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A former Macedonian interior minister who spent more than three years in detention while on trial at a United Nations war crimes tribunal has announced that he plans to run for president.

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On January 6, 2009, Ethiopia’s parliament enacted a new law on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that criminalizes most human rights work in the country, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch said that the law is a direct rebuke to governments that assist Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and that had expressed concerns about the law’s restrictions on freedom of association and expression.

Close to three million people are facing starvation as the country grapples with the dim forecasts of severe food shortages by mid-year. The shortage could get worse because of the poor harvests recorded last season, special programmes’ permanent secretary Mohammed Ali warned. This could also push up the cost of basic food items. Right, Masai children are among the most likely vicitms, as many among their ethnic group live marginally, and in some of the worst affected areas.

The December 14 assault on Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, camps in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, surprised many. The offensive came after LRA leader Joseph Kony, right, had rebuffed the international community three times in 2008 by failing to sign a peace deal with Republic of Uganda that had been negotiated over the previous two years. Those negotiations came to a halt late November.

Fifty people are feared killed and at least nine abducted in attacks on villages in southwest Republic of the Sudan, near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo (in DRC), locals said. Officials in the Southern Sudanese capital Juba said the men who conducted the 5 January attack were suspected remnants of the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Right, LRA child soldiers posing after a previous attack in Southern Republic of the Sudan.

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), denounces the adoption on January 6, 2008 of a law that considerably restricts the activities of NGOs in Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. -I am deeply concerned, denounces Eric Sottas, right, OMCT Secretary General.

The War Crimes Section of the State Prosecution filed an indictment against eight former policemen from Prijedor for their participation in a crime committed at Koricanske stijene in August 1992. The indictment has been forwarded to the State Court for confirmation.

Сустрэча ў ДПЧ выкрывае кантроль над грамадскім меркаваннем па пытаннях гендэру ў Беларусі і Літве.

A torchlight procession for peace in Gaza is organised in solidarity with the victims of the war in the Middle East. Everyone who wishes a peacefull solution for this conflict is invited to take part in this non-political peace demonstration, in which many civil society organisations take part.
Demonstrations will also be held in Bergen, Trondheim, Tromsø, Stavanger and many other places in Norway.
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News that six Gambian journalists have been jailed for two years for “ridiculing the head of state” signal that the country has become one of Africa’s worst abusers of press freedom. The convictions could effectively be the end of the country’s independent press.