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Ban Ki-moon urged to protect Tibetan nomads
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.
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Forthcoming elections raise false expectations, says the Norwegian Burma Committee
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.
Uighurs protest against China’s clampdown
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.
Kurdish journalist gets 10 year jail term
-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
Abductions and murders on the rise in both the Chechen Republic and Ingushetia
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.
Persecution of Kurdish Political Activists in Iran
–Although the Kurdish people consist of less than 15% of the Iranian population, they also make up about half of the number of people executed and have [been] subjected to political persecution in the past 10 years.–Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand
Seminar: Unjust and inefficient? Dublin II and the right to asylum in Europe
Nobel Peace Center and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee invite to a seminar and the opening of a photo exhibition ‘Waiting Room’ by Linda Bournane Engelberth.
The Belarus Road Map to Europe = the Road to Democracy?
The seminar will discuss the recent invitation from the European Union to Belarus to join the Eastern Partnership, and how this invitation can bring Belarus into a process of much needed reforms.