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Service	Description
Court rules against government on Stop and Search	stopandsearch graffitiLiberty has won a landmark case against the government’s recent enthusiastic use of Stop and Search powers. The court found that current law is not “subject to adequate legal safeguards against abuse”.
Crushing dissent in Burma	Popular comedian Zarganar faces 45 years in jail for organising aid runs to victims of Cyclone Nargis
Democracy in Zimbabwe - by SMS!	Thanks to the innovative and open source Frontline SMS system, pro-democracy e-activists at Kubatana have managed to
Demonstrate against Israeli war crimes	Tell the Deputy commander of the Israeli Ground Forces what you think of Israeli action in Gaza.
Don't let the government deport Luka	to Malawi to imprisonment and onward deportation to Zimbabwe.
Egypt: Ministry of Education cancels celebration of Egyptian women's day.	The Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights is deeply saddened and extremely concerned about this cancellation and what it implies about the supposed support of the government for women’s empowerment and c
Egypt: Rights activists cry foul after arrest of protesters.	Human rights activists have condemned the arrest of at least 30 peaceful protesters at demonstrations on 26 and 27 April, held in support of pro-reform judges.
End criminalization of peace and human rights activism in Israel	Ameer Makhoul, director of the Israeli Palestinian human rights NGO, Ittijah, has been arrested by the Israeli Shin Bet and detained without any reason being given for his arrest. His home was ransacked, and he has not been able to consult with a lawyer.
END THE SIEGE OF GAZA	Protest Saturday 23rd February 2008, 5-7pm, Opposite No10 Downing Street, Whitehall, London
FERN and Sinkswatch	FERN’s European Union advocacy work is focused on protecting forests and defending the rights of forest peoples. They approached us in 2008 with a familiar tale of a website that was not keeping pace with the growth and change in their activities. More of their content was being written in French as well as English and the volume and diversity of their publications was lost in a system that didn’t index it usefully. We set up a new Drupal site for FERN with a French language sub-section, and a much more powerful publications search.