Category: Human Rights
Access to Justice Prerequisite for Building Fair and Peaceful Societies
By Patricia Scotland Published November 3, 2019 Access to justice for everyone in all communities is an important right and requirement for building fair and peaceful societies – yet this objective has been achieved in few if any nations, and the consequences are damaging for social, economic and political progress and stability. RELATED: WHY WE SUPPORT…
Read MoreProtect Cyclone Victims From Sex for Food Trap
By Khalifa Hemed Published April 25, 2019 Desperation for food is forcing victims of a cyclone to trade sex for food. Hunger and destruction caused by Cyclone Idai, Human Rights Watch reports, has left hundreds of thousands of women in Mozambique vulnerable to abuse by community leaders. RELATED:CORRUPTION UNDERMINES DEVELOPMENT ACROSS AFRICA Calling upon the…
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African Asylum-Seekers Risk Jail
By Iminza Keboge Published January 22, 2018 Thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers face prison if they do not leave Israel by March 31, 2018. Human Rights Watch (HRW) says a new Israeli policy, unless abandoned, “could lead to the indefinite detention of thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese nationals for refusing to leave Israel for…
Read MoreKenya to Deliver a Million Urban Housing Units by 2022
By Abdi Ali Published December 26, 2017 The Government of Kenya is working with contractors, developers, financiers and manufacturers of building materials to provide a million affordable housing units by 2022 Aidah Njeri Munano, Kenya’s Principal Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, says the target of one million housing units has been made on the…
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Rwanda Bars Journalist from Attending UN Forum
By Halima Abdi Published December 21, 2017 A human rights organisation has accused the government of Rwanda of preventing a journalist from attending a United Nations conference in Switzerland. Freedom House says Rwandan authorities held Robert Mugabe, editor of an online news outlet called Great Lakes Voice at the airport and interrogated him for four…
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US Health Policy Harming Kenya and Uganda
By Irene Gairtirira Published November 2, 2017 A human rights group has asked President Donald Trump of the United States of America to withdraw his Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy that, it says, is harming health service in Kenya and Uganda. Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Trump’s Expanded ‘Mexico City Policy’ has led…
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