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- UN denies complicity in Congo human rights abuses after leaked report 1 Dec 2009 07:25 GMT
... UN denies complicity in Congo human rights abuses after leaked report The United Nations ... report charges that government officials in several African countries were working hand-in-hand with the rebels. The ... being trafficked throughout the region, particularly through Uganda and Burundi and on to the United ...
- If Uganda Executes Gays, Will American Christians be Complicit? 1 Dec 2009 10:53 GMT
... criminal penalties on homosexual acts in the East African nation would be made much harsher, and include ... throughout the world under the guise of 'human rights' and 'family planning.' " If that message ...
- Kenya Urged to Improve Treatment Access for AIDS-Infected Children 1 Dec 2009 08:13 GMT
... for children remains a distant goal in Kenya, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday as the world ... the situation in much of sub- Saharan Africa, where the vast majority of the world's HIV- ...
- African bishops send World AIDS Day message: 'the Church is second to none in facing HIV in Africa' 1 Dec 2009 10:16 GMT
... Day, the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) released a statement in ... 1. This year's theme, "Universal Access and Human Rights,” seeks to challenge discriminatory laws, practices and ... Cardinal Polycarp Pengo of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on behalf of SECAM began by stating ...
- Youths Return Amid Probe Into Kenyan Military Recruiting 1 Dec 2009 05:11 GMT
... Dozens of ethnic-Somali youths in northeastern Kenya, have returned home amid a parliamentary inquiry ... U.N.-backed transitional government in Mogadishu. New York-based Human Rights Watch said its investigations in Garissa and ... supporter of the Somali government. Horn of Africa analyst for the International Crisis Group, Rashid Abdi, ...
- Graft a Challenge to EA Federation - Kiraso 1 Dec 2009 10:13 GMT
... Market pact, an official of the East African Community (EAC) has said. The EAC deputy ... Framework, which is the foundation for the East Africa political federation. Good governance, adherence to the ... pushing for recognition, promotion and protection of human rights in accordance with the provisions of the ...
- Commonwealth admits Rwanda 1 Dec 2009 11:14 GMT
... admitted Rwanda as its 54th member. The African country was admitted at the Commonwealth Heads of ... A report in July by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) urged Rwanda to tackle a ... It also had the backing of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa and the host country ...
- IDP convention - now the hard work begins 1 Dec 2009 10:31 GMT
... to IDPs. Joiner called for international support. "Africa cannot do it alone; that is why we ... more are displaced in Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Overall, citizens in at ... Refugee Convention," the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said. "Until now [IDPs] have ...
- D.C. to Host 2012 World AIDS Meeting 1 Dec 2009 00:47 GMT
... a significant victory for public health and human rights," Katabira said in a statement. AIDS activists ... as Iraq, China, Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Sudan. Because of the travel ban, there was ... geographic area, the society said, adding that African-Americans make up 53% of the population of ...
- Darfur Radio Show Launched 1 Dec 2009 11:33 GMT
... Programme will overcome Sudanese censorship to deliver news on war crimes ... in this way. Future shows feature the African Union on justice solutions for Darfur; the ... specialist skills; supporting extensive in-depth reporting on human rights, good governance and related issues; disseminating fact-based ...
- The Kool-Aid Syndrome and Somalia's Fading Hope 1 Dec 2009 07:30 GMT
... in the epicenter of the civilian population. African Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) with the singular mandate ... as the Hagadera and Ifo camps in Kenya, to fight for the government against the ... of Gairisa, and one of the leading human rights organizations, Human Rights Watch. The mayor of ...
- To be equals 1 Dec 2009 00:52 GMT
... On a blustery beach in South Africa's coastal city of Durban, Dumisani Gumbi is ... has recently deployed an HIV-positive soldier to Sudan as part of peacekeeping operations in the ... huge. It has had to balance the human rights of individual soldiers with the collective rights ...
- The Commonwealth: Wider still and weaker? 1 Dec 2009 01:42 GMT
... ex-Portuguese Mozambique gained entry. Welcoming a French-speaking African state to the Commonwealth is a much bigger ... bite, as a promoter of democracy and human rights, or else it might as well shut ... of some notional democracies. They quote a Ugandan judge as saying that “in most African ...
- Look, no danger 1 Dec 2009 09:35 GMT
... South African troops with HIV win biggest battle On ... has recently deployed an HIV-positive soldier to Sudan as part of peacekeeping operations in the ... huge. It has had to balance the human rights of individual soldiers with the collective rights ...
- Is all this really necessary? 1 Dec 2009 10:19 GMT
... or the Sultanate of Brunei? Interesting that Sudan, Yemen and Algeria are also lining up ... is for some of the world's biggest human rights abusers. In short, the Commonwealth is everything ... along regional and racial lines, with the African bloc sticking together against the old Anglo ...
- Refugees deserve proper treatment 1 Dec 2009 11:52 GMT
... Israel is contending with a wave of migrants from Africa, particularly Sudan and Eritrea, entering its territory through Egypt. There are currently around 17,500 African refugees ...
- Rwanda - Kagame's Human Rights Record Faces Scrutiny 30 Nov 2009 11:13 GMT
... a number of recent books on Central Africa are focusing new attention on the current government's human rights record. In a debate which somewhat echoes ... Kigali's Focus Media that the report's author, Kenyan-born Professor Yashpal Ghai, "serves up... fare that ...
- Ugandan parliament considers death sentence for gay sex 30 Nov 2009 01:31 GMT
... AS A GAY Ugandan, Frank Mugisha has endured insults from strangers, ... years in jail - a scenario that human rights campaigners say will result in a witchhunt. ... a former UN envoy on Aids in Africa, said the law has “a taste of fascism” ...
- Gordon Brown caught up in gay rights storm as Uganda debates death penalty for homosexuals 30 Nov 2009 18:44 GMT
... caught up in gay rights storm as Uganda debates death penalty for homosexuals Last updated ... on the anti-gay law. But leaders of African countries, many of which have longstanding laws restricting ... and funding for them, advocacy of gay human rights and the provision of condoms or safer ...
- Report urges sanctions against Sudan ruling party 30 Nov 2009 06:11 GMT
... impose sanctions on key members of the Sudanese government for refusing to end violence in ... of more than 180 religious, political, and human rights organizations, backed the main conclusions of the ... next year. The former head of the UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur said earlier ...
- Catching Up With Neighbours On Gender Parity [opinion] 30 Nov 2009 18:32 GMT
... in the backdrop of the emerging East African Federation. It is imperative, therefore, to examine, ... if not elusive throughout the region of East Africa. The new draft constitution dedicates an entire ... the creation of new provisions for a Human Rights and Gender Commission. This is a major ...
- Nation Admitted to Commonwealth 30 Nov 2009 07:40 GMT
... Kampala, Nov 30, 2009 (New Vision/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- UGANDA has welcomed ... to scrutiny over their commitment to democracy, human rights, fairness of electoral processes, rule of law, ... as we welcomed its admission to the East African Community," he said. "This (admission) would further ...
- Rwanda accepted into Commonwealth only 15 years after genocide 30 Nov 2009 00:51 GMT
... the newest member of the Commonwealth. The African nation, scarred by the genocide of 1994, has ... rule of law, good governance, protection of human rights, and equality of opportunity and economic policies ... Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda in the East African Community, is a deliberate step to distance ...
- France and Rwanda restore diplomatic ties 30 Nov 2009 03:51 GMT
... break on Sunday, straight after the central African nation finally joined the Commonwealth bloc and moved ... governance and trade. It includes Rwanda's bigger east African neighbours Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Britain is ... widely anticipated, despite objections voiced by some human rights groups that questioned whether the country met ...
- Is Continent's Land Up for Grabs? 30 Nov 2009 15:25 GMT
... An apparent surge in the purchase of African land by foreign companies and governments to grow ... Madagascar's President Marc Ravalomanana in March. In Kenya the government is struggling to overcome local ... threat to food security and other core human rights. "The stakes are huge," he told Africa ...
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