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  1. Robert Menard, former Secretary-General of Reporters Without Borders (L) listens to a speech by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (R) during a conference entitled ' Peace, Democracy and Human Rights in Asia� held under the auspices of former Czech president Vaclav Havel in Prague on September 11, 2009, Other guests of this conference are Rabiya Kadeer, head of the World Uighur Congress , former President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Frederik Willem de Klerk and others philosophers and disidents.

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  1. Robert Menard, former Secretary-General of Reporters Without Borders (L) listens to a speech by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (R) during a conference entitled ' Peace, Democracy and Human Rights in Asia� held under the auspices of former Czech president Vaclav Havel in Prague on September 11, 2009, Other guests of this conference are Rabiya Kadeer, head of the World Uighur Congress , former President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Frederik Willem de Klerk and others philosophers and disidents.
  2. Chinese people use computers at an internet bar in Beijing on September 30, 2009. Press rights group Reporters Without Borders said on September 29 that a 'paranoid' China had blocked tens of thousands of websites ahead of the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic.
  3. Chinese people use computers at an internet bar in Beijing on September 30, 2009. Press rights group Reporters Without Borders said on September 29 that a 'paranoid' China had blocked tens of thousands of websites ahead of the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic.
  4. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (R) listens to a speech by Robert Menard, former Secretary-General of Reporters Without Borders (L) during a conference entitled ' Peace, Democracy and Human Rights in Asia� held under the auspices of former Czech president Vaclav Havel in Prague on September 11, 2009, Other guests of this conference are Rabiya Kadeer, head of the World Uighur Congress , former President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Frederik Willem de Klerk and others philosophers and disidents.

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  7. Bolivians line up to formalize their documents at the Bolivia's National Electoral Court in La Paz November 30, 2009. Bolivia's National Electoral Court has warned that over 400,000 registered voters may not be allowed to cast votes in presidential and congressional elections on Sunday because they failed to present documents, chiefly birth certificates, when they enrolled in a new electoral register earlier this year. Hundreds of people queue for hours everyday at national registry offices throughout the Andean nation in order to obtain their birth certificates that would allow them to vote.
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