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The Norwegian Burma Committee (NBC) welcomes the news that Charm Tong, right, (25) of Burma has been awarded the Students´ Peace Prize for 2007, for her work for peace and democracy in her own country. Despite her young age, Tang is already a seasoned human rights activist, whose work has brought her to meet some of the most influential people in the world, among them US President George W. Bush. (15-JAN-07)
 

HRH F joined an Amnesty International-initiated appeal yesterday for the Norwegian contractor Aker Kvaerner to be investigated for accessory to torture at Guantánamo. HRH´s own appeal states that the detention camp has become an icon of injustice committed in the ´war on terror,´ undermining security and respect for the rule of law. HRH F further calls for the Guantánamo detention camp to be closed and for detainees to be charged and tried in full and fair proceedings, says Executive Director Maria Dahle, right. (12-JAN-07)
 

The Norwegian Burma Committee welcomes the release of the former student leaders Min Ko Naing, right, Ko Ko Gyi, Htay Kway, Min Zeya and Myint Aye, who have been detained without charge and at an unknown location since September last year. The five well-known prisoners of conscience are released shortly before the UN Security Council will decide on a proposed resolution on Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar). (11-JAN-07)
 

On January 23 the Supreme Court in the Russian Federation will decide on the fate of human rights organisation Russian-Chechen Friendhip Society. It will be the last domestic remedy that the organization has at its disposal to ensure that the court ruling on liquidation will be returned to the new consideration at the court of the first instance. The International Helsinki Federation and the Human Rights House Foundation supports the NGO´s call for help. (09-JAN-07)
  

Turkmenistan’s president Saparmurat Niyazov died this morning. He has been responsible for one of the most repressive regimes in the world. The Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) expresses in their press release today that they hope that the tyrant’s death will at last create a window of opportunity for the Turkmen people to freely elect a new leader and create a society where the respect for fundamental human rights is reinstated. (21-DEC-06)
  

Throughout 2006, ICT has received tens of thousands of signatures of support from people who have spoken out for Tibetan prisoners of conscious. The active support that these signatures represent has helped in securing the release of the Buddhist nun Phuntsog Nyidron and the humanitarian, Nyima Choedron. (18-DEC-06)
 

The Norwegian Tibet Committee is in cooperation with Amnesty International Norway and the Human Rights House Foundation today hosting the newly released political prisoner from Tibet,  PHUNTSOG NYIDRON. Since she participated in a peaceful demonstration in Lhasa in Tibet in 1989 she has spent 15 years in prison. Today, on the 15th of December, from 11 to 1230, she will be at the Norwegian Human Rights House to share with us her experiences, but most of all her hopes for a peaceful settlement of Tibet. (15-DEC-06)
  

The Norwegian Human Rights House will on the 7th of December arrange a seminar that focuses on whether we in Norwegian media have hidden xenophobia and if so: of what does it consist? Which consequences may it have? Do the media contribute to an unnecessary polarization between “us” and “the others”, meaning those of another colour, religion or set of values? These and many more are the questions that The Norwegian Human Rights House wants to raise with well-known media personalities and investigators who are invited to the seminar. (05-DEC-06)
  

On January 2, 15 years ago, the Norwegian Burma Committee was established to channel Norwegian support to the Burmese democracy movement. It was just a short month after Aung San Suu Kyi’s son Alexander Aris received the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of his mother. No one ever believed that in 2006 Burma would still be under the rule of a military dictatorship. Aung San Suu Kyi is still under house arrest. The situation is grave for her and the people of Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar). The need to support and strengthen the Burmese democracy movement is as urgent as ever. (01-DEC-O6)