Nigerian women are still under severe difficulties because they suffer a great deal of violence as against series of international laws and conventions that the country is signatory to, Bisi Olateru Olagbegi, the Executive Director of Women Consortium of Nigeria (WACON) has said.
Somalia's parliament speaker Sheikh Aden Mohammed Nur Madobe has accused the rebel movements of commiting gross human right violation against the innocent civilians in war-torn Somalia.
PARLIAMENT yesterday passed a Bill prohibiting female genital mutilation (FGM).
THE retired bishop of Mityana diocese, Danstan Bukenya, has clashed with anti-child labour activists, saying they were preventing children from engaging in work-related activities.
Child mothers have accused the former commanders of the Lord's Resistance Army, with whom they produced children, of abandoning their families.
The Archbishop of the Church of Rwanda, Rt. Rev. Emmanuela Kolini has strongly criticized and condemned the decision of an Anglican diocese in the United States of America to elect an openly gay clergy as the bishop of Diocese of Los Angeles.
Ugandan civil society groups marked international Human Rights Day on Thursday by calling for the withdrawal of what they call the “discriminative and oppressive” Anti-Homosexuality Bill from the country’s Parliament.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is seeking "urgent" action from Spain and Morocco over a Saharawi activist whose condition is rapidly deteriorating after she went on hunger strike last month when Morocco denied her entry into her native Western Sahara, subject of a long-running dispute between the two countries.
A leading advocacy group has this week announced it has enough evidence to warrant the prosecution of Robert Mugabe and members of his ZANU PF party for crimes against humanity.
Amnesty International, a global human rights watchdog, yesterday accused the Nigerian Police of being responsible for hundreds of extra-judicial executions, other unlawful killings and enforced disappearances every year.
As the National Gacaca Courts Service prepares to close shop in February next year, a senior official has said that up to 2,261 cases still stand in the way to its winding up.
"When the tenth man finished raping me they said they were going to rape my daughter. I cried out but I could not even stand up at this time...they raped my daughter (while) I was there and I couldn't do anything to stop them. My daughter was five years old..."
Members and supporters of President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party committed widespread, systematic rape in 2008 to terrorize the political opposition, said AIDS-Free World in “Electing to Rape: Sexual Terror in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe,” a report released today. These crimes against humanity have received little public attention and the government has made no effort to hold the ...
Justice and Constitutional affairs Minister Mutula Kilonzo wants the International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Louis Moreno-Ocampo to start investigations into last year's post election violence by December 12.
The Center for Law and Human Rights, a legal entity engaged in the monitoring, education and investigation of Human rights violations across the country, has welcomed the final and edited report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
Last week Thursday, December 3, 2009 was marked worldwide as International Day for People Living with Disabilities. Over one hundred countries met and ratified the United Nations (UN) convention on persons living with disabilities in 2007. As one of the signatories, Nigeria in that year adopted the convention, although it has not been domesticated yet.
Botswana's government has poured cold water on claims from ZANU PF that it is hosting so-called 'pirate radio' stations from its territory. Presidential spokesman Dr Jeff Ramsey issued a statement noting 'the re-appearance of allegations in a section of the Zimbabwe media' but said Botswana did not 'harbour any such radio stations.'
ZANU PF has moved with speed to bar journalists from the independent media from covering their congress, which is fast degenerating into a fiasco following an open rebellion against Robert Mugabe.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says despite the efforts being made in addressing discrimination, racism and violation of human rights, the three scourges remain a serious challenge for the global community.
Message by Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma
Some media commentators have questioned whether the enormous tallies of killings attributed to Idi Amin and his eight-year despotic rule were really factual.
The American pop culture website Gawker has an interesting perspective today on the 'Anti Homosexuality Bill 2009' from journalist and writer Andrew Rice who used to live in Uganda and has written extensively on Africa for the New York Times Magazine and The Economist.
The development of the past 60 years has meant a critical shift in the way the global community regards human rights. Human rights principles are not abstract legal concepts to be deployed as political tools but are safeguards that are vital to ensure that all individuals all over the world can enjoy their rights and freedoms. Much remains to be done to ensure that the principles are translated ...
Today, Uganda joins the rest of the world to commemorate the Human Rights Day. As we mark this day, we need to take stock of where we have come from; where we are and where we intend to be. This call goes to both government and civil society groups. Indeed since its inception in 1996, the Uganda Human Rights Commission together with other human rights organisations have tried their level best to ...
DUE to severe beatings inflicted on him when he was a toddler, 24-year-old Mulenga Bwalya Mweso is hard of hearing in one ear.
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