ass. Professor of Language & Literature Violence against women […]

A new report on State of Eritrea has been commissioned by the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights. Contributions were also made by other NGOs, including Human Rights House Foundation. “The HR violations are extensive and systematic, and the oppression by the authorities is total”, says the president of the Oslo Center, Kjell Magne Bondevik.

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has received confirmed information from reliable sources that Lobsang Gyaltsen, Loyak (right), Penkyi and an unnamed Tibetan were executed on 20 October 2009 under the supervision of the Lhasa Municipality Intermediate People’s Court for their alleged involvement in last year’s mass protest in the Tibetan capital.

“The Lasting Struggle for Freedom in Eritrea. Human Rights and Political Development, 1991-2009” report to be presented. A screening of the film
‘A Nation held Hostage,’ made in connection with the report.

The Human Rights House Foundation and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee deeply regret the Supreme Court of Belarus’ ruling to uphold the decision of Vitebsk oblast court against human rights defender Leonid Svetsik.

The Human Rights House Foundation has joined 17 other Norwegian organisations in signing a letter to the Foreign Minister of Norway raising concern over the current situation in Western Sahara. Last week, Moroccan authorities subjected a group of leading Sahrawi human rights activists to serious violations.

Several organizations concerned about the Romany’s situation have come together to require the creation of a Truth Commission (Sannhetskommisjon) to clue violations against Romany/Gypsy people in Norway.

Norwegian human rights NGOs wish to congratulate Dr Nora Sveaass with her re-election to the UN Committee against Torture. She was elected this week at the meeting of the States Parties to the UN Convention against Torture. There were nine candidates for five vacant seats on the ten member committee. Dr Sveaass was re-elected in the first round by 76 votes.

The Norwegian Burma Committee is lobbying against backing vicious practice of oil and gas companies in the military-ruled state. French Total, linked to killings, corruption and exploiting forced labor in Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar), must be pressed by the Government Pension Fund (Petroleum Fund), says the Committee’s Director Inger Lise Husøy.