Prime Minister Fukuda Should Highlight Rights Issues in Bilateral Relations Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda should make human rights issues a priority in his historic meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Japan next week, Human Rights Watch said in
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Stakeholders have called on governments at various levels to give urgent consideration to the implementation, promotion and protection of both civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights for citizens in Nigeria.
A Belgian politician stated that a top official of the former Rwandan presidential party the National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development (MRND), Edward Karemera, accused of 1994 genocide, was rather an open man, in his testimony before the International
The Foundation for International Dignity (FIND) yesterday officially launched the Integrating Human Rights Concept into Local Community Leadership Project in Grand Gedeh County with funding from the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA).
Worried by the growing number of lepers begging on roads in the country, the House of Representatives yesterday passed a resolution urging the Federal Ministry of Health to as a matter of urgency evacuate all lepers from the highways as
The Burundian government should take immediate steps to end the climate of impunity that facilitates illegal detention, mistreatment and torture of individuals by the police, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
Four policemen have been arrested after abuses they committed were denounced during a visit by Mozambican President Armando Guebuza to the district Nacaroa, in the northern province of Nampula, as part of his 'open presidency' tour, reports Wednesday's issue of
The human rights organisation Amnesty International has alleged in a report issued on Tuesday that the Mozambican police are killing and torturing people with near total impunity.
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
Press freedom in Africa declined in 2007 due to a misuse of libel laws and an increase in political conflict, Freedom House, a United States-based organization, wrote in its annual report released Tuesday in Washington, DC.
The Cabinet Council Wednesday here approved the decree that establishes the Entrepreneurial Foment Fund, the Report of Budgetary, Financial and Patrimonial Execution for the year 2007 and the Financial Programming of the National Treasure of the second half of 2008.
Participants at a forum, on Good Police and Public Relationship in Ho, have called for the establishment of a Police Intelligence and Professional unit (PIP), to enable the public make complaints about the conduct of police officers, who misconduct themselves
Programme co-ordinator Bo peace and reconciliation movement has disclosed that his organization's volunteer peace monitors recorded a total of 247 conflicts that were resolved in Bo district in 2007.
violence, a significant segment of the public seems to be in support of mob violencMob violence has come on the increase since the civil war more than 14 years ago. And despite numerous public awareness campaigns against mob e.
