Ethiopian government uses a Spysoftware /Malware and images of members Ginbot 7 to Spy Ethiopians

Summary of Key Findings

• We have found command and control servers for FinSpy backdoors, part of Gamma International’s FinFisher “remote monitoring solution,” in a total of 25 countries: Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Qatar, Serbia, Singapore, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam.

Human Rights Watch World Report 2013 – Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Source: Human Rights Watch World Report 2013,  pp  114-120

The sudden death in August 2012 of Ethiopia’s long-serving and powerful prime minister, Meles Zenawi, provoked uncertainty over the country’s political transition, both domestically and among Ethiopia’s international partners. Ethiopia’s human rights record has sharply deteriorated, especially over the past few years, and although a new prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, took office in September

Can Norway show the UK how to prosper outside the EU?

As the UK builds up to a possible referendum on EU membership, people will be searching for hints at what life might be like outside the union.

And one country many Euro-sceptics are keen to point to is Norway.

Despite several referendums of its own, it has consistently chosen to stay outside the EU.

But that does not mean it has nothing to do with the member states.

Around 75% of its trade is with the EU, and its economy is booming

No way in, no way out? A study of living conditions of irregular migrants in Norway

http://www.udi.no/PageFiles/24116/20194%20Fafo%20report%20on%20irregular%20migrants%27%20living%20conditions%202011.pdf

excerpt from “No way in, no way out?” description of the Norwegian asylum procedure

The asylum application process: from asylum seeker to irregular migrant

“”The question is therefore whether migrants have access to information about rights and about possible outcomes to their application – also what a rejection could entail“”

“” .. Based on available information (e.g. Zhang 2008), most irregular migrants in Norway are rejected asylum seekers. Understanding the application process is therefore central in understanding how people become irregular migrants. In this section, we give a brief introduction to the way the asylum process is formally supposed to take place.

NEW ISSUES IN REFUGEE RESEARCH

Asylum, understood as ‘the protection that a state grants on its territory or in some other place
under the control of certain of its organs to a person who comes to seek it,’1
is a well-known

World Report 2013 - Ethiopia

The sudden death in August 2012 of Ethiopia's long-serving and powerful prime minister, Meles Zenawi, provoked uncertainty over the country's political transition, both domestically and among Ethiopia's international partners