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The Norwegian Helsinki Committee, Human Rights House Foundation (Norway) and Human Rights Centre Viasna (Belarus) are deeply concerned by several recent arrests and human rights violations during the run-up to the Azerbaijani elections scheduled for November 6th.  There are strong indications that the violations are politically motivated. (04-NOV-05)
 

Last month, the first ACTS (Applied Conflict Transformation Studies) started in the Balkans. ACTS programme is designed for people who want to develop skills and wider competence they need to build greater peace and justice in their own communities and countries. Participants are working in fields such as peace, human rights, and development, or looking for ways to become engaged in these, or related fields. (03-NOV-05)
   

The Norwegian government is making a booklet to its embassies on how to support and protect human rights defenders internationally. The Human Rights House Foundation welcomes the initiative, and asks its government to ensure adequate reporting and transparency. (26-OCT-05)
 

Today, as the UN celebarates its 60th anniversary, and the world should have been able to mark vast advances in respect for human rights, Aung San Suu Kyi, the moral and political leader of the Burmese opposition, has been held in house arrest for a total of ten years since 1989. Even during her spells of relative freedom, she has suffered severe violations of her rights, including tight restrictions of movement. (24-OCT-05)
  

Seven dissidents, among them Lotfi Hajji, the leader of the Independent Union of Journalists, has gone on hunger strike in Tunisia. In a communique, the seven demand the introduction of freedom of assembly, opinion and expression, the media and information. They also request the release of all political prisoners before the opening of the World Summit on the Information Soceity, to take place in Tunisia in less than a month. (19-OCT-05)
 

The United Nations Security Council should urgently consider the human rights and political situation in Burma in order to address widespread and systematic abuse of human rights by the military government, Human Rights Watch said today. -So say we, adds Marte Graff Jensen (right), Informaton Officer at the Norwegian Burma Committee. (15-OCT-05)
 

After several years’ research the report ‘Dying Alive: A Legal Assessment of Human Rights in Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar),’ was recently released by the British human rights campaigner Guy Horton. Now, Horton travels the world to convince authorities that what he describes as the slow genocide of Burma is a long overdue case for the UN Security Council. Yesterday, Horton also visited the Human Rights House (right) in Oslo. (14-OCT-05)
 

The Human Rights House Foundation asks Georgian authorities in a protest letter to guarantee the physical and psychological interity of Mr. Ucha Nanuashvili, the Executive Director of the independent Georgian organisation Human Rights Information and Documentation Center (HRIDC). (12-OCT-05)
 

From the Norwegian Tibet Committee, a member of the Norwegian Human Rights House, www.humanrightshouse,org has received the following story, another example of violations of the human rights of Tibetan refugees by Nepalese authorities. As previously reported on this site, the situation for Tibetan refugees in Nepal is getting increasingly difficult. (11-OCT-05)