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The nine year old girl run away form the orphanage “11 Oktomvri” in Skopje and managed to reach her parents’ home in Pehchevo. Her older brother (11) also run away home from the same orphanage, little before New Year’s Eve. The First Children’s Embassy in the World Megjashi emphasizes that the little girl and her brother were beaten and maltreated by the tutors in the orphanage.

On 26 January 2009, the human rights centre Viasna, which has been trying to regain its official registration since 2004, issued a statement calling upon the Belarusian authorities to abide by their international commitments and allow the registration of this human rights NGO.

Statement on Nasha Viasna registration On 26 January 2009 the Nasha Viasna human rights organization applied for registration to the Ministry of Justice of Belarus. The decision by the Supreme Court of Belarus on 28 January 2003 to liquidate the human rights center Viasna was an outrage against the freedom of association, guaranteed by the […]

-The Ethiopians have left Baidoa, bound for their border with Republic of Somalia,- said Mr Abdullahi Ali Madeey, a trader in Baidoa. Following the withdrawal of the troops from the presidential compound, the livestock market and the airport, the forces of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and local clan militias are guarding the main installations.

Dr. Mukwege, founder of the Panzi hospital in eastern DR Congo, was awarded the first African of the Year Award – an initiative of the Media Trust in Nigeria.

Rafto Laureate Leyla Zana attended the 5th international conferance on EU, Republic of Turkey and the Kurds in Brussels on 28 January. Zana, together with several speakers, expressed their request for real changes in the Republic of Turkey.

ARTICLE 19 and Privacy International (PI) welcome US President Barack
Obama’s announcement on 21 January, of new policies enhancing public access
to government information, in one of his first official actions as President. These
changes mark a significant departure from previous policies.

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Association africaine des droits de l’Homme (ASADHO), Groupe Lotus and Ligue des électeurs, welcome the opening of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo on Monday 26 January. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, right, is accused of having committed war crimes in the district of Ituri, Province Orientale, DRC between September 2002 and August 2003.

Зварот праваабаронцаў і адвакатаў, журналістаў і актывістаў грамадзянскай супольнасьці Беларусі з нагоды апошніх замоўных забойстваў у Расеі …

Шакіруючая трагічная навіна ўскалыхнула сусьветную грамадзкасьць і смуткам адгукнулася ў сэрцах Беларусаў!

While the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has called upon Russian authorities to protect journalists, the journalists themselves have appealed to the authorities for permission to carry weapons.

A group of Macedonian businessmen plans to create a “Freedom of Speech” fund to cover the expenses of journalists and intellectuals fined for slander against politicians, a prominent university professor and columnist said.

Bosnia’s top international envoy, Miroslav Lajcak, is leaving his post in Bosnia in the middle of a political deadlock to take up the job of Slovakian Foreign Minister, sending the international community into urgent consultations to identify a possible replacement.