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US President Barack Obama on Monday night delivered his strongest rebuke yet to Robert Mugabe, labelling him a 'dictator,' while criticising his regime of 'oppressors' for their brutal treatment of human rights activists.
CABINET Minister William Ruto has invited Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka and Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta to be the guests of honour at a fundraising in aid of the Mau forest evictees.
In what has been described as a landmark development regarding judicial cooperation between France and Rwanda, two senior judges from the Paris Court of Higher Instance have arrived in the country to investigate Genocide fugitives on French soil.
During school hours the pupils of Claireville Primary in the port city of Durban are spared the jibes and taunts of not being South African nationals, but the welcome ends when they leave the grounds.
Exactly 20 years ago, on 20 November 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) which sets universal standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below the age of 18 years.
Surely, the decision of the United Nations General Assembly to make July 18 Nelson Mandela International Day is not a surprise to those who follow the sterling life and times of the former South African president.
The full text of remarks by President Barack Obama at the presentation to Magodonga Mahlangu and Jenni Williams of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) of the 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on November 23, 2009.
Uganda's human rights situation will be reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2011 for the first time.
The first team of French jurists investigating genocide crimes committed by some Rwandan fugitives currently residing in France, have arrived in the country to carry out a series of interviews with various witnesses.
At least 350 teenage girls are to be circumcised in the next two weeks in Marakwet East and Pokot Central districts.
Relief food sent to Bomet and Bureti districts for Mau Forest evictees has been re-directed to Kuresoi.
Violence against women remains a major challenge to the realisation of gender equity in Kenya today, a lobby group has said.
South Rift MPs yesterday snubbed a function in Chepalungu by Prime Minister Raila Odinga in protest over the Mau evictions.
FELISTA Laurent (15) had not been admitted to hospital in her life, until November 4, this year, when she was attacked by his father, Laurent Nyonyo and hospitalised at Tarime District Regional Hospital, with serious wounds. This was after she refused to get married. Staff Writer MUGINI JACOB visited the young girl at the hospital and now reports...
More Nigerians have fled the ceded Bakassi Peninsula following intensified harassment of innocent Nigerians living in the area. About 200 persons who recently escaped death and maiming by the gendarmes have arrived the returnee camp at Ekpri Ikang with sorry stories of intense torture.
First, a glimpse to my bio-data; I am a first-born son to my parents. I have four brothers. Incidentally, my father came from a Muslim family whereas my mom from an Orthodox Christian family. Though, their union was initially frowned upon, they managed to overcome that and raised us in an environment that helped us to appreciate the real meaning of diversity. Thus, coming from such a background, ...
Remarks by Jenni Williams, accepting on behalf of Women of Zimbabwe Arise, the 26th Annual Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, November 23th, 2009 at the White House, Washington, DC.
Remarks by Magodonga Mahlangu accepting the 26th Annual Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, November 23th, 2009 at the White House, Washington, DC.
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Osun state has slated the rerun in Osogbo State constituency and Osun East senatorial district for Saturday, 5th December, 2009.
A human rights activist has asked the Government to trace customers of albino organs in order to end witchcraft-associated killings of melanin deficient persons mostly rocking Lake Zone regions.
Non-governmental organisations have launched a joint campaign with the Police to fight human sacrifice in Uganda.
THE Police and health authorities have rescued two children who were starved by their parents in two separate incidences in Mityana and Rakai districts.
During a presentation at the Rwanda Symposium held in Oxford in March 2009, the audience was struck at the resilience exhibited by local Rwandans in their villages.
It is Wednesday, September 8, 2009, around 9.30 am when suddenly, my phone rings. I pick up and hear the voice of my colleague Caddy Adzuba from Radio Okapi on the other end of the line.
A top United Nations human rights official today welcomed a deal agreed by a former rebel group in southern Sudan to end the use of child soldiers among its ranks, while warning of the threat posed to children by various armed militia operating in the region.
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