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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 ... Great Lakes of Africa, former president of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo, gave an indication of where ...
- World AIDS Day: Access to HIV treatment still a challenge 1 Dec 2009 00:41 GMT
... affirmative action and essential support in educating Nigerians about the HIV and AIDS epidemic while ... which has the theme “Universal Access and Human Rights.” said the nation also needs to critically ...
- Human Trafficking Ensnares Hundreds of Thousands 1 Dec 2009 13:04 GMT
... chance. Life was difficult at home in Nigeria and opportunities for young women were limited ... trafficking, estimates vary widely, notes the UN human rights commissioner's special rapporteur on human trafficking, Joy ...
- The Battle for Angola's Oil 1 Dec 2009 15:12 GMT
... GDP in recent years. Though Angola overtook Nigeria as Africa's primary oil producer in 2008, ... turning a blind eye to a country's human rights situation, for example — sets just the ...
- Background Notes : Cote d'Ivoire (11/09) 1 Dec 2009 16:34 GMT
... palm oil, pineapples, bananas, fish. Major markets--Germany, Nigeria, Netherlands, France, U.S. Total imports ($9.1 billion ... (IMF) re-engaged the government. Questions surrounding severe human rights abuses by the government during the presidential ...
- Violence Against Women - Stakeholders Call for Support 1 Dec 2009 09:39 GMT
... level of acceptability and public responsiveness to human rights issues, especially the protection of women against ... the protection of women against violence in Nigeria. The occasion with theme, "UNITE to End ...
- Fighting on 1 Dec 2009 00:51 GMT
... did not expressly prohibit secession and that human rights abuses committed in Kosovo by Milosevic's government ... authority as that of Serbia. Countries from Nigeria to Georgia and Cyprus to China, have ...
- Today on Svoboda: Train Investigation, Tymoshenko and Putin, Mayoral Elections 1 Dec 2009 07:22 GMT
... from decision-making processes, an independent United Nations human rights expert said today. The United Nations Environment ... Ogoni region of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, which has been plagued by local unrest ...
- UN to release ?Hard Rain? film with Bob Dylan tune on eve of climate talks 1 Dec 2009 07:22 GMT
... from decision-making processes, an independent United Nations human rights expert said today. The United Nations Environment ... Ogoni region of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, which has been plagued by local unrest ...
- Secretary-General mourns victims of Russian train bombing 1 Dec 2009 07:22 GMT
... from decision-making processes, an independent United Nations human rights expert said today. The United Nations Environment ... Ogoni region of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, which has been plagued by local unrest ...
- Is all this really necessary? 1 Dec 2009 10:19 GMT
... is for some of the world's biggest human rights abusers. In short, the Commonwealth is everything ... as Fiji, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nigeria? Why aspire to belong to the same ...
- Wan Condemns Journalists Attacks 1 Dec 2009 13:02 GMT
... list of Sub-Saharan African countries were: Senegal, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Guinea. Others ... policies, use information deemed classified or unveil human rights abuses. Police raids, abductions and imprisonments remain ...
- Nigeria: Group protests arrest of Saharawi rights activists 30 Nov 2009 15:27 GMT
... West African Bar Association (WABA) has urged the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders to intervene in the arrest and unfair trial of seven Saharawi human rights ...
- UN agency launches assessment of oil-contaminated region in Nigeria 30 Nov 2009 22:22 GMT
... in the public sector and effective exclusion from decision-making processes, an independent United Nations human rights expert said today. A deadly and highly infectious animal disease which affects cattle and ...
- The Courage to Challenge, Locals Doing the Nation Proud [analysis] 30 Nov 2009 10:23 GMT
... not seem to be the case with Nigeria. Somehow, the most qualified seem not to ... and national development. As secretary of the Human Rights Violation Investigation Commission, otherwise known as the ...
- 'Probe U-17 Over-Age Allegations' 30 Nov 2009 10:03 GMT
... Lagos — Human rights lawyer, Mr. Bamidele Aturu has called on ... for probe with levity, "otherwise coalitions of Nigerians against corruption and cheating in sports will ...
- HRW calls for gunmen to be prosecuted 30 Nov 2009 15:30 GMT
... gunmen to be prosecuted Published in: Legalbrief Africa Date: Mon 30 November 2009 Category: Nigeria Issue No: 359 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Nigerian authorities to prosecute those involved in sectarian clashes that ...
- Eq. Guinea vote to reinstall leader denying graft 30 Nov 2009 04:34 GMT
... - live in nearby Gabon, Cameroon or Nigeria, or in Spain, the former colonizer. About ... and subsequently collapsed. Despite all that, the human rights group Global Witness last week published documents ...
- Election 'merely a rubber stamp' 30 Nov 2009 05:20 GMT
... record is poor, and organisations such as Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders said this ... Guinea became Africa’s third-largest oil producer behind Nigeria and Angola, after the discovery of oil ...
- 'People vote for Nguema so they can survive' 30 Nov 2009 06:50 GMT
... - live in nearby Gabon, Cameroon or Nigeria, or in Spain, the former coloniser. About ... and subsequently collapsed. Despite all that, the human rights group Global Witness last week published documents ...
- Polls open in E Guinea election 30 Nov 2009 07:11 GMT
... seats in the nation's parliament. Equatorial Guinea's human rights record is poor, and organisations such as ... Guinea became Africa's third-largest oil producer behind Nigeria and Angola, after the discovery of oil ...
- Obiang on course for huge win in Eq Guinea's criticized poll 30 Nov 2009 10:30 GMT
... habit of suppressing opposition and violating basic human rights has continued into this election. In a ... Guinea became Africa's third-largest oil producer behind Nigeria and Angola after the discovery of oil ...
- Equatorial Guinea's ruler extends 30-year term in contested election 30 Nov 2009 19:53 GMT
... on car travel was imposed last week. Human rights groups describe the government of Equatorial Guinea ... in boats, suspected to be militants from Nigeria's unstable Niger Delta, attacked Obiang's palace. He ...
- Equatorial Guinea ruler extends 30-year term 30 Nov 2009 20:24 GMT
... on car travel was imposed last week. Human rights groups describe the government of Equatorial Guinea ... in boats, suspected to be militants from Nigeria's unstable Niger Delta, attacked Obiang's palace. He ...
- Rwanda embraced by Commonwealth 30 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
... includes other African nations such as Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. He said Rwanda had ... elections," Maja Daruwala, director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative told AFP. The decision was made ...
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