Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji (ed) (2008) China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective. 
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RSS FeedSomalia: Routine killings of civilians - AI report
2008-05-08
The dire human rights and humanitarian crisis facing the people of Somalia has been revealed in a groundbreaking new Amnesty International report. First-hand testimony from scores of traumatized survivors of the conflict is included in the report, wh...
Rwanda: UN genocide tribunal begins trial of ex-minister
2008-05-08
The trial of a former Rwandan minister, who allegedly coordinated the killing of Tutsis, began today before the United Nations war crimes tribunal set up to deal with the 1994 genocide in the small African country....
Morocco: Sham inquiry highlights impunity for police abuse
2008-05-09
Citing "lack of evidence," Moroccan authorities closed an investigation into police abuse allegations made by two human rights defenders whose testimony the prosecutor refused to solicit, Human Rights Watch has said. The two Sahrawi human rights advo...
Global: Landmark UN treaty on rights of persons with disabilities enters into force
2008-05-09
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities entered into force today, one month after the required twentieth country ratified the landmark treaty which guarantees the rights of some 650 million people worldwide. The Conve...
Kenya: Torture by the military at Mt. Elgon - report
2008-04-30
Since the January post election violence and subsequent mediation and resultant national accord by the political elites there continues massive appeals on reconciliation by the grand coalition government behind the scenes the government has and conti...
Mozambique: Police 'kill at will'
2008-05-01
Police in Mozambique have been accused of killing and torturing people with near total impunity. The human rights group Amnesty International has published a report saying the Mozambique police appear to think they have a licence to kill. The group s...
DRC: ICC seeks 'Terminator'
2008-05-01
A Congolese warlord known as "the Terminator" is being sought for prosecution, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague has revealed. The arrest warrant for Bosco Ntaganda, was issued in 2006 but not made public and he is still at large. H...
Morocco: Disabled struggle to integrate
2008-05-01
Trouble getting an education or finding a job is a fact of life for young, disabled Moroccans. Government plans are already in place to end workplace discrimination and expand integrated classrooms....
Africa: Millions of children falling through the cracks
2008-05-02
A significant proportion of the world's 2.2 billion children, many of whom are victims of violence, sexual abuse, labour exploitation and preventable diseases, are from the crisis-plagued African continent....
Ghana: Justice denied
2008-05-02
When Naa Adorkor’s 15 year-old daughter was raped by a 45 year-old neighbour she vowed no expense would be spared in prosecuting the man. Four years later she has spent all her money and still received no verdict from Ghana’s courts. “I am fed up and...
Egypt: First quarterly report on freedom of religion and belief
2008-05-02
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) issued the English version of its first quarterly report on freedom of religion and belief in Egypt. The report covers the first three months of 2008 and documents new court rulings, legislation and ...
South Africa: Prepaid water meters ruled unconstitutional
2008-05-02
The Johannesburg High Court has ruled that the City of Johannesburg’s practice of forcibly installing prepayment water meters in Phiri, Soweto is unconstitutional. It also set aside the City’s decision to limit its free basic water supply to 25 litre...
Central Africa: Hundreds abducted
2008-04-25
Central African leaders and the UN have been urged to secure the release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in recent weeks. The abductions took place in the Central African Repu...
Africa: Coalition activities on margins of the 43rd session of the African Commission
2008-04-24
The Coalition for an Effective African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Coalition), which comprises African and international non-governmental organisations (NGO) working in and on Africa, individuals and national human rights institutions in ...
Rwanda: UN's Louise Arbour under fire
2008-04-24
The former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour is responsible for covering up the murder of the deceased President of Rwanda, the President of Burundi and many other persons who were assassinated on April 06 1994, a senior attorney wi...
Zimbabwe: Civic groups: Evidence on state violence
2008-04-25
Civic groups in Zimbabwe have released a document detailing evidence of state-sponsored murder and violence against opposition supporters to southern Africa's chief elections observer. The document handed to Jose Marcos Barrica, Southern African Deve...
Mauritius: Government flouts labour laws
2008-04-25
It has been discovered that the law and practice in Mauritius is in breach of the International Labour Organisation's core labour conventions ratified by the country. This revealation was contained in a new report released by the International Trade ...
Southern Africa: Human trafficking on the upswing
2008-04-25
The victims of human trafficking in Southern Africa are often invisible because many countries in the region have failed to implement laws to combat it, Hans Petter Boe, Regional Representative for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), ...
Togo: All set for TRC creation
2008-04-18
Togolese officials have embarked on a nation-wide consultation on the creation of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to heal the wounds of the 2005 political violence in the West African country...
Sudan: Darfuris arrested and physically abused following student protests
2008-04-18
The Sudan Organisation Against Torture (SOAT) is concerned about the fate of an unknown number of Darfuris arrested following student protests in Khartoum. At least some of those detained have suffered serious physical abuse in custody....
Global: Rights of parliamentarians must be respected - IPU
2008-04-18
Rights of an elected parliamentarian must be respected as it impacts on the entire country, according to the Committee on Human Rights of the Interparliamentary Union (IPU). "... if the rights of an elected parliamentarian are not respected, this doe...
Egypt: Perversion of justice - 25 face jail
2008-04-18
An Egyptian military court sentenced 25 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood to jail on Tuesday - a verdict described by Amnesty International as a "perversion of justice". “This trial appeared to be politically motivated from the start, when...
Angola: Lack of cooperation prompts UN to close human rights office
2008-04-18
The United Nations announced that it will close its human rights office in Angola, after authorities in the southern African nation decided not to sign an agreement that would have formally established the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Ri...
Guinea Ecuatorial: Concern over erosion of rights
2008-04-18
Amnesty International (AI) has expressed worry over the deteriorating human rights situation, including reported claims of detention without trial or charged, torture and killing of political opponents in Equatorial Guinea government, ahead of the pa...
Egypt: Brutal assault on civilians in Northern Egypt
2008-04-11
On April 7th and 8th local reaction to the government’s violent crackdown on a peaceful strike on April 6th has grown and intensified as residents express their anger over the brutal actions taken by Egyptian authorities that culminated in the death ...
DRC: Repression in Bas-Congo
2008-04-11
The Congolese government through its police forces has again targeted the people of Bundu Dia Kongo (BDK); a religio-political organization made up of the Kongo people in the Bas Congo province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The government crus...
Egypt: Prominent opposition figure under arrest
2008-04-11
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) express their deepest concern regarding the arrest of George Ishak, a prominent opposition activist and former leader of the Kifaya movement, a...
South Africa: Outrage at shoot-to-kill call
2008-04-11
Susan Shabangu, the South African deputy security minister, has caused a political uproar after she said police should shoot-to-kill when confronting armed criminals. In remarks broadcast on local television and radio on Wednesday, Shabangu said that...
Ethiopia: Activists released from prison
2008-04-04
Two human rights activists have been released from prison in Ethiopia having been detained since November 2005. Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie were released on Friday after receiving a presidential pardon. The two signed a letter acknowledging m...
Global: UN system vows to ensure rights of persons with disabilities
2008-04-04
More than 20 United Nations departments, agencies, programmes, and funds have pledged their support to implementing a landmark treaty on the human rights of persons with disabilities, which opened for signature a year ago this week. The Convention on...
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