The Norwegian Helsinki Committee is a non-governmental organisation working to ensure that human rights are respected in practice. We do this trough monitoring, reporting, teaching and democracy support. The Norwegian Helsinki Committee works in the belief that documentation and activities of organisations such as ours are vital to enable states to protect human rights in their own countries, as w
ell as in others. The Norwegian Helsinki Committee particularly works on countries in Europe, Central Asia and North America. For the past few years our international work has focused on states in the former Soviet Union and the West Balkans. The Norwegian Helsinki Committee was was established in 1977 and today has 25 employees, with a head office in Oslo. The work of the Committee is based on the Helsinki Final Act which was signed by 35 European and North American states at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in 1975. This declaration establishes that human rights are vital to ensure peace and cooperation between states. Code of conduct:
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