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Turkey should not allow President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, an accused war criminal, to attend a conference in Istanbul, and should arrest him if he sets foot in Turkey, Human Rights Watch said today.
Uganda has long received praise for its successful handling of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the 1990s, when it engaged civil society in its prevention efforts and worked to reduce the stigma of the disease.[1] Prevalence rates declined as a result of government policies that promoted the empowerment of civil society, frank discussions of HIV transmission, pragmatic emphasis on comprehensive HIV ...
Campaigners on HIV and AIDS have welcomed a decision by U.S. President Barack Obama to remove entry restrictions to the United States based on HIV status and have called on other nations with similar policies to follow his example.
The word "Women" in Women Action for Development (WAD) has always labelled this non-governmental organisation an exclusive female entity.
President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali received more congratulatory messages from national organisations and associations, on his brilliant victory in the presidential elections.
A coalition of Igbo organization under the aegis of Igbo bu Igbo has come against those criticizing Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu over his statement warning the Appeal Court sitting in Enugu against granting the prayers of the 2007 governorship candidate of People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State, Dr. Andy Uba, who wants to be confirmed as the governor in waiting in the state.
Advocacy group the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), has called on SADC leaders to send a monitoring force into Zimbabwe, until a free and fair election to be held in 2011.
Zimbabwe's rough diamond trade has escaped a six-month suspension by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) - an international initiative to stem the flow of conflict diamonds - after its own investigating team recommended earlier in 2009 that the country be temporarily barred from importing and exporting the gems.
The sound of the evening bell at a local boarding high-school in Wajir, in the northeast of Kenya, did not always signal the end of the day's classes. Instead it marked the end of the evening bathroom break as "bucket toilets" were emptied for the day.
Succour may soon come the way of gifted but indigent children in Nigeria, as an international Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) under the aegis of African Children Talent Discovery Foundation (ACTDF), yesterday in Abuja, said it had concluded plans to raise N500 million, with a view to helping such children to maximize their full potentials.
Association of Anti-graft Activists (AAA) has called for the withdrawal of a national honour given the former chairman of Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), Chief Olabode George, by the Federal Government and his removal from Kirikiri prisons to Maiduguri.
South-east Peoples Assembly (SEPA) has condemned the role being played by Chief Chris Uba in Anambra politics,accusing him of precipitating the crisis engulfing the state.
A coalition of leading environmental pressure groups in Nigeria who met recently in Abuja to study the development initiative of US billionaire Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), land grabs and non-ecological agriculture have recommended that Africa should not be a dumping ground for unverified technologies such as genetically modified crops.
A budget monitoring expert has called for extractive taxes reconciliation between States, Local Governments, Interventionist Agencies and communities in the Niger Delta; as a way to ensure rapid development in the region.
The World Bank and other donor partners have been called upon to back the execution of a campaign, which aims at involving the Civil Society in the monitoring of procurement and donor assisted projects in the country.
Various groups and organisations from all over Lagos Island East LCDA have joined Heads of Departments in the LCDA to demand increased citizens' participation in governance; at a community training and an interactive town hall forum in the Lagos Island East.
Hurricane Katrina was a major disaster in New Orleans in the United States of America that rendered several people homeless. It was a disaster that thoroughly exposed the sole super power in the world and brought home the message that rich nations also suffer just like rich men also cry.
CIVIL society organisations yesterday rapped the Government over the creation of new districts.
Civil society organisations have called on government to include civil society organisations when deciding on the national priorities in the national budget.
Amnesty International is calling for an immediate stop to planned demolitions by the Rivers State Government of houses along Njemanze Road in Port Harcourt, Nigeria warning that hundreds of people could be left homeless following the exercise.
Donors have promised US$40 billion in aid to agriculture in developing countries since the Rome "food summit" in 2008, but in some countries the bulk of this aid is uncoordinated, shortsighted and does not support government priorities, says NGO Oxfam.
Amnesty International today urged African government representatives meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to reaffirm their support for the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The Algerian government is blocking attendance of an Algerian NGO from an upcoming UN anti-corruption summit. This is a deeply worrying development, according to the UNCAC Coalition, a group of over 200 organisations seeking implementation of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).
The pressure from human rights groups and NGOs across the world is building on the Kimberley Process to ban Zimbabwe from international diamond trade.
The Brig. Gen. Solomon Giwa Amu Foundation has donated 475 textbooks worth N2.5 million, which cover an array of disciplines (Strategic/-Contem-porary Military Leadership, Conflict Resolution and Foreign Policy) to the National Defence College Library, Abuja.
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