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The Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) strongly condemns the lawsuit filed against Institute for Peace and Democracy Director Leyla Yunus by Minister of Interior Ramil Usubov and considers this step the beginning of a campaign of repression to silence human rights defenders.

A huge Norwegian research vessel has in secret travelled to the coast of occupied Western Sahara. This weekend the Norwegian company Fugro-Geoteam started a controversial operation to carry out oil exploration, in defiance of the advice of the UN and the Norwegian government.

The dispute between Athens and Skopje over Macedonia’s name puts at risk the European Union (EU) and NATO strategy for stabilising the still fragile western Balkans.

Centre for Peace Studies – CMS supports the public appeal of Women’s Network Republic of Croatia along with CESI organization from Zagreb, to stop the killings in Gaza.

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.