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Long-awaited visit to meet Suu Kyi
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell visited today Aung San Suu Kyi, Burna’s opposition leader, who has become an international symbol of heroic and peaceful resistance in the face of oppression.
Lunch meeting with the Rafto Award winner 2009 Malahat Nasibova
Malahat Nasibova is a journalist and human rights activist. She is from Azerbaijan. Nasibova has been awarded the prize for her courageous and unwavering struggle for a free and independent press.
China urged to suspend disastrous pipelines in Burma
115 civil society organizations, including the Norwegian Burma Committee, and political parties from 20 countries today submitted an open letter to China’s President Hu Jintao calling for the suspension of oil and gas pipelines through Burma in order to prevent rights abuses and regional instability, avoiding financial and image risks to the People´s Republic of China.
Seminar: Violence against women, politics and language
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 […]
Eritrea: A forgotten people held hostage
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.
China executes four Tibetans over spring 2008 protest
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.
Presentation of Report on Eritrea
“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.
Regrets about Svetsik’s case
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.
Broad Norwegian protest against violations in Western Sahara
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.