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If you or anyone you know wishes to learn a little bit more about Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar), this is the best gift this Xmas. But be quick, the Norwegian Burma Committee sells the book ´Prisoners in their own country´ at a reduced price only until its official release in a few weeks´ time. At the heart of the book stand two peace prize laureates; Aung San Suu Kyi and Min Ko Naing. (10-NOV-06)
 

On Thursday 23 November, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) hosts a seminar at the Human Rights House in Oslo, asking such crucial questions as: How do Russian journalists experience their everyday working conditions? Was the murder of Anna Politkovskaya a unique incident? What can Norwegian journalists do to support their colleagues in Russia? (10-NOV-06)
 

The Norwegian Council for the Rights of the Kurds (RKR) has released another issue of its magazine ´Tema Kurdistan ,´ this time focussing on the dual pressure for democratization and increased respect for human rights that Republic of Turkey is subjected to these days, both from within, most notably over the Kurdish issue, and from outside, where the EU question remains the most dofficult to answer. In this issue, says its editor Liv Kjølseth, right, the authors of many of the articles argue in favour of a stronger emphasis on the Kurdish issue within the EU. (09-NOV-06)
 

Today, the Norwegian Tibet Committe passes on a link to a cartoon made and distributed by the previously introduced (09-OCT-06) Race for Tibet campaign. The cartoon can be found here, http://www.racefortibet.org/ , at the Race for Tibet website. Race for Tibet is established to protest against China´s occupation and massive human rights violations towards Tibet in the build-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. (02-NOV-06)
 

-In recent years, the People´s Republic of China has gone from bad to worse, growing ever more indifferent or even arrogant to whatever messages the country gets, be it directly from various trading partners around the world, or in international fora, including the UN. What is taking place, is something close to ethnic cleansing, Rebiya Kadeer stressed during the meeting at the Oslo Human Rights House yesterday. (31-OCT-06)
 

24 october, the day the world observes the official establishment of United Nations, marks a sad anniversary for Burma’s Nobel Peace prize laureate and defender of democracy Aung San Suu Kyi, right. Today, she has been kept under house arrest for an accumulated eleven years since 1989. (24-OCT-06)
 

Yesterday afternoon, members of the Tibetan diaspora were joined by Norwegian human rights activists and other sympathizers in a peaceful demonstration in front of the Norwegian Parliament drawing attention to the 30 September shooting of Tibetan refugees by Chinese border guards as they tried to cross over to Nepal. See the pictures from the demonstration and read Amnesty International´s urgent action appeal below. (24-OCT-06)
 

“The Human Rights House Foundation submits this letter to you in order to express our deep concern for the five human rights defenders who were brutally attacked before the planned picket in Nazran, organized in memory of Anna Politkovskaya 16 October 2006”. Thus begins HRH-F’s protest letter to President Murat Magomedovich Zyazikov, the President of Ingushetia, right, after the 16 October attack in the capital Nazran. (20-OCT-06)
  

A new set of images received by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) depicts a group of Chinese police at the scene of the shooting of the young Tibetan nun on the Nangpa Pass near the border of Nepal on September 30. The images depict police and possibly officials gathered around the body the day after the nun, 17-year old Kelsang Namtso, was shot dead by People´s Armed Police while she was crossing the pass into exile in Nepal with a large group of Tibetans including children, other nuns and monks. (20-OCT-06)