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The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) deplores the closure of Jubba Private radio station and the arrest of three journalists working for the station in Baidoa.

85 human rights defenders, representing nearly all countries throughout Africa, were gathered last week to commemorate the achievements of the similar conference in Johannesburg ten years ago, and look ahead at forthcoming challenges. The ‘Joburg + 10’ conference concluded on the 23rd of April, with the announcement of an ambitious, confident declaration. Read the whole Kampala Declaration on Human Rights Defenders below.

Burundian AIDS activists and international human rights groups have condemned a new criminal code that criminalises homosexuality in the central African country. The Burundian Senate overwhelmingly voted against the draft bill in February, but in March the lower house of parliament reversed this decision, and President Pierre Nkurunziza signed it into law on 22 April.

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.

Respected Mr. President! As the representatives of the nation which was the leader of democratization in the Muslim world and created the first Democratic Republic with the Parliamentary rule, as the heirs of the ideas of freedom and liberal reforms, declared by our enlighteners and founders of the republic, which had a significant influence on […]

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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