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Under the presidency of Ahmadinejad, banning Kurdish students from higher education based on their political and religious beliefs has increaased.

‘It is a timely reminder that the junta intensifies its crackdown on activists before the planned sham election in 2010’, – says Inger Lise Husøy, Director of Norwegian Burma Committee. The report describes the repression, intimidation and harsh prison sentences Burma’s monks experienced after they led demonstrations against the government in September 2007.

A seminar with expert/ scholar contributions will be held in connection with the upcoming International Climate Conference in Copenhagen. (COP15)

Ahead of the global climate change summit in New York, 169 organisations, including the Norwegian Tibet Committee, appealed to the UN Secretary General on the issue of Tibet. They asked Ban Ki-moon to pressurise the Chinese President Hu Jintao to protect the occupied province from having its climate polluted and the Tibetan nomads from being evicted by force from their original areas.

Den norske Burmakomité deler ut ett reisestipend årlig på inntil 20.000 kroner til journalister i Norge for reportasjearbeid i Burma eller grenseområdene.

Controversial elections anticipated next year present an opportunity for change in Myanmar that should not be squandered, says the International Crisis Group. -No, they don’t, says Inger-Lise Husøy, right, Director of the Norwegian Burma Committee. -It is the constitution and basis for the election that is the problem. As ICG points out, the constitution will entrench military rule.

The Uighur Community in Oslo invites all sympathisers to join their demonstration against China’s very rough handling last Sunday of the local Uighur protests in the Xinjiang province, Western China, against China’s suppression of the Uighurs of the region. Allegedly, more than 500 uighurs were killed in the process of bringing the demonstrations under control. Similar displays of sympathy with the uighurs of Xinjiang will take place in a large number of places around the world.

-One day, this journalist is sentenced to death. Two years later he gets a ten-year sentence. We reiterate our call for his immediate release.-Reporters without Borders

A new report by the independent Russian HR organisation Memorial on the human rights situation in the Chechen Republic and Ingushetia concludes that the situation in both republics have gone from bad to worse in the last 18 months. More people are getting abducted and killed, fewer dare to report these incidents, and women’s rights are constantly violated, the report concludes. Right, Svetlana Gannushkina of Memorial.