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Дзяржава, якая найбольш пацярпела ад найстрашнейшай атамнай катастрофы ХХ ст., плануе пабудову ўласнай АЭС. Пратэстоўцаў супраць непразрыстых планаў ураду – прымушаюць змоўкнуць.

With a “low-intensity” war continuing in Sudan’s Darfur region, the joint United Nations-African Union force (UNAMID) has increasingly prevented large-scale civilian disasters, the mission’s chief said today. “Our UNAMID teams are working around the clock to prevent killings, violence and new conflict from developing,” Rodolphe Adada told the Security Council in a regular briefing on Darfur this morning.

Norwegian Parliament (called Stortinget) was due to host a luncheon for a visiting
delegation from the People´s Republic of China earlier this week, but the 20 April event turned into a
diplomatic standoff.

Non-governmental organizations Center for Peace Studies (CMS) and Regional Address of Non-violent Acting (RAND) express their full support to students from Zagreb and Zadar in their intention to point out the social injustice regarding education in the Republic of Croatia, by using non-violent methods.

On Saturday, 25 April, a symbolic ceremony marked the opening of the Human Rights House in Baku. Ambassadors of Norway and Great Britain, representatives from the OSCE, US Embassy, Swiss Embassy and the European Union as well as local human rights defenders, Turan Agency and American Bar Association came to mark this significant event.

24 prominent Azeri intellectuals, civil society and NGO leaders wrote an open letter to Ilham Aliyev demanding from him not to limit your speeches only by stating economic and social objectives, but to make public the specific program on democratization and political reforms, which would promote Azerbaijan’s speedy integration in European structures.

The Irish government’s plan to introduce blasphemy legislation may seem a retrograde step, but it is part of a broader global trend, writes Padraig Reidy

In Hakkari, where people are protesting against operations against the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), one child has died, and a police officer violently beat another child with his rifle butt.

A prominent political cartoonist, Mario Robles, of the newspaper Noticias Voz e
Imagen de Oaxaca in western Mexico was violently assaulted and subjected to
death threats by members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) on 19
April.