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UNEP Year Book 2010: New Science and Developments in Our Changing Environment

Hunger Pains: Pakistan's Food Insecurity

Citizen’s Agenda for Africa’s Development

Human Rights and the Millennium Development Goals

Summit on the Millennium Development Goals 2010

The Open Book of Social Innovation 1

Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?

Monitoring Indigenous and Tribal Peoples’ Rights through ILO Conventions

Innovative Farmer Advisory Systems Using ICT

Annual Energy Outlook 2010

Q&A Session: Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General, Tuiloma Neroni Slade: week of 2 August 2010

Global Research Report: Africa

Web 2.0 Wonders

New US Development Strategy

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Safer to stay silent: The chilling effect of Rwanda's laws on 'genocide ideology' and 'sectarianism'

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Rwanda's laws banning "genocide ideology" and "sectarianism" are vague and sweeping, and have been used to silence legitimate dissent. The laws were designed to encourage unity and restrict speech that could lead to hatred. However, they have had dangerous and chilling effect on Rwandan society. This report outlines Amnesty International's concerns about these laws on paper and in practice. It calls on the government of Rwanda to ensure that, while outlawing acts of genocide and incitement to more...

Added by Zunia on August 31, 2010

The African Charter on Democracy, Elections, and Governance: the role of National Human Rights Institution

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After a brief analysis of the scope and structure of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, this brochure recalls the mandate of an independent national institution for the promotion and protection of human rights, which abides by the Paris Principles. One section analysis the potential role such an institution can play in the implementation of the Charter, as it naturally has an important function in promoting the respect of its clauses, and mainly in stimulating the more...

Added by Zunia on August 29, 2010

Supporting the Educational Needs of HIV-Positive Learners in Tanzania

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As part of a two-country study (with Namibia), this document examines the needs of children in school living with HIV and the extent to which their rights and needs were being fulfilled. This research was carried out by interviewing national policy-makers and officials, as well as district officials in Njombe District, Tanzania. Children living with HIV and others affected by AIDS were also interviewed, together with their parents, guardians and teachers, and organizations working with them.

Added by Zunia on August 25, 2010

Hard news: Journalists' lives in danger in Somalia

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Since February 2007, at least 20 journalists have been killed in Somalia. Faced with the threat of human rights abuses including violations of their rights to life, security of person and freedom from arbitrary detention, many have been forced into exile. Journalists have been systematically prevented from carrying out their work and providing information to the public by parties to the conflict. Attacks on journalists and media outlets violate the right of all Somalis to seek, receive and more...

Added by Zunia on August 23, 2010

Ijue Faida Na Hasara ya kura yako

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Ijue Faida Na Hasara ya kura yakoNa Yona Fares MaroKURA ni kitendo cha kumchagua kiongozi ambaye wewe binafsi unaona atafaa kuongoza jamii katika ngazi fulani. Kitendo hicho hufanyika mara moja baada ya muda fulani kufuatana na jinsi mlivyojipangia wenyewe kisheria. Inaweza kuwa kila baada ya miaka mitatu au mitano kutegemeana na matashi yenu. Nchini mwetu hivi sasa wakati wa kupiga kura umekaribia. Ifikapo Oktoba 2010 itakuwa ni siku ya uchaguzi wa kitaifa kwani tutachagua Madiwani, Wabunge more...

Added by Yona Maro on August 01, 2010

Agents of Fear: The National Security Service in Sudan

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Human rights violations, including secret detention and torture, have created a climate of fear in Sudan. Human rights defenders, political dissidents, students and members of ethnic minorities continue to be arbitrarily arrested and detained. Chief among the agents of government repression is the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), whose members have immunity from prosecution for all crimes committed in the course of their work. This report illustrates the human rights more...

Added by Zunia on July 27, 2010

Democracy on Hold: Rights Violations in the April 2010 Sudan Elections

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This 32-page report documents numerous rights violations across Sudan by both northern and southern authorities in the period leading up to, during, and following the April elections. These abuses include restrictions on freedom of speech and assembly, particularly in northern Sudan, and widespread intimidation, arbitrary arrests, and physical violence against monitors and opponents of the incumbent parties by Sudanese security forces across the country. The report is based on research carried more...

Added by Zunia on July 05, 2010

Deliberate Chaos: Ongoing Human Rights Abuses in the Marange Diamond Fields of Zimbabwe

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Human Rights Watch has received new reports that soldiers in Marange are engaging in forced labor, torture, beatings, and harassment. Human Rights Watch documented rampant killings and other abuses in Marange last year. Despite these ongoing abuses, Abbey Chikane, the South African monitor appointed by the Kimberley Process to investigate conditions in the area, has recommended allowing diamond sales from Marange to resume.

Added by Zunia on July 01, 2010

Welcome to Kenya: Police Abuse of Somali Refugees

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Based on interviews with over 100 refugees, this 99-page report documents widespread police extortion of asylum seekers trying to reach three camps near the Kenyan town of Dadaab, the world's largest refugee settlement. Police use violence, arbitrary arrest, unlawful detention in inhuman and degrading conditions, threats of deportation, and wrongful prosecution for "unlawful presence" to extort money from the new arrivals - men, women, and children alike. In some cases, police also rape women. more...

Added by Zunia on June 30, 2010

Mind Revolution Thats what we need

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Mind Revolution Thats what we needThe word “revolution” in its contextual meaning entails a fundamental change, a complete change either in ideology, power, organizational structure or any entirety which could sum up to make a whole. To take a leap beyond what is previously defined by building a broader base of understanding in view of the foregoing, it is important to note that the historical antecedence of revolutionary breakthrough vary widely in terms of methods, duration and causes that more...

Added by Yona Maro on June 13, 2010

NIGERIA: Defending Human Rights

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This report is the result of the fact-finding mission delegation whose objectives were to assess the situation of Nigerian human rights defenders.

Added by Zunia on June 07, 2010

"We'll Tie You Up and Shoot You": Lack of Accountability for Political Violence in Burundi

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This 47-page report is based on four months of field research in Bujumbura and four rural provinces. The report documents numerous incidents of violence, at least one fatal, carried out by and against members of political parties as a means of settling political scores. Most of the violence has involved the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) and its closest competitor in the upcoming elections, the National Liberation Forces more...

Added by Zunia on May 18, 2010

"I can't afford justice": Violence against women in Uganda continues unchecked and unpunished

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Violence against women is pervasive in most parts of Uganda and is widely accepted as justified by "traditional values". Women who have been subjected to violence face numerous obstacles if they seek justice. This report highlights the reasons why women are reluctant to report violence to the authorities, failures in the collection of forensic evidence, police investigations and trials, and the inadequacy of existing laws.

Added by Zunia on May 13, 2010

REFLECTIONS OF A TANZANIAN

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What if Tanzanian leaders are not to blame and instead it is the individual Tanzanian citizen who should be blamed for all the ills that plaque the country for which it has struggled immensely to overcome since its independence. After all, the leaders come from among the citizens who can be quite often both influenced as well as motivated by their diverse backgrounds, cultures, traditions and religions. These cardinal forces have continued to pull the individual Tanzanian towards different more...

Added by Yona Maro on May 11, 2010

A Media Minefield: Increased Threats to Freedom of Expression in Uganda

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As Uganda plans for general elections in 2011, freedom of expression across the country is in significant jeopardy. On a superficial level, Ugandan media seem to enjoy considerable latitude, especially those based in Kampala, which regularly carry a range of opinions, including occasional criticism of government policies. In reality, however, as Human Rights Watch has found, genuinely free and independent journalism is under threat, particularly outside the capital. The government deploys a more...

Added by Zunia on May 03, 2010

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