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Карэспандэнт “Газэты выборчай” Андрэй Пачобут пакараны за працу падчас “незаконнага” з’езду Звязу палякаў. Два тыдні таму журналіст быў пазбаўлены акрэдытацыі ў Беларусі.

The Republic of Uganda People’s Defence Forces yesterday abruptly ended its three-month old military offensive against the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels in Garamba and started withdrawing its troops. Right, LRA boy soldiers pictured near Rikwangba, southern Republic of the Sudan.

-Journalists remain the most defenseless “fighters for a just world order”, the Russian Union of Journalists say in its statement pledging support for another Russian journalist being attempted.

At the end of the fourth session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group, a total of 64 states have been reviewed — a third of the UN global membership. Since the UPR began less than a year ago, the Human Rights Council has now reviewed the human rights record of more states than its predecessor, the Commission on Human Rights, ever did, including of states that have never before come under scrutiny by a UN human rights political body. In this sense the UPR is a true innovation, concludes Amnesty International’s International Secretariat in a recent public document.

International Press Institute and the South East Europe Media Organisation urge the Serbian justice minister to intensify investigation into unsolved 10 year old case of killing of the editor Slavko Curuvija, right.

“Shqip Media” newspaper journalists were stopped and searched by police on their way to cover election campaign in FYR Macedonia. The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) condemns the Macedonian police action against a group of journalists from Albania.

More than a half of all NGOs, which actually function in the Republic of Belarus, are unregistered. It means their activists work under the “sword of Damocles”, risking criminal prosecution every day. Still, they encounter a great deal of trouble in attempts to legalise their activities.

Пасля чатырохгадовага перапынку 6-7 сакавіка ў Менску прайшла Асамблея няўрадавых арганізацыяў. Мерапрыемства сталася форумам для абмеркавання праблем трэцяга сектару ў Беларусі. Прапануем чытачам агляд спектру думак на гэтую тэму.

On 11 March 2009, the mayor of Likasi, Denis Kalondji Ngoy, ordered the closure of Community Radio of Katanga (RCK) and Radiotélévision Likasi 4 (RTL4). The mayor’s decision was supported by the provincial authorities of Katanga. On 12 March, journalists from the two independent media outlets, who had been threatened and pressured for several days, finally agreed to comply with the mayor’s decision. A third media outlet, All Gospel Radio (RPE) also received orders to close. RPE host Gilbert Nawezi has been ordered off the airways since last week.