Anti-Slavery International and Environmental Justice Foundation demand that H&M and Zara boycott cotton from Uzbekistan, following an investigation that links Uzbek cotton to products from both companies.

A group of enlightened white men and women – who were playing the champions of freedom of expression and campaigning against censorship until recently – censored their own magazine.

The republic has become the most dangerous place in the Russian federation. It is a cycle of bloody atrocity and counter-atrocity that seems to have no end.

Some of the most under-reported if not unreported stories of 2009 – ignored or not covered or noted in the margin by the international media.