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Last Friday, more than 50 exiled Saharawis of Western Sahara, currently settled in Norway, demonstrated outside the Moroccan Embassy in Oslo, demanding the release of imprisoned Saharawian human rights activists and the end to the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. The Moroccan Embassy refused to talk to the demonstrators. (15-AUG-05)
    

As part of the marking of Aung San Suu Kyi’s 60th birthday outside the Norwegian Parliament last Sunday, Kaythi, a Burmese human rights activist presented the following appeal. -Please use your liberty to promote ours, begged Kaythi, on behalf not only of the 1400 known political prisoners in Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar), but rather for the entire population. (21-JUNE-05)
 

During his recent visit to the Norwegian Human Rights House in Oslo, Dalai Lama (right) willingly signed one of the thousands of post cards these days being sent to Aung San Suu Kyi, on the occasion of her 60th birthday 19 June. If the Norwegian Tibet Committe and the Norwegian Burma Committe had not been in the same house, Dalai Lama´s spontaneous, but hugely important act of solidarity most probably wouldn´t have happened, says HRH´s Niels Jacob Harbitz. (21-JUNE-05)
   

On 19 June, the charismatic Nobel Peace Prize Laureate from 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi turns 60. The Burmese human rights defender and democracy campaigner is under house arrest for the third time, and will on her birthday have served an accumulated nine years and 238 days since she was first refused to leave her home in 1989. For the last two years, she has been unable to communicate with the outside world. (18-JUNE-05)
    

On Tuesday 28 June, the Women’s Issues Group within the Norwegian Council for the Rights of the Kurdish People, one of the organisations in the Norwegian Human Rights House in Oslo, will host a seminar on the women’s situation in Kurdistan. The seminar, which begins at 17.00 hrs., is open to the public. (17-JUNE-05)

All Kurds share the joy that Iraq has had a Kurdish President and that Barzani is elected to be President in three Kurdish provinces in Northern Iraq. However, liberation in some parts of Kurdistan does not grant that basic human rights are observed for all Kurds, says Mr. Abdurrahman Heci, leader of the Iranian Kurdish party PJAK. Mr. Abdurrahman visited the Norwegian Human Rights House on Thursday 16 June. (17-JUNE-05)
 

On Monday 20 June, HRH’s Project Manager for East Africa Niels Jacob Harbitz will participate at a seminar focussing on the continued need for political change in the Republic of Kenya. The seminar is co-hosted by the Norwegian Council for Africa, HRH’s partner in our recent seminar on Northern Republic of Uganda, and FORUM for Environment and Development. Keynote speakers are Apollo Njonjo and Halle Jørn Hanssen. (16-JUNE-05)
  

On Tuesday 14 June, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dalai Lama visited the Norwegian Human Rights House and gave a press conference in the conference room here. -The wish for democracy among the Chinese people has grown so strong that it can no longer be silenced, said the Buddhist monk, who himself is the best example of just that. (15-JUNE-05)
 

On Friday 17 June, the International Society for Health and Human Rights, one of the organisations based in the Human Rights House in Oslo, will host a workshop on ‘Truth, Rehabilitation and Reconciliation’. With human rights activists visiting from Peru, the main focus will be on the relevance of such processes there. Speakers from both Peru and the Human Rights House in Oslo will contribute. (14-JUNE-05)