- Excerpts from the January 16 inaugural address of Liberia’s new president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who has become Africa’s first democratically elected female president.
- Statement by Singaporean democratic activist Chee Soon Juan, the secretary-general of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party, titled Defamation Suits Against the Opposition Must Stop” and issued on March 2. See the Web sites for the Singapore Democratic Party and a blog with the latest news about Chee Soon Juan.
- Excerpts from a resolution calling for “International Condemnation of the Crimes of Communist Regimes,” passed by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on January 25.