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The indictment of key post-election violence suspects drew closer on Thursday after International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked for the go-ahead to start investigations.
In July 2008 Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), announced his intention to prosecute President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan for human rights violations related to the conflict in that country's Darfur region. Less than a year later, on 3 March 2009, ICC judges confirmed that an arrest warrant had been issued for President Bashir on charges of crimes ...
Charles Taylor helped three major Sierra Leonean rebel commanders to reconcile their differences but such reconciliation was not for purposes of a military takeover of the country, the accused former Liberian president told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today in The Hague.
The Human Rights Watch has urged the Federal Government to investigate and prosecute members of security forces implicated in the killing of more than 130 civilians in Jos, about a year ago, and those involved in series of subsequent abuses.
With Namibia's parliamentary and presidential elections on 27-28 November, hype and obsession mount by the day. The assumption that democracy is about competition between contesting political programmes of parties seeking to convince voters that they have the best on offer for the political future and social welfare of the country and its people could not be more misplaced than in the current ...
The 46th ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights which started on the 11th ended on the 25th November. The ordinary session brought together 67 delegates representing 21 states Parties, 7 national human rights institutions, 8 international and governmental organizations and forty one (41) African and international NGO's.
Last month, the International Monetary Fund and the African Export-Import Bank made $800-million in credit available to Zimbabwe. This initiative is meant to help the country restore its ravaged economy.
year-old Shanae Muir disappeared from her Warner Beach home in KwaZulu-Natal on 9 July 2005, the nation was gripped with anxiety and sorrow for her family.
GROUP OF 20: Africa gets seat at policy table
Litha Musyami Ogana, the Director of Gender and Development at the African Union Directorate, on Saturday, delivering a paper on behalf of Dr. Jean Ping, chairperson of the African Union Commission, told participants at the meeting of African Ministers of Gender and Women's Affairs that the African Union is on track in implementing the commitments under its gender directorate.
The Civil Rights Congress of Africa has this week called for an apology from Traditional African rulers over the part that they played in the Slave Trade.
The Regional Minister and Chairman of the Upper East Regional Security Council (REGSEC), Mark Woyongo, has endorsed or justified what has been described as "ill and unprofessional" conduct of some soldiers, who allegedly brutalised and stripped naked two suspects in the Bawku conflict.
I read with bewilderment and disgust the rejoinder under the above title written by one Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim (probably a nom de guerre), who tried in vain to respond to a brilliant, in-depth and down-to-earth commentary on Buhari, written by Shehu Mohammed Funtua and published by Daily Trust of Friday, November 13, 2009.
ZANU PF Youth Minister Saviour Kasukuwere and his MDC Deputy, Thamsanqa Mahlangu, left Harare for Rwanda on Thursday. Mahlangu, who was a guest on our Behind the Headlines programme, told us they were going to the Rwandan capital Kigali on a 'study trip" to learn from that country's experiences and how they dealt with the 1994 genocide and subsequent national healing and reconciliation efforts.
One Sunday morning, I was going to church when I met a lady who was so skimply dressed, one would think she was a sex worker. I initiated a conversation with her, only to find out, she was going to church.
THE Police have arrested the parents of a 15-year- old boy who was discovered abandoned in a chicken house.
Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Salamatu Suleiman, has called on the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and other law enforcement agents, to ensure prompt report of violence against women and children.
Ekurhuleni Mayor Ntombi Mekgwe has recommitted to protecting women and children, not only for 16 days but beyond the campaign.
The North West Public Safety Department is in a process to develop a Provincial Gender Action Plan which intends reducing sexual offences by 7 percent to 10 percent.
Men who get children outside wedlock will have to provide for the children, even if they do not live with the mothers.
The request today by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to the court's judges to open a Kenya investigation is a decisive step toward justice for the country's 2007 post-election violence, Human Rights Watch said. The move comes after more than a year of inaction by Kenya's authorities on national prosecutions.
The clean, ultra-modern chrome and glass lines of the Bella Centre, in the Danish capital Copenhagen, is a world away from the thronging canopy suspended over the tropical forests of Uganda, or the Democratic Republic of Congo, or Cameroon.
In more than 34 years as a judge, he has not been as deeply concerned by anything as he was by the recent comment of a South African deputy minister of police that police officers should shoot and "kill the bastards".
THE Rapaport Diamond Trading Network -- an overseas-based global network of companies that supports the development of free, fair and competitive global diamond markets -- said yesterday it had banned trading of diamonds from Zimbabwe's Marange fields because of severe human rights violations.
Charles Taylor today admitted that he sent his Chief of Protocol to accompany a Sierra Leonean rebel commander to Burkina Faso in 1998 but denied that he helped him transport arms and ammunition through Liberia for use by rebel forces in Sierra Leone.
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