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United Nations-backed talks aimed at bringing an end to the deadly conflict between the Government and rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been focusing on security matters, including a possible ceasefire, since resuming earlier this week in Nairobi, a senior official said today.
Thousands of civilians have been displaced in another deadly attack by suspected Lord's Resistance Army rebels in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to local sources.
Parents, police and even judges are hesitant to press charges against human-traffickers because of fear of punishment, concern for the community and confusion about Togo's 2005 anti-trafficking law, according to an NGO analysis of the law.
Rwandan Prosecutor General, Martin Ngoga, has confirmed that at least 17 people are under investigations for their involvement in mismanagement of Funds for Support of Genocide Survivors (FARG), established some ten years ago.
CIVIL society organisations in SA are to press the government and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to hasten resolution of the crisis in Zimbabwe.
Attempts to charge Sudan's leaders with war crimes in Darfur have dramatically changed the country's political scene, says a new report by the British think tank Chatham House.
Reporters Without Borders wrote today to Tomaz Salamao, the executive secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), urging his regional organisation to put pressure on President Robert Mugabe's government to release journalist and human rights activist Jestina Mukoko as soon as possible.
STATE secret service agents allegedly assaulted, tortured and detained human rights activist Jestina Mukoko in solitary confinement for 19 days to coerce her to admit recruiting youths for military training in Botswana to dislodge President Robert Mugabe from power.
KEY witnesses who gave damning evidence at the Waki Commission on post-election violence are in hiding following the state's failure to offer them protection.
Osun State Civil Societies Coalition against Corruption and Rights Violation (OSCARV) yesterday visited the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID) with their petitions alleging various rights violation and extra-judicial killings in the state.
Today we investigate a report of a Rwandan national, Scovia Mbabazi, who is said to have kidnapped a 15 year old boy here in Rwanda, with the intention of selling him in Uganda.
As Director of State Protocol Rose Kabuye travels back to France today, opinion leaders at various levels have given their take on the case.
Judges in Zimbabwe with their farms, posh cars, plasma TV's and other monetary perks took their brazen loyalty to Mugabe's regime to new heights Friday.
South African civic and church leaders, as well as former anti-apartheid activists, are set to come together to press the country's government and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to find an urgent solution to the Zimbabwe crisis.
Ethiopia has sunk deeper into despotism after it passed a law that restricts the work of independent human rights defenders and civil society organizations.
African Protestant and evangelical churches have expressed disgust at the ongoing bloody violence between Israel and Palestine and called for its immediate end.
RIGHTS activist Jestina Mukoko, who together with dozens of opposition members is facing treason charges, has filed an affidavit in court detailing the inhuman treatment meted out to her by state security agents.
Kidnapping has now become a generic word both in public and private discuss going by its prevalence in the country. Literarily, the word, which has become notorious, putrid and nauseating in the ears of virtually everyone is derived from "kid" meaning; child and "nab" which means; to snatch.
On the 18th of December, 2008, a Statement on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity with the backing of 66 states including six African countries, was read at the General Assembly. The statement reaffirmed "the principle of the universality of human rights amongst other things. But a counter-statement arguing against the statement supported by 60 states including a multitude of ...
As someone who has spent a few nights in detention fighting for democracy, I have always considered the vote as something close to being sacred.
Police say they have made significant headway in their investigation of the vicious attacks against several foreign nationals in Durban at the weekend and arrests are imminent.
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon has appointed 64-year-old Joseph Masanche of Tanzania, ad litem (temporary) Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) effective January, this year, as part of efforts to bridge gap of seven judges who left the UN court last December.
Genocide-accused Lieutenant Colonel Tharcisse Muvunyi's lead counsel, William Taylor, has opposed to prosecution summoning new witnesses when the defendant's re-trial, as ordered by the UN Appeals court, opens on Monday before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), reports Hirondelle Agency.
Cécile Moutouba marched with a knife in one hand, a stick in the other. She said her husband has used both against her.
Parents, police and even judges are hesitant to press charges against human-traffickers because of fear of punishment, concern for the community and confusion about Togo's 2005 anti-trafficking law, according to an NGO analysis of the law.
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