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UN expert to assess human rights situation in Eritrea through neighbou...

April 12, 2013 1 comment

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 11, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Eritrea, Beedwantee Keetharuth, today regretted that the...

AFISMA human rights observers arrive in Mali

April 7, 2013 no comments

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, – African Press Organization (APO) –As part of the implementation of the decisions of the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) and the Authority of the Eco...

European Parliament to report on human rights situation in Western Sah...

January 21, 2013 no comments

“Dr Tannock is not in a position to answer your questions as the report has not been written and dates have not been set yet,” the personal assistant of the recently appointed Special Rapporteur of t...

Crimes against humanity as Sudanese government’s indiscriminate ...

December 26, 2012 no comments

WASHINGTON, Carey L. Biron (IPS) - Reporting on the results of a two-year investigation, on Wednesday the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch presented findings that suggest that the Sudanese government’s ...

Nigeria to review Switzerland’s human rights record amidst risin...

October 25, 2012 no comments

Nigeria is one of three states (called the Troika) tasked by the 47 member-states of the UN Human Rights Council to examine Switzerland’s second report on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the h...

Saudi Arabia to allow women to compete in 2012 Olympics

June 25, 2012 no comments

Saudi embassy statement reveals country's Olympic commitee will oversee participation of women athletes who can qualify

No justice in Bahrain as Human Rights Watch says there are serious sys...

March 5, 2012 no comments

Beirut – Bahrain has routinely convicted hundreds of opposition activists and others of politically motivated charges in unfair trials,Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a new report. The government sh...

Activists to hold vigil in support of jailed Anti-Mutharika critic

February 17, 2012 no comments

Lilongwe – Civil society organisations, relatives and friends of jailed Malawi human rights lawyer Ralph Kasambara are set to hold a vigil starting tomorrow at Zomba Maximum Security Prison wer...

United Arab Emirates may be rich in oil but its human rights record is...

January 29, 2012 1 comment

Dubai – Oil rich United Arab Emirates (UAE) harassed, arrested, and jailed activists, and disbanded the elected boards of two of the country’s most prominent civil society organizations, says Human R...

Morocco continues attacks on Western Sahara’s population

October 18, 2011 56 comments

Morocco’s Human Rights record in occupied Western Sahara has always been poor. But since the peaceful protest by ten of thousands of Saharawis (Western Sahara’s indigenous population) near El Aaiun i...

Human rights body apply for inquest on dead student

September 28, 2011 no comments

Lilongwe – The Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has applied for a court permission to exhume the remains of University of Malawi constituent college of Polytechnic student to conduct an in...

Ban Ki-moon says even illegal immigrants are entitled to basic human r...

February 15, 2011 no comments

LIMA, February 15, 2011 (AFP) – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that migrants, even if they are illegal, should be afforded “basic human rights” in the countries they ...

President Ernest Koroma is an embodiment of human rights tenets and pr...

December 6, 2010 no comments

Imagine if it were the days of the late Siaka Probyn Stevens and an Untrained and Unqualified (UU) journalist wrote that the President was a liar just because he commissioned a project that sh...

Kenya to Present Human Rights Scorecard Before UN Forum

April 14, 2010 no comments

Kenya will next month at a United Nations forum answer to its human rights record two years after the post-election violence that rocked the country triggered by the December 2007 disputed President...

Rwanda Hosts Global Forum on Human Rights

January 4, 2010 no comments

Youth human rights activist from over 40 countries in the world have converged in Rwanda for a nine-day UNESCO regional forum. This is a milestone for Rwanda as it becomes the first country in Africa...

President Hu Jintao - China makes pledge to African countries

China Embarrasses Itself to The World as an Innocent British Man Is Ex...

December 29, 2009 1 comment

The brutal regime in China has shown the international community that it is the most vicious political makeup that the world has ever seen. The behaviour of the Chinese government leading to the exec...