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January 28, 2013
Africa: Israeli Furore Over Drugs for Ethiopian Jews
The director of the Ministry of Health in Israel, Roni Gamzo, has issued a formal directive instructing that gynaecologists should not inject women with the contraceptive… Read more »
October 18, 2010
Mali: Disabled Seek Jobs, Not Charity
Mali's disabled have access to some free healthcare options, and are supported by a number of associations and charities, but what they really want is to find work and contribute… Read more »
March 31, 2010
Senegal: Killing Babies to Hide Indiscretion
In Senegal women who become pregnant outside of marriage - their husbands living abroad - commonly kill their babies out of fear and shame. Read more »
July 20, 2009
Gambia: Timeline of Crackdown On Journalists
Below is a timeline outlining the arrests and detention of prominent journalists in Gambia over recent years, as reported by Reporters without Borders and Amnesty International. Read more »
May 06, 2009
Burkina Faso: 'Pleasure Hospital' for Genital Mutilation Victims
Construction has begun of West Africa's first clinic for reconstructing clitorises for victims of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). Amid high demand, the US non-profit… Read more »
April 10, 2009
West Africa: Genital Repair Surgery Remains Prohibitely Expensive
Amid high demand from victims of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) for clitoral reconstruction surgery available in Burkina Faso, the procedure remains unaffordable for… Read more »
May 27, 2008
Sudan: Fears of More Conflict Amid Abyei Suffering
Failure to allow thousands of Abyei civilians to return home following recent conflict could destabilise other parts of Sudan, the UN has warned. Read more »
March 21, 2008
Liberia: Special Court for Sexual Violence Underway
The Liberian government has created a special court to deal with not only rising rape cases, but also other forms of violence against women, Liberia's Information Minister Laurence… Read more »
October 02, 2007
Sudan: Darfur Attackers 'Committed War Crimes'
The attackers who killed 10 African Union (AU) peacekeepers in the volatile western Sudan region of Darfur committed a war crime and should be investigated to bring them to book,… Read more »
August 02, 2007
Central African Republic: Civilians in Northwest Still Afraid of Going Home
Thousands of people who fled their homes in northwestern Central African Republic are reluctant to return despite improved security conditions, the International Committee of the… Read more »
December 21, 2006
Liberia: UN Maintains Diamond Sanction, Demanding Better Government Controls
The United Nations Security Council has renewed its ban on Liberian diamond exports calling for better documentation of where exactly each diamond comes from, how much it is worth… Read more »
November 10, 2006
Africa: Only Conflict-Free Diamonds, Please
Ghana, implicated in trafficking conflict diamonds, has been given a three-month reprieve by a global watchdog set up to eliminate the trade in so-called blood diamonds. Read more »
October 24, 2006
South Africa: More Heat Less Light At Nuclear Facility
James Mcephe, 69, is not the man he used to be. His skin is painfully itchy and bleeds after the slightest knock; his eyes are afflicted by a burning sensation that makes it… Read more »
October 17, 2006
Malawi: Calls for Review of Law in Wake of Madonna Adoption
Madonna's "bending of the rules" in her haste to adopt 13-month-old David Banda is sending a message to child traffickers that Malawi is open for business, a southern African child… Read more »
September 04, 2006
Africa: Gender Inequality Driving HIV - UN Aids Envoy
Gender inequality and the inability of women to negotiate safe sex are behind the continued spread of the pandemic, according to Stephen Lewis, UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS in… Read more »
August 04, 2006
Zimbabwe: Survival After Operation Murambatsvina
A year after Zimbabwe's controversial campaign to demolish illegal urban settlements and informal markets, thousands of people remain in limbo, fearful of renewed raids by the… Read more »
Sierra Leone: The Justice Experiment
In post-war public hearings, Sierra Leoneans shared with their compatriots stories of how rebel fighters cut children into pieces in front of their parents, and forced people to… Read more »
July 10, 2006
Africa: UN Aids Envoy Vocal On Women's Issues
The UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa, Stephen Lewis, has proposed the establishment of a new UN agency to protect women's rights, health and security. Read more »
February 21, 2006
Liberia: War-Battered Nation Launches Truth Commission
The Liberian government has officially launched a truth and reconciliation commission to probe human rights abuses over the past quarter-century in the war-wounded country. Read more »
January 24, 2006
Zimbabwe: Govt Takes Radio Station Board Members to Court
The government has begun negotiating with the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) to replace the controversial government-appointed Media and Information Commission (MIC), but… Read more »
December 16, 2005
Zimbabwe: Police Raid Independent Radio Station
A police raid on a private radio station in Zimbabwe has been condemned as an attack on media freedom. Read more »
November 10, 2005
Nigeria: Problems Persist in Oil-Rich Delta 10 Years After Activist's Death
Ten years after the execution in Nigeria of writer and environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa, his non-violent campaign has been replaced by an armed protest against oil companies… Read more »
July 12, 2005
Djibouti: Women Fight Mutilation
For thousands of years, girls in the area that is now the tiny African country of Djibouti, have been subjected to pharaonic circumcision. Read more »
May 25, 2005
Sudan: Living With the Trauma of FGM
Omnia was nine years old the day she was forced onto a cold metal table by her mother and grandmother and circumcised by a stranger. Now 22, she has never forgotten the incident. Read more »
April 15, 2005
Equatorial Guinea: Prisoners Face Death By Starvation, Says Amnesty
At least 70 prisoners being held in Equatorial Guinea's notorious Black Beach prison outside the capital Malabo are facing death by starvation, Amnesty International said in a… Read more »
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