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  • East Africa: EAC to Discuss Residence, Free Movement of Labour 8 Sep 2008 04:32 GMT
    ... have a clause on respect for gender, human rights, good governance and rule of law; and ... not committed to negotiating and implementing the East African protocol. Tanzania had earlier, according to press reports, ...

  • Bashir attempting to evade justice! 8 Sep 2008 02:13 GMT
    ... al-Bashir off the hook. Last week, the Sudanese government attacked the Kalma refugee camp in ... alliance of over 180 faith-based, advocacy and human rights organizations whose mission is to raise public ... evidence of Rainforest deforestation within: Jakarta, Peru, Africa, Brazil and even in Western Canada! The ...

  • Evaluating the Democratic Party Platform 8 Sep 2008 00:51 GMT
    ... civil society that is necessary to uphold human rights and build respect for the rule of ... Korea and from Burma to Zimbabwe and Sudan." Meanwhile, the platform fails to mention any ... policies do indeed resemble the old South African system.) Though scores of countries currently possess ...

  • Libya: Remarks En Route Tripoli With Traveling Press [document] 6 Sep 2008 17:31 GMT
    ... managing the significant conflicts in places like Sudan, Somalia; Libya’s crucial and pivotal role in ... crucial and pivotal role in both the African Union and as a member of the ... significant numbers. And of course, there are human rights issues that I will raise as well. ...

  • Libya: Italy Pays Libya Reparations - Will Other Colonisers Follow? [opinion] 6 Sep 2008 15:39 GMT
    ... 2008 Last week, Libya became the first African country to receive apologies and compensation from a ... pay reparations for the civil wrongs and human rights abuses they visited on their so-called subjects? ... during their punitive expeditions against the various Kenyan tribes when they first entered the country ...

  • Rice arrives in Libya on historic' visit 6 Sep 2008 15:10 GMT
    ... of Gaddafi who has led the North African nation for almost four decades. She said ... oil and gas, adding that conflicts in Sudan and Chad could also be raised and ... commerce, science and technology, and security and human rights. The last US secretary of state to ...

  • Rice meets Gaddafi on Libya visit 6 Sep 2008 15:10 GMT
    ... U.S. secretary of state to the North African country in 55 years, is intended to ... mandolin as a gift. The two discussed Sudan's On Friday, he welcomed Rice in an ... told the news conference she had raised human rights cases in her talks in Libya. She ...

  • Sitta discusses plight of women, children in war situations 6 Sep 2008 14:30 GMT
    ... more vulnerable to sporadic civil wars in Africa. Sitta made the remarks in Bagamoyo on ... peace and security in Somalia. She said Tanzania and other African countries had a lot ... of sexual violence, displacement, assault and other human rights abuses, but also as participants, supporters, peacemakers ...

  • U.S., Libyan relations "off to a good start": Rice 6 Sep 2008 13:31 GMT
    ... U.S. secretary of state to the North African country in 55 years, is intended to ... mandolin as a gift. The two discussed Sudan's Darfur conflict, the Middle East, and terrorism, ... told the news conference she had raised human rights cases in her talks in Libya. She ...

  • Rice visit Libya, meets Gaddafi 6 Sep 2008 09:56 GMT
    ... US secretary of state to the North African country in 55 years, is intended to ... mandolin as a gift. The two discussed Sudan's Darfur conflict, the Middle East, and terrorism, ... told the news conference she had raised human rights cases in her talks in Libya. She ...

  • 02:55pm Rice visit Libya, meets Gaddafi 6 Sep 2008 09:56 GMT
    ... US secretary of state to the North African country in 55 years, is intended to ... mandolin as a gift. The two discussed Sudan's Darfur conflict, the Middle East, and terrorism, ... told the news conference she had raised human rights cases in her talks in Libya. She ...

  • Botswana: Male Circumcision Could Help Arrest HIV 6 Sep 2008 06:33 GMT
    ... that research findings in countries like South Africa, Kenya and Uganda have shown that male circumcision ... making sure the intervention does not compromise human rights. There should also be availability of adequate, ...

  • UN: Urge Chad to Free Child Soldiers 6 Sep 2008 05:51 GMT
    ... by the Security Council,” said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “The Security Council should demand that ... February, 2008 Chadian rebel invasion. Children in Sudanese refugee camps in eastern Chad are also ...

  • Rice hails opening on historic Libya visit 6 Sep 2008 05:09 GMT
    ... first leg of a tour of north African states, becoming the first U.S. secretary of ... and gas. Rice said that conflicts in Sudan and Chad could also be raised. The ... and technology, and most certainly security and human rights," said Dana Perino, President George W. Bush's ...

  • Rice arrives in Tripoli to meet Gaddafi 6 Sep 2008 04:32 GMT
    ... discuss, among other issues, the conflict in Sudan and Libya's "important" role there. Gaddafi has ... for Rice. "I support my darling black African woman," he said in an interview with ... Rice is also expected to raise some human rights issues and to push Gaddafi on the ...

  • Rice hails historic Libya visit, meets with Gaddafi 6 Sep 2008 03:38 GMT
    ... discuss, among other issues, the conflict in Sudan and Libya's "important" role there. Gaddafi has ... for Rice. "I support my darling black African woman, he said in an interview with ... Rice is also expected to raise some human rights issues and to push Gaddafi on the ...

  • Arms deal weapons "obtained honestly" - Thabo Mbeki 6 Sep 2008 00:52 GMT
    ... 2008 Address of the President of South Africa and Commander-in-Chief of the SANDF, Thabo Mbeki, ... the principles and practice of human equality, human rights, human dignity, and human solidarity. We are ... Republic of the Congo, the Comoros and Sudan, where it has supported peace processes aimed ...

  • Rice meets with Libya leader 6 Sep 2008 00:15 GMT
    ... called Rice "Leeza ... my darling black African woman," was hosting a dinner for Rice. ... helpful role in the crisis in Darfur, Sudan. Yet relations between the two countries face ... two countries face strains over Libya's poor human rights record and final settlement of claims from ...

  • Rice meets Kadhafi on historic Libya visit 5 Sep 2008 23:59 GMT
    ... -- the first to the oil-rich north African country by a US secretary of state ... was expected to raise the issue of human rights, particularly the case of a jailed dissident ... Libya's vast oil resources and conflicts in Sudan and Chad were other topics likely up ...

  • Rice passes hurricane news to Gadhafi 5 Sep 2008 23:29 GMT
    ... called Rice "Leeza ... my darling black African woman," was hosting a dinner for Rice. ... helpful role in the crisis in Darfur, Sudan. Yet relations between the two countries face ... two countries face strains over Libya's poor human rights record and final settlement of claims from ...

  • Rice meets Gadhafi on historic Libya visit 5 Sep 2008 23:25 GMT
    ... called Rice "Leeza ... my darling black African woman," was hosting a dinner for Rice. ... helpful role in the crisis in Darfur, Sudan. Yet relations between the two countries face ... two countries face strains over Libya's poor human rights record and final settlement of claims from ...

  • Rice meets Gaddafi on historic Libya visit 5 Sep 2008 22:59 GMT
    ... on a historic trip to the north African country she said was proof that Washington ... discuss, among other issues, the conflict in Sudan and Libya's "important" role there. Gaddafi has ... Libya, Rice is expected to raise some human rights issues and to push Gaddafi on the ...

  • Rice hails Libya visit as message to America's enemies 5 Sep 2008 22:34 GMT
    ... mercurial Gadhafi who has led the north African nation for almost four decades. She said ... oil and gas, adding that conflicts in Sudan and Chad could also be raised and ... commerce, science and technology, and security and human rights. The last US secretary of state to ...

  • Rice hails historic Libya visit 5 Sep 2008 20:51 GMT
    ... does play in the Maghreb, in the African Union," she told reporters during a Lisbon ... oil and gas, adding that conflicts in Sudan and Chad could also be raised and ... and technology, and most certainly security and human rights," said Dana Perino, President George W. Bush's ...

  • Alarm-Bells Ring at Upsurge in Fighting 5 Sep 2008 20:49 GMT
    ... their weapons and respect international humanitarian and human rights law. But the UN force, known by ... van de Geer just back from the Ugandan capital Kinshasa where he met with senior ... the US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, has spoken to Congolese president Joseph Kabila, ...


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