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Two out of three employers in the Republic of Poland check their subordinates’ e-mail correspondence and monitor their computers. It often occurs that employers check their employees’ sobriety each day using a breathalyzer, and not only when circumstances indicate such a necessity. At the same time, very few of them inform employees about the methods of monitoring their work.(14-JAN-08)
 

For 17 years the people of Western Sahara have waited for a solution to the territorial conflict with Morocco. The promise to give the Sahrawies a possibility to decide over their future through a referendum has not been kept. Polisario, Western Sahara´s independence movement, is considering leaving the negotiation table and returning to war. (14-JAN-08)
 

The conflict between Western Sahara´s independence movement Polisario and Morocco has reached its most critical point since the ceasefire in 1991, writes Tom Varghese, right, former leader of the Rafto Foundation´s student group. Rising tensions, a deteriorating humanitarian situation and a diplomatic deadlock are nurturing a steadily growing fraction within Polisario, pressuring the current leadership to return to arms. (14-JAN-08)
 

The Kenyan government should urgently and publicly order the police to stop using excessive, lethal force against public rallies, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch urged political leaders on all sides to call on supporters to demonstrate peacefully. (13-JAN-08)
 

On January 10th individual entrepreneurs held a mass protest action in Minsk. The action was carried out within the framework of the nation-wide strike of January 1-15. Protest rallies were also held in Mahiliou, Barysau and other cities. Entrepreneurs protest against some regulations of president’s edict # 760. According to the edict, since January 1st entrepreneurs are not allowed to hire employees except for their family members. (11-JAN-08)
 

On January 10th individual entrepreneurs held a mass protest action in Minsk. The action was carried out within the framework of the nation-wide strike of January 1-15. Protest rallies were also held in Mahiliou, Barysau and other cities. Entrepreneurs protest against some regulations of president’s edict # 760. According to the edict, since January 1st entrepreneurs are not allowed to hire employees except for their family members. (11-JAN-08) 
 

A number of Internet-sites that deal with the active coverage of social and political events in the Republic of Belarus were fully or partially blocked. from the morning of January 10. The visitors couldn´t enter some of them. A number of Web-sites were opening too slowly. Most probably, the break was reasoned by the protest action, arranged by individual enterpreneurs (10-JAN-08).
 

The Tibetan documentary ´What Remains of Us´ will be screened at Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF). The film is also nominated to what arguably has become the festival´s most prestigeopus award, the Peace Film Award. TIFF will open next week and run from the 15th to the 20th of January. (09-JAN-08)
 

Faina Kungurova, a 33-year-old political activist in the Republic of Azerbaijan, member of Republic of Azerbaijan Democratic Party, died in prison of apparent starvation on 8 November after a month of stay in the prison. She was the first female political prisoner to die in the Republic of Azerbaijan. Not refuting the official charges of drug possession and distribution, the human rights activists consider her arrest politically motivated.  (05-DEC-07)