Human rights - Page 3
Chomsky’s optimism of the will
The mood of excited anticipation in the crowd is one more usually associated with a pop concert than with a lecture by an octogenarian...
Spearheading a Grass-Roots Movement for Change in Kenya
There were three times Ann Njogu considered quitting her work in human rights activism in Kenya. The first was when a woman walked into...
Liberian Children take to the airwaves on International Children’s Day of Broadcasting
Amidst a celebratory atmosphere and fanfare, over 60 Liberian children took over UNMIL Radio airwaves on this year's International Children's Day of Broadcasting (ICDB)...
Zimbabwe death row inmates unsure of fate
Fourty nine death row inmates in Zimbabwe’s jails live in perpetual fear as they have no clue when the executioner will show-up.
All 49 of...
Sudanese to access web freely despite sanctions
The United States has moved to ensure that Sudanese can exercise their universal right to free speech and information to the greatest extent possible....
Africa: Cleaning out armies’ ranks to protect women
The massacre of nearly 200 opposition demonstrators in Conakry, Guinea, in late September 2009 shocked Africa and the world. Beyond the sheer brutality of...
DRC: Prostitutes claim their rights
Beatings, insults, rape ... Prostitutes in the city of Mbuji Mayi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) live very tough lives. Rejected by...
Journalist Beaten By Guards in Semi-Autonomous Somalia Region of Puntland
A Somali correspondent was allegedly beaten by court security guards last Wednesday in Puntland, the semi-autonomous region of Somalia, according to a 25 February...
Congolese Groups Demand the Removal of Abusive Army Commander
Fifty Congolese human rights and civil society organizations, along with Human Rights Watch, lodged a formal complaint today against Colonel Innocent Zimurinda, a senior...
Nigeria: Police officers arrested for extra-judicial killings
A video footage released by Al-Jazeera TV, showing Nigerian police officers carrying out extra-judicial killings, has led to the arrests of about 17 officers....
Ugandan minister lashes out at Anglican cleric over gay-bill
Uganda's minister of state for ethics and integrity, James Nsaba Buturo
has condemned the pro-gays who today presented a petition to Uganda's
speaker of parliament requesting...
Southern Sudan human rights abuses denounced
An Independent human rights specialist, Muhammad Chande Osman, has revealed that the Southern Sudan government lacks the capacity to adequately protect it's citizens' human...
Morocco: The sorry state of freedom
The head of Le Journal Hebdomadaire, Aboubakeur Jamai, Wednesday announced his decision to go into exile in protest against the closure of his newspaper....
Zimbabwe: International organisation attacks Morgan Tsvangirai
Zimbabwean Prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai has come under rare attack from an international human rights group accusing his party of shielding
abuses by ZANU PF...
Counter-terrorism: UN human rights expert to visit Tunisia
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Martin Scheinin, will undertake an...
Controls on military assistance to Somalia must be tightened
Amnesty International has called for arms transfers to the Somali government to be suspended until there are adequate safeguards to prevent weapons from being...
Zimbabwe: Prisoners move around naked in squalid conditions
A recent report has revealed the growing state of hopelessness in Zimbabwean prisons as a large number of prisoners languish without clothes. The impoverished...
Matters of life and death in Western Sahara
Just weeks after one human rights activist cheated death by hunger strike, seven others have appeared before a military tribunal facing the death penalty.
On...
EU must demand investigation of Libyan human rights advocate’s death
The American Jewish Committee urged the European Union to press for an independent investigation into the death of a leading Libyan human rights advocate,...
Eritrea: National football teams thousands flee for dear life
The repressive and authoritarian government regime in Eritrea has suffered a new disapproval as its national football team refused to return to the country...
DR Congo: UN warned of military support against Rwanda rebels
U.S based human rights group has urged the United Nations Peacekeeping mission to abstain from supporting the military campaigns launched by the government armies...
Nigeria: Police and vigilante killings out of control
Nigerian hospital is reportedly planning a mass burial as its facilities are overstuffed with corpses being brought to them by the Nigerian police. The...
Uganda: Gays, HIV+ people will be killed, sympathisers jailed
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is pushing a bill that would impose the death penalty on HIV positive gay men. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 seeks...
Zimbabwe: Citizens are the Real Heroes
I am not a street activist, but more from the irritable pool of intellectual key-punchers who hope that Robert Mugabe and his cronies are...
Morocco refuses hunger striker permission to land
Stretchered out of an ambulance, her face covered with a turquoise blanket, hunger striking and human rights activist Aminatou Haidar returned to her makeshift...
UK delegation has audience with hunger-striking Nobel Prize nominee, Haidar
A delegation from Britain has met with Nobel Peace prize nominee, Aminatou Haidar, who has been on hunger strike in the Lanzarote airport for...
British Parliament tables motion in support of Aminatou Haidar
A cross-party group of British MP's today tabled a Motion in Parliament expressing “dismay” at the expulsion of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Amainatou Haidar...
Spain: Nobel Prize nominee dying for freedom
The hunger-strike of Nobel Prize nominee Aminatou Haidar has drawn the attention of the world to the plight of Western Sahara, but at what...
DR Congo-The Hague: Warlords killed out of self defence
Congolese warlords facing trials in The Hague for the genocide of villagers of the ethnic Hema, in the mineral-rich Ituri province of the Democratic...
Spain-Western Sahara: Hunger-striking Nobel Prize nominee sends message of hope to her children
Aminatou Haidar, the Western Saharan Nobel Prize nominee who has been on hunger strike for six days, has used a live telephone link-up during...