America has become a pretty discouraging place. Americans, for the most part, will never know what happened to them, because they no longer have a free and responsible press. They have Big Brother’s press. For example, on September 28, 2008, a New York Times editorial blamed the current financial crisis on “antiregulation disciples of the Reagan Revolution.”

Five years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the country is still in disarray. The human rights situation is disastrous, a climate of impunity has prevailed, the economy is in tatters and the refugee crisis continues to escalate.

Cairo, On February 28th, 2008

Morocco’s journalists had a bad 2007 with plenty of nasty surprises, as the government continued to imprison journalists and seize newspapers, while insisting it was going to reform the press law. The king unsteadily juggled his desire to improve his image abroad with a temptation to curb the country’s independent media.

Journalists are among the first witnesses, and also the first victims, of the instability that plagues the Middle East. The political and religious divisions in Lebanon, the spectre of civil war in Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have deep repercussions on media workers, beyond national borders. The region’s chronic instability is used by political leaders as a permanent excuse to silence journalists, whose every criticism is seen as wilfully destabilising their regimes.

(New York, October 22, 2007) – The Somali government’s systematic harassment of journalists, its closures of media outlets, and its failure to investigate the killing of eight journalists have deeply damaged independent reporting in Somalia, Human Rights Watch said today.
  

Proceeding from the strategic plan of the Amman Center for Human Rights Studies [ACHRS] to undertake the legal review of the package of the laws of pubic liberties and human rights and of the ACHRS role of watching the development of the Jordanian laws that are in harmony with the international criteria of human rights and the humanitarian international law, the Amman Center for Human Rights Studies [ACHRS] launched its new website that covers the activities of the Jordanian House of Representatives. It is called the "Parliamentary Observer."