August 03, 2022
Africa: The Politics of the Hangman's Noose - Judge, Jury & Executioner
A spike in state-sanctioned executions worldwide - including in Iran, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and more recently Myanmar - has triggered strong condemnations from the United… Read more »
August 01, 2022
Malawi: Climate Change Is Putting Women & Girls At Greater Risk of Sexual Violence #AfricaClimateCrisis
It is often those least responsible for causing climate change that suffer the most from the impacts. And such is the case with women and girls in Malawi - one of the world's… Read more »
June 27, 2022
East Africa: Urgent Need to Enact Proposed Law to Secure Sexual and Reproductive Health in East Africa Countries
The Ministry of Health in Kenya recently reported that about 700 teenage girls got pregnant daily over a two-month period, in this year alone. What is more is that during this… Read more »
June 23, 2022
Africa: Indigenous Communities Want Stake in New Deal to Protect Nature
In early June 2022, more than 30 people from the Maasai community in the Loliondo division in Tanzania's northern Ngorongoro District were reportedly injured, and one person died… Read more »
June 14, 2022
Uganda: Disability Inclusion Lifts Rural Ugandan Families From Poverty
Lawrence Akena was born 32 years ago with microcephaly. Because of his neurological condition, he didn't go to school or benefit from skills training. Read more »
May 20, 2022
Africa: Youth Demand a Voice in Call-to-Action On Child Labour
Ashley has vast work experience. She has laboured by the sweat of her brow in the blistering sun on the streets of Guatemala, in the open fields on farmlands and indoors, toiling… Read more »
May 17, 2022
Africa: Child Labour - No Quick End to Children Trapped in Tobacco Production
Despite World Day Against Child Labour launched in 2002 by the International Labour Organization (ILO), little has changed over the past two decades for the millions of children… Read more »
Africa: From Child Laborer to Activist, Tara Banjara Asks World to Pledge to End the Scourge
Tara Banjara was four and a half years old when her parents put her to work on the roads, cleaning the garbage and rubble out of potholes to prepare for construction in Nemdi… Read more »
Africa: Africa Expected to Strongly Support Durban Call to Action On Child Labour
Global goals to eradicate child labour will not be achieved without a breakthrough in Africa, where most of the world's 160 million children entrapped in child labour work in rural… Read more »
Africa: Call to Invest 'Serious Resources' in Education, to Stem Tide of Child Labour
"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to eliminate child labour." So said Dennis Sinyolo, Director of Education International's African Regional Office in Accra,… Read more »
May 15, 2022
Africa: Youths' Strident Voices Demand an End to Child Labour
Children's voices took centre stage at the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, which kicked off in Durban, South Africa, on May 15, 2022. Their voices… Read more »
May 13, 2022
Africa: Call to Freedom for Millions of Children Trapped in Child Labour As Global Conference Comes to Africa
Children washing clothes in rivers, begging on the streets, hawking, walking for kilometres in search of water and firewood, their tiny hands competing with older, experienced… Read more »
May 10, 2022
Ghana: 'I Fell For His Lies' - Human Trafficking Survivor Tells Her Story
"It feels like yesterday when I was deceived by one man who claimed to be a travelling agent. He promised me a work opportunity and a good salary," says 25-year-old Cissy, as she… Read more »
August 05, 2014
Africa: Activists Urge Obama to Act On Extractive Industries Law
As the three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit got underway here Monday, anti-corruption activists urged President Barack Obama to prod a key U.S. agency to issue long-awaited… Read more »
August 18, 2008
Equatorial Guinea: Human Rights Drowning in Oil
The oil interests of Angola, Brazil and Portugal could pave the way for former Spanish colony Equatorial Guinea to become the ninth member of the Community of Portuguese Language… Read more »
June 23, 2008
Chad: 'Africa's Pinochet' Still Eluding Justice
Two years after the African Union mandated Senegal to conduct the trial of Chadian dictator Hissenè Habré, who is accused of thousands of political murders during his… Read more »
April 10, 2008
Ethiopia: 'The Death Sentence Was Used As a Tool of Intimidation'
Journalism in Ethiopia has become an increasingly hazardous trade over recent years. A clampdown on the media in the wake of disputed elections in 2005 continues to resonate in the… Read more »
January 02, 2008
South Africa: Government Set to Reach Sanitation Target, But is It Enough?
The South African Department of Water Affairs and Forestry has narrowly missed one of its most important targets, aimed at improving sanitation for the country's poorest people -… Read more »
October 22, 2007
Congo-Kinshasa: World Bank Confronts Challenge Over Logging
The World Bank is scrambling to respond to complaints that it broke its own rules to support commercial logging at the expense of Pygmy lands and livelihoods in the war-wrecked… Read more »
July 05, 2007
Ethiopia: Ogaden Crackdown Carries High Human Cost
An intensified counter-insurgency campaign against Somali rebels and their suspected civilian supporters in Ethiopia's Ogaden region is drawing growing criticism by human… Read more »
August 25, 2006
Africa: A Ghastly Disease Feeds Off a Ghastlier Oppression
Gender inequality has become the main driver of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, especially in Africa, where 70 percent of those infected are women. Read more »
September 29, 2005
Nigeria: Son of Fallen Activist On U.S. 'Price of Oil' Tour
"In my book, I imagine my father's last day before his execution. I went into his head, reconstructing it from his letters and poems from prison. He was always convincing me to… Read more »
June 24, 2005
Zimbabwe: 'I'm Ready to Stand in Front of the Gun and be Shot'
A coalition of more than 200 African and international civic groups has called on the United Nations and African Union to press for an end to evictions and demolitions that have… Read more »
November 11, 2004
Equatorial Guinea: Growing Suppression, Soaring Poverty in Tiny Oil-Rich Country
The dictator of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, is stepping up suppression of opposition, while social conditions in the tiny West African nation are worsening, an… Read more »