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Okot Odhiambo, the deputy to the Lord´s Resistance Army (LRA) chief, Joseph Kony, has offered to turn himself in after being wounded in clashes with Ugandan forces hunting down his rebel group in DR Congo.

“The arrest of Laurent Nkunda, right, should be followed by swift steps to prosecute him on charges that he committed war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Amnesty International said today. Any trial must be fair and exclude the death penalty. If states fail to do so, then the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to seek to prosecute him. Since 2004, the ICC Prosecutor has been investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity in the DRC, particularly in the Ituri region, and has sought and obtained arrest warrants.

According to the Transparency International BiH Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre 2008 annual report, the dramatic level of corruption in BiH has a huge influence on the flagrant breach of fundamental human rights in the country and on the drastic relativization of basic freedoms.

During its meeting between 16 March and 3 April 2009, the Human Rights Committee is scheduled to discuss its future examination of the second periodic report of the government of the Republic of Croatia on measures undertaken to give effect to the rights enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

Today, 28 January, a memorial was held outside the Russian Embassy in Oslo for human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were brutally murdered in the center of Moscow on 19 January. In their appeals, human rights defenders and Norwegian politicians demanded the Russian Federation to take responsibility and lead a proper investigation into the murders.

Russian youth of service age have strong reasons to be unwilling to go to the Russian army, neither by conscription nor under contracts.

First Children Embassy Megjashi implements the campaign for responsible parenthood „Did you talk to your child today ?“. Six billboards are sending the message on responsible parenthood throughout whole Republic of Macedonia.

As the Kenyan government struggles to contain a growing food crisis by importing food and distributing it to the worst hit areas, many urban and rural poor are finding it increasingly difficult to put food on the table.

-I do not know where this idea of female genital mutilation being a remedy to HIV infection originated, but it is a strong belief here,- said Jacqueline Mogaka, an anti FGM/C campaigner in the area.