Tag Archives: Human Rights Watch
by GRAHAM PEEBLES No matter how tightly truth is tied down, confined and suffocated, she slowly escapes. Seeping out through cracks and openings large and small, illuminating all, revealing the grime and shame, that cowers in the shadows. The arid … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed, Somali
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Human Rights Watch, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, New York Times, Ogaden, Ogaden National Liberation Front, Ogaden Somali
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By Andrew Mwenda How the West is seeking to usurp Africa’s struggle for freedom and democracy using a humanitarian language Since the end of the Cold War, a movement to save Africa from Africans has grown and gained momentum across … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Cameroon, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Op-ed, Rwanda, Senegal, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Human Rights Watch, Indepth Africa Magazine, International Criminal Court, Joseph Kabila, KIGALI, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Thomas Sankara
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Internally displaced people in Somalia are suffering sexual violence and other forms of abuse, reports the Human Rights Watch (HRW) campaign group. The abuse takes place at the hands of armed groups, including government forces, it says. In the report, … read more »
(Reuters) – Ethiopia’s intelligence agency said on Monday it had detained eight members of Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist militant group who it accused of plotting to kidnap U.N. workers. The arrests were the latest in a crackdown on people accused … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged African Union, Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Counterpunch, Ethiopia, Ethiopian National Defense Force, Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, Human Rights Watch, Islamism, Meles Zenawi, Mogadishu, Ogaden, Ogaden National Liberation Front, Somali Region, Somalia
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By Graham Peebles In a report entitled Collective Punishment, Human Rights Watch (HRW) highlights the case of an innocent 17-year-old Ogaden Somali girl who was held captive for three months in a “dark hole in the ground” and raped 13 … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somali
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Tagged Amnesty International, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, Ethiopian National Defense Force, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, latest ethiopian news, Meles Zenawi, ndepthindepthafrica, news ethiopia, Ogaden, Ogaden National Liberation Front, ONLF
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By Human Rights Watch A World Bank board meeting scheduled for March 19, 2013, to consider the recommendation of its Inspection Panel to investigate whether the bank has violated its policies in a project in Ethiopia has been postponed to … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, Inspection Panel, Kenya, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, PBS, Politics of Ethiopia, World Bank
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By Betre Yacob. The human rights situation in Ethiopia, the most important strategic and security ally of the Western powers, has worsened drastically, according to the 2013 Human Rights Watch’s World Report, which summarizes the human rights situation of more … read more »
Posted in Article, Betre Yacob, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Abiye Teklemariam, Addis Ababa, Committee to Protect Journalists, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Gambella, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, latest ethiopian news, Mesfin Negash, news ethiopia, Somali Region
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Israeli authorities are detaining and then forcing migrants from Sudan and Eritrea to leave the country, a report issued by Human Rights groups charged on Wednesday. The report was published by the US-based Human Rights Watch together with the Israeli … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Eritrea, Human Rights Watch, Israel, Migrant worker, Refugee, Sudan, tel aviv, Uganda
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By Andy Ryan, ThinkAfricaPress site analysis Afewerki’s grip on power in Eritirea is showing signs of weakness. But will we see a coup, cosmetic reforms or even an uprising? Ever since 1993, when Eritrea gained independence and the national assembly … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Afewerki, African Union, Asmara, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, Isaias Afewerki, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Reporters Without Borders
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Government Should Protect and Support Girls Who Refuse Forced Marriage The government of South Sudan should increase efforts to protect girls from child marriage, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today, on the eve of International Women’s Day. … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Child Marriage, Forced marriage, Human Rights Watch, Marriage, South Sudan, Sudan, United States, Western Equatoria
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(IRIN) – Years after the end of South Sudan’s war with Sudan, the country’s women still find themselves on the front line – this time, battling abuse, child marriage, and a dowry system that commodifies them from birth. According to … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Economic inequality, Human Rights Watch, IRIN, Lakes, Maternal death, South Sudan, Sudan, UN Women
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by GRAHAM PEEBLES Land grab (and associated water appropriation), Oxfam states, occurs when “governments, banks or private investors buy up huge plots of land to make equally huge profits”. Since 2008 such speculation has vastly expanded; in 2009 alone the … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, Ethiopian National Defense Force, ethiopian news, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Ethiopians, Gambella, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Oromia Region, sub-Saharan Africa, United States
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A bomb explosion targeting soldiers killed at least two people on Friday in the restive northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri while houses and shops nearby were burnt, the military said. The two dead were suspected to be the bombers, according … read more »
“The M23 said they were going to free us, but instead they came to kill us. What kind of liberation is that?” M23 rebels and Congolese army soldiers raped scores of women and committed other war crimes during the rebels’ … read more »
By Daniel Berhane, Addis Fortune (Addis Ababa) column Last week, Bofta Yimam, a reporter for the United States’ Fox 13 News, caught some attention in the Ethiopian media. She is an American journalist of Ethiopian origin and winner of the Regional … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Addis Abeba, Eskinder, Eskinder Nega, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, latest ethiopian news, Meles Zenawi, news ethiopia, United States
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NAIROBI — The risk of political violence in Kenya is “perilously high” ahead of next month’s election, the first since bloody post-poll violence five years ago, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Friday. Local communities “are arming themselves” fearing possible violence … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Kenya
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Tagged Human Rights Watch, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Johnnie Carson, Kenya, kenya election 2013, kenya elections, Somalia, Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto
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Human Rights Watch is urging Kenya to crack down on rights abuses and enact promised political reforms ahead of its national elections in March. In a report published Friday, the New York-based group warned that heightened tensions across the country … read more »
Anita Powell, VOA JOHANNESBURG — With one of the world’s most liberal constitutions and a boisterous media sector, South Africa has long been the African continent’s model for human rights.But global watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) says events in 2012 … read more »
By Eric Reeves Three recent assessments missions to Blue Nile have powerfully expanded our view of the vast crisis in this desperate region, as well as of the better reported humanitarian crisis engineered by Khartoum in the Nuba Mountains of … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, Sudan
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Tagged Aegis Trust, Blue Nile, Darfur, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, Mukesh Kapila, Nile River, Nuba Mountain, SouthSudan, Sudan
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Three suspected Jihadists who were arrested in the liberation of Timbuktu have said they were tortured by Malian soldiers who used a method similar to waterboarding. There are also reports of child soldiers being used by the Malian army. The … read more »
Posted in Mali, West Africa
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Tagged Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Libya, Mali, malian news, Military of Mali, Sévaré, Sharia, Timbuktu
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to immediately release funds to clean up lead-contaminated villages in Nigeria will save untold lives, Human Rights Watch said today. Releasing the funds clears the way for at least 1,500 children in urgent need of … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Africa Cup of Nations, Climate Action Network, ethiopia eritrea, Facebook, Football Nigeria, GoodluckJonathan, Human Rights Watch, Jonathan, Lead poisoning, Nigeria, nigeria africa, Nigeria Government, Nigeria newspaper, Nigeria politics, senegal africa, West Africa, Zamfara State
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By William Davison & Simon Clark, bloomberg. Zeini Kadir escaped at dawn, when the gates of the house in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, were open for morning prayers. Barefoot, she ended up at an agency catering to Ethiopian workers like her. … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, Ethiopian Maid, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, Indonesia, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Philippine House of Representatives, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United Nations
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Yosief Ghebrehiwet Western Mining Companies and Slave Labor in Eritrea [On April 21, 2010, I wrote an article addressing only one aspect of what has been going on in the mining projects – the slave labor used by the subcontracted … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea
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Tagged AMEC, Asmara, Bisha, Canada, Eritrea, Eritrea news, eritrean news, Eritreans, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, Nevsun Resources, People's Front for Democracy and Justice
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A woman who claimed she was raped by Somali soldiers and the journalist who was arrested for covering the story both made false allegations against the police, Police Commissioner General Sharif Sheikhuna Maye said Wednesday (January 16th). Medical examinations of … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Somali
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Tagged Burdhubo, Human Rights Watch, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica Sports, Journalist, Mogadishu, Rape, Somali, Somalia
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(TrustLaw) – Somalia has no tolerance for rape but the government will not intervene in a case decried by human rights activists where Mogadishu police arrested a woman who said she was raped by government forces and detained a journalist … read more »
The recent “carrot and stick” approach recommended by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to the solution of the Boko Haram insurgency should be taken seriously by President Goodluck Jonathan. Till date, among all our past leaders, Obasanjo has continuously shown concern, … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged bokoharam, GoodluckJonathan, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica ghana news, Jonathan, Kaduna, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian news, Obasanjo, Olusegun Obasanjo
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Farooque Chowdhury Hundreds of indigenous women and girls were murdered in Canada. To many, it’s a baffling fact. Recently, there were proposals in the UK parliament to expand the use of secret court hearings in civil cases. In Greece, migrants … read more »
An international human rights group is accusing the Eritrean government of using forced labor to construct a gold mine it jointly owns with a Canadian company worth billions of dollars. Human Rights Watch said in a report Tuesday that workers … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea
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Tagged Bisha, Canada, Eritrea, Eritrea news, eritrean news, Human rights, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, Nevsun Resources, Politics of Eritrea, Unfree labour
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Published in The Guardian Your report (Report, 10 January) accusing the government of funding the Liyu police force is misleading. Not a penny of British money will go to the Liyu force. We take human rights extremely seriously and recognise … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ethiopia, ethiopia news.ethiopians, ethiopian latest news, ethiopian news, Guardian, Human Rights Watch, latest ethiopian news, Liyu, Lynne Featherstone, news ethiopia, Pound sterling, Somali Region, Special police
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Demonstrators in Colombo protest against the execution of Rizana Nafeek. Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters More than 45 foreign maids are facing execution on death row in Saudi Arabia, the Observer has learned, amid growing international outrage at the treatment of migrant … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Amnesty International, Colombo, Ethiopia news, ethiopian latest news, ethiopian maid execution, ethiopian maid facing execution, ethiopian maids, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Human Rights Watch, Indonesia, latest ethiopian news, Rizana Nafeek, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan
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