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THE high level of poverty has increased gender violence, according to the Uganda Human Rights Commission.
WOMEN activists last Thursday clashed with judicial officers over the Court of War Crime's capability to protect witnesses.
A sizeable number of Christians in the 77-million worldwide Anglican Communion has been disgusted and disappointed by the Communion's acceptance of openly homosexual people to become bishops.
Sexual harassment in the workplace has long been regarded as taboo, but it continues to plague countless organisations.
An apparent surge in the purchase of African land by foreign companies and governments to grow food and other crops for export has set alarm bells ringing on and off the continent. The headlines have been strident: "The Second Scramble for Africa Starts," "Quest for Food Security Breeds Neo-Colonists," "Food Security or Economic Slavery?"
So confident is President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of the outcome of Equatorial Guinea's election on Sunday that he expects to win by the same margin as in 2002 - with 97.1 percent of the vote, reports Le Pays of Ouagadougou.
The government yesterday responded strongly to international criticism over the proposed anti-gay law, saying the process would continue uninterrupted.
THE Immigration Department is today expected to commence the screening and interviewing of 22 Somali juveniles believed to be victims of an international syndicate in human trafficking.
For the first time in years, Nigeria's Niger Delta seems to be looking up.
A new report released by the African Network for Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect recently confirmed what has long been known in this country - that the tragedy of child abuse accruing from broken, dysfunctional homes or any other reason, is on the rise.
An international human rights group has hailed the request by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo to the court's judges to open a Kenya investigation as "decisive".
HUMAN rights groups in Zimbabwe have condemned world football's governing body Fifa for allowing Robert Mugabe to hold the World Cup trophy as it passed through Zimbabwe. The trophy is on a tour of all 53 African countries ahead of next year's football showpiece in neighbouring South Africa. But activists in Zimbabwe criticised Fifa for handing a propaganda coup to a leader blamed for atrocities ...
The Ethiopian flag contains the universally recognised tri-colours (green, yellow, and red). Different regimes have always embellished it with emblems that define their political ideology. The founding fathers of the nation chose those tri-colours for political and religious reasons. The flag gave legitimacy to their monarchical rule and authenticity to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which ...
In the wake of the May 2005 Ethiopian parliamentary elections, paramilitary forces under the command of Meles Zenawi orchestrated the massacre of 193 innocent men, women and children and wounded a further 763 people involved in civil protest, writes Alemayehu G. Mariam. Ignoring the efforts of the country's regime to besmirch their memory, Ethiopians must honour these victims of oppression as ...
The International Centre for Policy and Conflict (ICPC) has expressed concern on the deepening crisis in Kenya of human rights defenders and victims of post-election violence threats and intimidation and has urged government to address the issue.
HIV/ AIDS pandemic are one of the leading causes of orphan- hood and child labour in Uganda affecting 15percent of children out of estimated 2 million, reports Inea News Agency Ltd.
Chairman of the Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance, retired principal judge Amiri Manento, has spoken of the changing face of the killing of elderly people, especially in the lake zone regions.
The Mozambican trade union movement is demanding a specific law, as soon as possible, allowing workers in the public administration to form trade unions.
In an effort to encourage journalists to report on child rights issues and the contributions by child rights advocates, World's Children's Ugandan Journalist Award, a body launched on November 26 at Buganda Road Primary School, is set to reward journalists who have covering children's activities.
IT is easy for individuals or organisations to stop doing charity work the moment they stop getting funding.
The Angolan Government Friday in Luanda appointed an inter-sectoral commission coordinated by the Foreign ministry, to draft reports on human rights.
I WAS appalled by the photo of a starved child that appeared on the front page of The New Vision, November 25. I have reflected on this photo and wondered under what circumstances one would starve a child to that extent. Yet this is not a unique case.
THERE are positive aspects of female genital mutilation (FGM), the Reproductive Education and Community Health (REACH)has said.
The United Nations is finally having to confront what most observers already know: Its limited but unconditional support for a Congolese army operation to disarm Rwandan Hutu rebels in eastern Congo has made a bad situation worse.
The proposed Bill of Rights in the harmonised draft Constitution of Kenya makes provisions for all areas of fundamental civil liberties that are conceivable and tries to ensure that there is little room for subjective interpretation of the protection granted.
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