Tag Archives: Human Rights and Liberties
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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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 »
Despite a terrible human rights record, Ethiopia has joined the UN’s Human Rights Council. Laetitia Bader reports. On 1 January 2013, Ethiopia took up its seat on the United Nations Human rights Council. The uncontested election – Africa put forward … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Human Rights and Liberties, Indepth Africa Magazine, Laetitia Bader, Meles Zenawi, United Nations, United Nations Human Rights Council
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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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Hakima Abbas If aid is not in the interests of African peoples’, why would aid conditionality be a tool for African social justice? LGBTIQ Africans are currently at the crux of an ever-increasing conservative (dare I say fascist) assault perpetuated … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African news, African people, Human Rights and Liberties, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, LGBT, LGBTI, Nigeria soccer news, United States, United States of America, West
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Kinshasa – A Congolese rights group says at least 19 children and six pregnant women died from acute malnutrition and lack of medicine after a feared warlord returned to the southeast. Another 1 000 children examined by the African Association … read more »
September 12, 2011 by benim
Lilongwe – Malawi’s Human Rights Commission on Monday accused President Bingu wa Mutharika of inciting violence against critics that has led to petrol bomb attacks on the properties of two leading activists. Mutharika riled activists when he threatened attacks against … read more »
An Ivory Coast official says authorities have freed three French nationals who were arrested over the weekend. Military spokesman Lt. Jean-Marc Tago refused to elaborate Monday on the circumstances of their arrest. A diplomat who asked not to be named … read more »
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Human rights groups have denounced a climate of fear in Gambia claiming disappearances, killings and torture go unpunished, as President Yayha Jammeh marks 17 years in power on Friday. “President Jammeh marks July 22 each year as ?Freedom Day? and … read more »
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Constitutional reform crafted by Morocco’s king protects human rights better but won’t amount to much unless the state apologises for past abuses and holds to account those responsible, a top rights group said. The Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH) also … read more »
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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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About 150 people protested in the centre of the Tunisian capital on Sunday, demanding the release of Samir Feriani, a police employee who was jailed after he publicly criticised the Interior Ministry. The protesters, who gathered outside the Interior Ministry … read more »
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Rabat – Members of parliament in Morocco back a parliamentary probe into a secret detention centre near Rabat, a senior politician announced on Monday, a day after a demonstration by youths wanting it closed. “We are favourable to opening a … read more »
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February 25, 2011 by benim
Kinshasa – A witness in the trial of eight police officers accused of the murder of a Democratic Republic of Congo human rights activist on Thursday said locals told him they saw officers transport and then abandon Floribert Chebeya’s body. … read more »
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October 23, 2010 by benim
The Ivory Coast is preoccupied with political developments while hundreds of women are gang-raped in the country, Human Rights Watch said. The rights group in a 72-page report on the Ivory Coast accused authorities of failing to respond, prosecute and … read more »
Posted in Abuse, Cote d'Ivoire, Special Reports, West Africa, Women
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Tagged Africa news, Corinne Dufka, Côte d'Ivoire, Human Rights and Liberties, Human Rights Watch, Indepth Africa, Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, United Nations, West Africa
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October 18, 2010 by benim
Ethiopian government freed leaders and members of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) on Saturday in accordance with the recent peace agreement signed between the Ethiopian government and the ONLF, the Somali regional state prison commission said, according to ENA. … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, Africannewslive, Ethiopia, Ethiopian government, Human Rights and Liberties, Indepth Africa, Ogaden National Liberation Front, Politics of Ethiopia, Prison, Somalia
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