The growing concern of the United Nations on the Gibe III dam, construction of the controversial, has led the UN to address a request for urgent information to Ethiopia.

The Commission for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has given time to Ethiopia until the end of January 2012 to demonstrate reliably that impact assessments have been carried out independent and tribal peoples in the region have been properly consulted.

Decades of oil extraction in the Niger Delta have caused poverty, conflict and human rights violations. The pollution caused by mining activities has ravaged the lives of the people of the Niger Delta, has contaminating the land, water and air, contributing to infringement of the right to health and a healthy environment, the right to decent conditions of life including the right to food and water, and the right to earn a living through work. Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected, especially the poorest and those who depend on traditional sources of livelihood such as fishing and agriculture.

The Papuan pro-independence demonstrations organized capillaries next Thursday, to coincide with the 50 years since they raised for the first time their symbolic flag of the "Morning Star". On the anniversary looms because a climate of fear in Indonesia continues to brutally suppress any opposition derisory sentences and fines for the security forces responsible for violence.

Wave the flag became a symbol of the struggle for the independence of West Papua since it was first flown at December 1, 1961, is punishable as a crime of treason.