Norway – The Rafto House in Bergen
The Rafto House was established in 1997 and has become a vital nexus for human rights activities in Bergen. Since 2008 the Rafto Foundation has been operating as the Human Rights House in Bergen.
Human rights trends
Rafto Foundation worried about prosecution of Uyghurs
The Rafto Foundation calls on the Norwegian MFA to raise the issue of Uyghur asylum seekers sentenced to life in prison and long prison terms in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China 31 Jan 2012 »
Mexico: Reporter shot to death in Nuevo Leon
The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is appalled by the killing of Raúl Régulo Garza Quirino, reporter for the weekly newspaper La Ultima Palabra. The journalist was gunned down on 6 January 2012 by a gang in Cadereyta, state of Nuevo León, and is the first journalist in Mexico to be murdered in 2012. The WiPC calls on the Mexican authorities to carry out a thorough investigation into Garza’s killing and to bring to an end Mexico’s climate of impunity in which attacks such as these take place 13 Jan 2012 »
Rafto Prize 2012 - call for nomination
The Rafto Foundation is seeking nominations for the 2012 Rafto Prize for Human Rights. Every year since 1987, the Rafto Foundation has awarded the Rafto Prize to advocates of human rights and democracy 07 Jan 2012 »
Youth for a safe, just and human world - Belarus
Around 150 young people from Belarus and from the Norwegian youth organisation, Fantasiforbundet, joined the forum”Youth for a safe, just and human world” in Belarus from 3 to 4 December 2011 26 Dec 2011 »
Raul Lopez "Human work disposed as cheap labour"
Bishop José Raúl Vera López, the 2010 Rafto Prize laureate, is a strong defender for Mexico’s most vulnerable, and once again he gave a voice to their struggles at business seminar in Bergen on 3 November and Rafto Symposium on 4 November 2011 24 Nov 2011 »
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