The President of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD), Dr. Wen-Cheng Lin, today formally announced the results of the 2006 Asia Democracy & Human Rights Award. This year’s recipient, the first ever, is the Paris-based organization Reporters sans Frontières (RSF or Reporters without Borders), wh...
As Senegal prepares to hold presidential elections in February 2007, ARTICLE 19 has issued a report expressing concern about the state of freedom of expression in the West African country. "We are concerned by the resistance of the Senegalese government to adopt legislation that conforms with intern...
APA - Conakry (Guinea) The Guinean government has decided to ban "any export and re-export of farm produce which are part of the people’s staple food" for 12 months.
Le footballeur international ivoirien, Didier Drogba, a été désigné le 25 janvier à Genève (Suisse) Ambassadeur Itinérant pour la lutte contre la pauvreté par le Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement (PNUD).
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the Ethiopian supreme court’s decision on 26 January to reject an appeal by journalist Abraham Reta of the privately-owned weekly Addis Admas and send him back to prison to complete the one-year sentence he received in May 2006 for allegedly libelling three ...
