The survivors. In January the Supreme Court ruled that convicts who have stayed on death row for more than three years should not be hanged. Now Saturday Monitor's Ephraim Kasozi & Lominda Afredraru report the convicts who have survived the hangman's noose.
UGANDA has dismissed as 'academic' a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report that impunity and abuses may mar the 2011 general elections and increase chances of political instability in the country.
The strides we have made, sometimes just make me sit back and wonder at how far we have come. A long time ago, there was no Fida to run to if your man just walked out on you and refused to provide for the upkeep of your children.
A new child labour report in Makindye Division indicates that over 12,000 children are engaged in illegal economic activity exposing them to child labour.
The Delta State Government has reserved five percent of job openings in any recruitment exercise into the state's public service for qualified physically-challenged persons, the State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has said.
Late arrival of materials, voter-apathy as well as difficulty in locating voting centres yesterday marred the local government council election conducted by the Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC). The exercise was however peaceful in most parts of the state.
Married women who consent to circumcision are undermining the fight against female genital mutilation.
Both Britain and Canada's prime ministers have told President Yoweri Museveni that a proposed law that would result in homosexuals in Uganda being imprisoned for life or even executed needs to be withdrawn.
The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Jean Ping, continues to monitor very closely developments in the Western Sahara, in particular as they relate to the human rights situation in the Territory, as well as to the specific case of the expulsion of Mrs. Aminatou Haidar, a Saharawi human rights activist.
An attempt has been made on the life of the head of the military junta in Guinea, Moussa Dadis Camara. According to newspaper reports, he sustained severe head injuries when shot by an aide de camp, Aboubacar Toumba Diakité.
The United Nations refugee chief today appealed to Spain and Morocco to consider any measure to pave the way for the movement of a Saharawi activist who started a hunger strike last month and whose condition is rapidly deteriorating.
ZIMBABWE reeled into a crisis after diamond traders blacklisted Marange gems from the international market, despite the country escaping sanctions from the international diamond watchdog, the Kimberley Process (KP).
The government yesterday reiterated its opposition to homosexuality and said donors were free to withdraw their funding if they wish.
THE Government has been asked to promote equal access to services, opportunities and treatment for all people. The human rights activists also urged Ugandans to embrace diversity in order to enrich and strengthen the various communities.
ZAMBIA yesterday joined the rest of the world in commemorating the United Nations international day of persons with disabilities.
Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today ordered prosecutors to disclose to the defense all new documents that they intend to use in the cross-examination of former Liberian president Charles Taylor who is responding to charges that he was involved in a joint criminal enterprise with rebel forces who waged an 11-years rebel war in Sierra Leone.
Imagine a tiny country flush with oil money, where the wealth per person is on par with that of Spain or Italy. Now picture a place quite the opposite, where nearly two-thirds of the population lives in extreme poverty and infant and child mortality rates are on par with those of the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo.
As global awareness grows around the Congo and the silence is finally being broken on the current and historic exploitation of black people in the heart of Africa, a myriad of Western-based 'prescriptions' are being proffered. Most of these prescriptions are devoid of social, political, economic and historical context and are marked by remarkable omissions.
Former President Daniel Moi is a man of deep compassion. For more than a year, he has been restraining himself even as his hormones have raged for action over the Mau Forest controversy.
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga has always been my political father. I miss his courage, patriotism, his love for the wretched of Kenya and his consistent resistance against oppression, exploitation and foreign domination.
South Africa is a traumatized nation with deep scars in its psyche which were not being acknowledged, said Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu on Thursday.
RECENT evidence suggests an increase in new HIV infections in the country, threatening to overturn the gains the country has achieved in the last 25 years. Mother-to-child transmission of HIV (MTCT) accounts for 21% of new infections, next to sexual transmission - which is the leading source of new HIV infection in Uganda.
MEMBERS of Parliament from the Great Lakes region want their governments to implement and enforce existing laws and policies on protection of orphans and vulnerable children of HIV/AIDS.
CASES of gender-based sexual violence are higher in the Great Lakes region than any other part of the world, regional security officials have disclosed.
With this week marking World Aids day, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people(LGBT) hopes to achieve a world where all people can fully enjoy human rights and have equal access to opportunities regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, said Jacobus Witbooi, Project coordinator of the People in Need Sexual Minorities Project.
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