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- Wan Condemns Journalists Attacks 1 Dec 2009 13:02 GMT
... of Sub-Saharan African countries were: Senegal, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Guinea. Others are Togo, Niger, ... policies, use information deemed classified or unveil human rights abuses. Police raids, abductions and imprisonments remain ...
- The Media and Development 30 Nov 2009 19:50 GMT
... London, at the biennial conference of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) at Makeni, November 27-28, ... conflict that has given rise to massive human rights violations in Africa over the years. Those ...
- Taking Up Annual Report of Peacebuilding Commission, Security Council Members Call for Enhanced Cooperation between the Two Bodies 27 Nov 2009 15:55 GMT
... for the countries on its agenda: Burundi; Sierra Leone; Central African Republic; and Guinea-Bissau. It had continued ... in the areas of peace and security, human rights, rule of law, development and humanitarian affairs, ...
- In Guinea, Hopelessness After the Massacre 28 Nov 2009 17:32 GMT
... with brutal force. According to witnesses and human rights groups, the army first locked the protesters ... town called Forecariah near the border with Sierra Leone and that they are being run by mercenary ...
- POLITICS IN BRIEF 28/11 28 Nov 2009 04:01 GMT
... the Central African Republic, Guinea Bissau and Sierra Leone. However, the diplomat shared the same view that ... all the areas of peace and security, human rights, rule of law, development and humanitarian affairs, ...
- MDGs - Experts, Media Brainstorm in Ghana 26 Nov 2009 14:33 GMT
... to the MDGs in Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Nigeria is also not left out in the ... prioritising and protecting equity, democracy and diversity, human rights, labour rights, ecology, food security and sustainable ...
- Congo Army Helps Rebels Get Arms, U.N. Finds 25 Nov 2009 05:31 GMT
... gruesome civil wars in Liberia, Angola and Sierra Leone. It is a bleak picture of Congo that ... and instead led to widespread massacres and human rights abuses. The rebels, meanwhile, continue to seize ...
- Congo Army Helps Rebels Get Arms, U.N. Finds (Today) 25 Nov 2009 07:32 GMT
... gruesome civil wars in Liberia, Angola and Sierra Leone. It is a bleak picture of Congo that ... and instead led to widespread massacres and human rights abuses. The rebels, meanwhile, continue to seize ...
- Commonwealth states must repeal discriminatory, anti-gay laws 28 Nov 2009 04:31 GMT
... legislation, thereby facilitating HIV prevention. , British human rights activist Peter Tatchell argues: "For two decades, ... life imprisonment in Uganda, Bangladesh, Guyana and Sierra Leone. It is 20 years plus flogging in Malaysia, ...
- Militarizing Afghan health care 29 Nov 2009 06:54 GMT
... in Afghanistan than in any country but Sierra Leone. After the U.S.-led intervention in 2001, the U.S. ... with the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of ...
- Undermining Afghan health care 29 Nov 2009 10:35 GMT
... in Afghanistan than in any country but Sierra Leone. After the U.S.-led intervention in 2001, the U.S. ... with the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of ...
- ILO empowers stakeholders to tackle Child Labour in Sierra Leone 24 Nov 2009 20:50 GMT
... empowers stakeholders to tackle Child Labour in Sierra Leone The International Labour Organization (ILO) International Programme to ... meet international adherence to the cause of human rights, including child rights. She said Stakeholders have ...
- Protecting Child Victims in Sexual Violence Trials in the DR Congo: Suggestions for the Way Forward 24 Nov 2009 07:14 GMT
... Victims of serious human rights crimes require support, protection, and assistance when ... are incurring risks. Lessons Learned from the Sierra Leone Special Court The Sierra Leone Special Court was ...
- Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade 23 Nov 2009 10:34 GMT
... prosthetist Matthew Mirones’s project to outfit amputated Sierra Leonean children with artificial limbs, or Hnin Se’s ... further consecrate Islam as the source of human rights legislation. Whereas the future may reveal whether ... depth, include several outstanding pieces on Iraq, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, and Burma. And without ...
- Sierra Leone's corruption problem A mortal enemy 23 Nov 2009 19:20 GMT
... Sierra Leone's corruption problem A mortal enemy The government is having some rare success in trying ...
- Special Report: Bloody Shame 24 Nov 2009 17:33 GMT
... Zimbabwe’s Diamond Mines Lead to Rape, Murder, and ... based themselves in Bo and Kenema, in Sierra Leone, near the rich diamond deposits that stoked a ...
- Join UNICEF Ambassadors and World Renowned Photographers to Make a Photo-Pledge for Children's Right 22 Nov 2009 12:50 GMT
... country, making it the most widely ratified human rights agreement in the world. Great progress has ... in a feeding centre I visited in Sierra Leone with UNICEF. She was holding her toddler close ...
- What Is the African Union? 24 Nov 2009 11:31 GMT
... participation and good governing in Africa. Protecting human rights in accordance with the African Charter on ... Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia ...
- 20 years after UN pact, many children still suffer 22 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
... teachers, doctors, psychologists, cooks and security guards. Human rights activists acknowledge the progress. But they urge ... his third year at the University of Sierra Leone, studying peace and conflict resolution. "I would like ...
- Media Trust African of The Year Nominee to Be Named January 23 Nov 2009 12:12 GMT
... background including public servants, bankers, journalists, scientist, human rights activists and philanthropist, drawn from across African ... of US$20,000. Dr. Christiana Thorpe, Chairperson of Sierra Leone Electoral Commission, and Mr. Salif Keita, a musician ...
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