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Yesterday, the Britain-based Burma Campaign UK launched a campaign to drive the world’s fourth largest oil company, the French giant Total, out of Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar). Total openly cooperates with the military regime in Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar), particularly on a gas project in Yadana in the south of the country. Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has condemned the French company. From the outset, the campaign is supported by 41 organisations, among them Norwegian Church Aid; The Future in our Hands; and the Norwegian Burma Committee, a member organisation of the Oslo Human Rights House.

Amnesty and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee invites you to a charity screening of “Hotel Rwanda” in Oslo 27 February. The main question of the film is: How can genocide and crimes against humanity be stopped? (14-FEB-04)
 

Representatives of the Ukrainian newborn democracy expressed optimism at a seminar hosted by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs this morning. (10-FEB-05)
 

-According to Human Rights Watch´s recently released annual report for 2004, Burma is still one of the world?´s most repressive regimes, says Aase Sand of the Norwegian Burma Committee, one of the member organisations of the Human Rights House in Oslo. -Burma still has the highest number of child soldiers in the world and continues to hold approximately 1300 political prisoners, says Sand. (2-FEB-05)
 

Niels Jacob Harbitz, HRH’s Project Manager for East Africa, has been selected to take part in an advanced course in conflict and war, humanitarian crisis and relief operation journalism, co-ordinated and funded by the United Nations Development Programme. Commencing in Copenhagen, the course will move on to Khartoum and, unless the scurity situation prohibits, take its participants straight to Darfur. (2-FEB-05) 
 

Executive Director Maria Dahle and Project Manager Niels Jacob Harbitz will attend the sixth international conference on the human rights and refugees’ situation in North Korea, to take place in Seoul, South Korea, 14 – 16 February. -Our presence at the conference is to be seen as part of our preparations to co-host next years’ conference with the Egil Rafto Human Rights House in Bergen, says Dahle. (1-FEB-05)
   

Seventeen organizations from the Norwegian NGO Forum have made recommendations on human rights issues which the Norwegian Government should focus on in this year´s meeting in the UN Human Rights Commission. It covers six countries – Colombia, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation including the Republic of the Chechen Republic, Republic of the Sudan, Tunisia, and  Uganda – as well as five topics:  Counter-terrorism and human rights, Impunity, Indigenous peoples rights, Integrated missions, and UN human rights norms for business. (28-JAN-05)
 

Professor Theo van Boven has been awarded the Lisl and Leo Eitinger Prize; the University of Oslo´ Human Rights Prize, for his long, beneficial efforts to eradicate  torture, disappearances and other serious violations of human rights. Van Boven has worked for the UN, for the Christian World Council and for numerous non-governmental organisations. (21-JAN-05)
 

– The situation for human rights defenders in Tunisia is extremely difficult. They are being monitored around the clock and are constantly being harassed by the authorities, says Carl Morten Iversen, Secretary General of the Norwegian PEN, who returned from Tunisia yesterday. (20-JAN-05)