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- Citizens in Sweden Form Human Rights Group 1 Dec 2009 16:10 GMT
... Gambians in Sweden have formed a human rights group called HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL (HUMRA) ... abuses and violations in the Gambia and Africa as a whole. The group indicated that the ...
- Human Rights Group Pursues Rights of Girl Child [document] 1 Dec 2009 16:15 GMT
... During the 46th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Rights held in ... the 11 to 25 November 2009 different Human rights organisations presented their statement at the conference. ... AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS, NOVEMBER 11-25, BANJUL, THE GAMBIA Plan International and Institute for Human Rights ...
- 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. ... Great Lakes of Africa, former president of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo, gave an indication of where ...
- EU extends Niger talks deadline - sources 1 Dec 2009 18:12 GMT
... gave Niger for talks about the northwest African country's constitutional crisis, political sources in the ... Amadou, a spokesman for the opposition and human rights activist. A delegate is now due in ... with regional bloc the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS), which is also conducting dialogue ...
- Child Rights Experts Seek Closer Bond With African Commission 1 Dec 2009 16:15 GMT
... The 46th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights witnessed ... the presentation of statements by different international Human Rights NGOs and State parties during its proceedings ... during its proceedings held in Banjul, The Gambia, from the 11 to 25 November 2009. ...
- Country Elected As Member of the African Commission of Human and Peoples' Rights 1 Dec 2009 14:56 GMT
... Mohamed Béchir Khalfallah as member of the African commission of peoples' and human rights. The oath-taking ceremony was held during the ... commission last November 11-25 in Banjul, in Gambia. During that session, Tunisia's delegate has been ...
- African bishops send World AIDS Day message: 'the Church is second to none in facing HIV in Africa' 1 Dec 2009 10:16 GMT
... Accra, Ghana, Dec 1, 2009 / 04:32 am ( ... 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 ...
- Background Notes : Cote d'Ivoire (11/09) 1 Dec 2009 16:34 GMT
... Of the more than 5 million non-Ivoirian Africans living in Cote d'Ivoire, one- third to ... constituent unit of the Federation of French West Africa. It was a colony and an overseas ... (IMF) re-engaged the government. Questions surrounding severe human rights abuses by the government during the presidential ...
- Wan Condemns Journalists Attacks 1 Dec 2009 13:02 GMT
... report stated. The report said that across Africa, Heads of State and their friends continue ... 'terrorist' governments are Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, and Kenya. All these countries were named ... policies, use information deemed classified or unveil human rights abuses. Police raids, abductions and imprisonments remain ...
- Human Trafficking Ensnares Hundreds of Thousands 1 Dec 2009 13:04 GMT
... trafficking victims in Italy, the Association of Benin City Girls, to help more women escape. ... to stories like that of Ms. Aikpitanyi, African governments are stepping up efforts to combat trafficking. ... trafficking, estimates vary widely, notes the UN human rights commissioner's special rapporteur on human trafficking, Joy ...
- Speaker Renner Returns From Women, UN Meetings 1 Dec 2009 14:52 GMT
... She also attended a two-day forum of African and Spanish women parliamentarians held from the ... importance the parliament and government of The Gambia attach to the forum and shared with ... security is not a charity but fundamental human rights. He urged parliamentarians to legislate for well ...
- Ahmadinejad on five-state South American tour 1 Dec 2009 20:52 GMT
... Human rights activists demonstrating in Rio de Janeiro last ... left-leaning South American country, Bolivia and the West African countries of Senegal and Gambia, the presidential website ...
- Government Declaration on draft 2010 economic and State budgets 1 Dec 2009 10:50 GMT
... el Abidine Ben Ali, Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi presented on Monday, before the Chamber of ... process, public and individual freedoms, and deep-rooting human rights as part of the State of law ... its mechanisms, and develop co-operation with the African countries at the bilateral plane and as ...
- The Battle for Angola's Oil 1 Dec 2009 15:12 GMT
... was once known as the scene of Africa's longest-running civil war. Today, life expectancy around ... 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 ...
- I disagree with Hon. Joseph Nii Laryea Afotey-Agbo on Military Brutality in Bawku 1 Dec 2009 12:34 GMT
... necessarily represent or reflect the views of Modernghana.com." A tremendous amount of recent public attention ... the right to life and physical safety. Human rights are the articulation of the need for ... Moskandi1@yahoo.com Development / Accra / Ghana / Africa / ...
- UN launches $7.1 billion 2010 humanitarian appeal 1 Dec 2009 16:50 GMT
... | Society | Agriculture - Nutrition | Human rights UN launches $7.1 billion 2010 humanitarian appeal ... most severe, prolonged crises: Afghanistan, the Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, the Democratic Republic of ... the occupied Palestinian territory, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, West Africa, Yemen and Zimbabwe. The 2010 appeal is ...
- Guinea crisis facilitator admits difficulties in reconciling rivals 1 Dec 2009 14:31 GMT
... who was named the facilitator by the West African region bloc ECOWAS, met with an immediate outcry ... Sept. 28 clash, in which a local human rights organization said more than 150 protestors were ...
- 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 ... along regional and racial lines, with the African bloc sticking together against the old Anglo ... as Fiji, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nigeria? Why aspire to belong to the same ...
- 'Crushing re-election win' for E.Guinea president 1 Dec 2009 11:31 GMT
... Obiang Nguema, who has run the oil-rich west African nation with an iron hand for three decades, ... in this year's election. The New York-based Human Rights Watch has cast doubt on the credibility ...
- Nguema wins re-election 1 Dec 2009 12:36 GMT
... Obiang Nguema, who has run the oil-rich west African nation with an iron hand for three decades, ... in this year's election. The New York-based Human Rights Watch has cast doubt on the credibility ...
- EUROPE/ITALY - International Day Against the Death Penalty: 1,150 cities around the world to abolish the death penalty and respect for human rights 30 Nov 2009 13:31 GMT
... abolish the death penalty and respect for human rights Rome (Fides Service) - Today, November 30 ... Genoa ...) and in Slovenia (Ljubljana); in Africa: Burundi (Bujumbura, Ngozi), Chad (N'Djamena), Mozambique (Maputo), DR ... (Blantyre, Lilongwe), Mali (Bamako), Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou), Benin (Cotonou, Pamacou, Save, Tangueta, Djougou), Rwanda (Kigali), ...
- Tunisia elected as member of the African commission of human and peoples' rights 30 Nov 2009 17:41 GMT
... Tunisia elected as member of the African commission of human and peoples' rights Tunisia ... of the African commission of peoples' and human rights. The oath-taking ceremony was held during the ... commission last November 11-25 in Banjul, in Gambia. During that session, Tunisia's delegate has been ...
- AFRICA/GUINEA - Talks between the junta and the opposition resume; group of Guineans criticize report on September 28 events which seems to be trying to provoke ethnic and religious conflict 30 Nov 2009 13:31 GMT
... AFRICA/GUINEA - Talks between the junta and the ... today, 30 November in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, between the military junta of Guinea ... least 150 deaths, arrived in Guinea. Recently, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on this ...
- Nigeria: Group protests arrest of Saharawi rights activists 30 Nov 2009 15:27 GMT
... The umbrella West African Bar Association (WABA) has urged the Special Rapporteur ... the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders to intervene in the arrest and ...
- The Media and Development 30 Nov 2009 19:50 GMT
... paper presented by Desmond Davies, Editor of African Prospects magazine in London, at the biennial ... London, at the biennial conference of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) at Makeni, November ... conflict that has given rise to massive human rights violations in Africa over the years. Those ...
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