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June 16, 2005

Kenya – Continued need for political change

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)
  

June 15, 2005

Dalai Lama visited the Human Rights House

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)
 

June 14, 2005

Truth, Rehabilitation and Reconciliation. The Peruvian case

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)
 

June 13, 2005

Amnesty International to host seminar on lesbian and gay rights

On 22 June, Amnesty International, Norwegian chapter’s expert group on Lesbian, Gay, Bi- and Transsexual rights will host a seminar at the Norwegian Human Rights House on how to empower the rights of gays and lesbians in Eastern Europe. Experts and activists from the region will blend with some of the key Norwegian spokespersons on these issues for what promises to be a thoughtprovoking and very timely seminar. (13-JUNE-05)
  

June 12, 2005

High profile Angolan human rights defender visits HRH

On 25 May, David Mendes, Director of the independent human rights organisation Maos Livres in Angola, visited the Norwegian Human Rights House and spoke to an open lunch meeting about the human rights situation in his home country Angola. Access to justice is a major problem, and leads to gross miscarriages of justice.
 

June 10, 2005

Uzbekistan: Human rights defenders targeted after massacre

In the wake of the joint Human Rights House Foundation and Norwegian Helsinki Committee demonstrations a couple of weeks ago against the massacres in Andijan, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee is preparing a fact-finding mission to learn more about what really happened, and the context in which this ought best to be understood. Now, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has broken the news that human rights defenders are being particularly targeted. Read HRW?s full story below. (10-JUNE-05)
  

June 9, 2005

If Museveni stays on, forget the peace process in the north

-Museveni is not interested in peace. For as long as he´s in power, there is little hope of having a real, genuine peace process between the government and the rebels in Northern Republic of Uganda. Our wsh is that the international donor-diplomacy community could speak out louder about this, said Jessica B. Nkuuhe of Isis-WICCE to a packed auditorium at the Norwegian Human Rights House recently. (9-JUNE-05)
 

May 30, 2005

‘Beyond borders’ – Ugandan artist’s workshop against HIV / Aids in Oslo

The African artist, Lillian Nabulime, will host a workshop, including a display of her powerful art, at the venue Smuget, around the corner from the Norwegian Human Rights House, Oslo, tomorrow, Tuesday 31 May. Nabulime treats the themes of HIV and Aids artistically, in both sculpture and text. She also works with women in similar workshops in her own country Republic of Uganda. (30-MAY-05)
  

May 30, 2005

HRH to co-host seminar on women, war and peace in Northern Uganda

On Thursday, 2 June, the Human Rights House Foundation and the Norwegian Joint Council for Africa co-host a seminar at the Norwegian Human Rights House in Oslo, on women, war and peace in Northern Republic of Uganda. Jessica B. Nkuuhe, the Deputy Director of Isis-WICCE, one of the organisations participating in the Human Rights House project in the Republic of Uganda, will speak, alongside many others. (30-MAY-05)