Tag Archives: Advocacy Organizations

Clean slate ideology and Africa’s circular politics

March 8, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Messay Kebede What is wrong with Africa? Save for a few promising exceptions, why has Africa become the land where dictatorships, disrespect for elementary human rights, economic mismanagement, corruption, nepotism, ethnic confrontations, etc., proliferate and endure? This total and … read more »

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Namibia: A Need to Innovate Human Rights Activism

January 13, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Andreas E Peltzer, column WHAT is the task of a human rights activist? Helping victims of human rights violations may be the first answer. Now there are specialists dealing with perpetrators and victims of rights violations, which include law … read more »

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Torture: Africa’s dirty little secret

August 24, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

This is according to the chairman of the African Union’s African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, Catherine Dupe Atoki. She was speaking at a Johannesburg press conference yesterday at which she said there was a lack of political will … read more »

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Congo col. surrenders over mass rape accusations

July 8, 2011 by benim

U.N. and Congolese officials say a colonel accused of mass rapes in volatile eastern Congo has surrendered along with a large group of his men. Military spokesman Col. Sylvain Ekenge said Friday a colonel known as Kifaru surrendered with 106 … read more »

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