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HRCO’s bank accounts were frozen after the introduction of the Charities and Societies Proclamation (CSO law), adopted...
Source: Human Rights Watch
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In Benin, Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo promotes birth registration to protect children’s righ
A legal identity is a critical right, one many children in Benin are denied.
Source: UNICEF
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Amnesty International on Friday called on Zimbabwean authorities to refrain from manipulating the country's laws...
Source: News 24
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South Africa's Human Rights Commission is investigating reports that Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini called gay people "rotten" during a speech.
Source: BBC
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Women in Malawi will stage a sit-in to defend their right to wear pants after police arrested a gang for terrorising trouser-wearing women by stripping off their clothes, an organiser said on Thursday.
Source: News24
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The Ethiopian government under its “villagization” program is forcibly relocating approximately 70,000 indigenous people
Source: Human Rights Watch
/9/
Government Seeks New Image Without Reform
Source: Human Rights Watch
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3 weeks 1 day ago
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The Kenyan security forces are beating and arbitrarily detaining citizens and Somali refugees in Kenya’s North Eastern province...
Source: Human Rights Watch
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Libya asked the International Criminal Court to give it until January 31 to say whether Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the most prominent son of the former leader, will be surrendered to The Hague to face trial for war crimes.
Source: Reuters Africa
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3 weeks 4 days ago
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The three International Criminal Court judges handling the Kenyan case are scheduled to meet later this week to set the date on which to deliver the much-awaited ruling on the Ocampo Six.
Source: Sunday Nation
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/13/
Egyptian police detained four activists on Tuesday for putting up posters critical of the ruling military council, a step a human rights lawyer said was part of an effort to neutralize the protest movement.
Source: Al-Masry Al-Youm
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An alliance of Zimbabwe's main human rights and civic organizations says human rights violations and failures of the coalition government this year forecast greater upheavals in 2012.
Source: IOL News
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Congolese security forces have killed at least 24 people and arbitrarily detained dozens more since President Joseph Kabila was announced the winner of the disputed
Source: Human Rights Watch
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But the group said that Mr. Qaddafi had been denied access to legal counsel as he awaited trial on charges of crimes against humanity.
Source: The New York Times
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The U.S. secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, on Monday accused post-revolution Egypt of failing its women and denounced the stripping and beating of a female protester as “shocking” and a “disgrace."
Source: Al Arabiya
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Al Qaeda’s North African wing posted photographs of five Europeans kidnapped in Mali last month
Source: Times Live
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Human Rights Watch is urging Uganda's government to conduct a “transparent” investigation into the murder of a Rwandan journalist.
Source: IOL News
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The Islamist party that won Tunisia's first post-revolution election said it would elevate a decades-old gender equality statute to a basic law.
Source: Times Live
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