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The figures profiled are a Saudi Arabian woman protesting for the right to drive, a former Iraqi Baathist who founded a minor political party following the American invasion and occupation, a former bureaucrat in the Iranian government in the early years after the revolution who went into exile and began publishing opposition materials, an Egyptian newspaper publisher, a Palestinian who worked with the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem and later founded the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, a Kuwaiti woman who worked on the successful effort to open the Kuwaiti parliament to women's participation, and a Syrian critic of his country's leadership.

Afghanistan's major independent monitoring group said it would start looking more closely at the U.

DATA management and monitoring group Brulines has appointed Phil Maud as managing director of its Petrol Forecourt Services Division.

Human rights abuses by Palestinian security forces are nothing new (as this recent report by the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group makes clear) - though now it's Hamas personnel responsible, as well as the PNA.

THE private equity industry set up a monitoring group yesterday to police new guidelines aimed at improving transparency in the sector in the face of calls for strict reforms.

The monitoring group will incorporate members of SEPA, Waterwatch, the Commission and Scottish Water.

In the more than three months since the truce was announced, 6 Israelis and 20 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group.

So concerned are councillors about the current absence levels that they are setting up a sickness monitoring group within council departments and are involving trade union officials.