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2008-01-25, Issue 416
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Threat of military intervention in Zimbabwe
2008-12-11, Issue 412
We, the undersigned African scholars, are greatly concerned about threats of military intervention in Zimbabwe, ostensibly in the name of human rights and for humanitarian purposes. We fully recognize the political impasse in Zimbabwe and the resulta...
Release Jestina Mukoko
Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA)
2008-12-04, Issue 410
Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) became aware of the abduction of our sister Jestina Mukoko on Wednesday from her home in Norton. We are advised that 15 armed men took her away in her nightdress whilst her teenage son looked on helplessly....
Call for the immediate release of ZPP director, Jestina Mukoko
2008-12-04, Issue 410
We, the undersigned organizations, register our serious distress and concern on the news received this morning concerning the abduction of Zimbabwe Peace Project Director, Jestina Mukoko. Ms Mukoko was reported as having been forcefully taken from he...
Zimbabwe: Declaring a health emergency is not enough!
Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA)
2008-12-04, Issue 410
The outbreak of cholera in epidemic proportions has brought Zimbabwe back to the attention of the region and the world. Zimbabwe’s complex emergency, which is now causing so much suffering, taking lives and breaking the society apart at its seams, h...
Global: Get the World Bank out of climate!
2008-11-28, Issue 408
As the world prepares for the UN Climate Change Conference beginning Dec. 1 in Poznan, Poland, we must send a clear, loud message opposing any role for the World Bank in an international climate regime. Please add your organization's name to the sign...
FEMNET condemns the stoning to death of a Woman in Somali
FEMNET
2008-10-30, Issue 404
The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) condemns in the strongest term the stoning to death of Aisho Ibrahim Dhuhulow a Somalian woman after an Islamic Sharia law court found her guilty of adultery....
Global: Sign on to WHO letter - Save mothers' and infants' lives!
2008-10-10, Issue 401
Review and sign on to the letter below urging the World Health Organization (WHO) to revise its guidelines to recommend full-course antiretroviral treatment for all expectant and breastfeeding mothers worldwide, in place of short-course therapy. With...
Angola: State wants to shut down AJPD
2008-10-02, Issue 399
Angolan authorities files legal action to close down the Angolan non-profit AJPD – Association for Justice, Peace and Democracy. AJPD is one of the non-profits which are most committed to the development of culture of human right in the country. The ...
Angolan government attacks activist organization
AJPD
2008-09-25, Issue 398
Angolan authorities filed legal action to close down the Angolan non-profit AJPD – Association for Justice, Peace and Democracy. AJPD is one of the non-profits most committed to the development of culture of human right in the country. The State's lawsuit is based on unconstitutional arguments and invalid proceedings....
Book Café: Appeal for help
Pamberi Trust
2008-09-10, Issue 396
Pamberi Trust and African Synergy are independent registered charitable trusts, governed by constitution, and under authority of Board of Trustees. Today free expression in Zimbabwe is bloodied and torn. Crisis and repression have trampled basic t...
Zimbabwe: Action alert from Pamberi trust
2008-09-12, Issue 395
At Book Café we have created a place of beauty, joy, togetherness and tolerance; an arts centre that celebrates free expression, where artists work with dignity and audiences appreciate a diverse multitude of perspectives. Since 1997 our Book Cafe in...
Global: Sign on to reduce IMF power - letter to Finance Ministers & IMF Board
2008-09-12, Issue 395
Below is a sign-on letter initiated by Bretton Woods Project (UK) encouraging Finance Ministers and members of the IMF Board to shut down the Poverty Reduction & Growth Facility (PRGF), with the funds in it handed over to a more suitable institution ...
American documentary filmmaker detained in Nigeria
Aaron Soffin
2008-09-10, Issue 395
Andrew Berends, an established, award-winning American filmmaker and journalist from New York, was detained Sunday August 31st by the Nigerian military along with his translator, Samuel George, and Joe Bussio, the manager of a local bar. Andrew entered Nigeria legally in April 2008 to complete a documentary film. ...
Kenya: Investigate policy brutality
International Center for Transitional Justice
2008-08-06, Issue 393
The Kenyan government should immediately open an investigation into the recent beating and sexual assault of civil society activists by police, the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) said Tuesday....
Kenya: Investigate police brutality
2008-08-07, Issue 392
The Kenyan government should immediately open an investigation into the recent beating and sexual assault of civil society activists by police, the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) said Tuesday. "We join Kenyan human rights leader...
Kenyan activists barred from Zambia
Onyango Oloo
2008-08-07, Issue 392
I am jotting these few lines from the offices of the Centre for Multiparty Democracy-Kenya here in Nairobi. It is almost 16:00 Kenyan time. I have just been informed by Mr. Omweri Angima the CMD-K Program Officer that the centre's Executive Director...
What's next for Durban's best-known institute of social and environmental justice?
Dennis Brutus and Patrick Bond
2008-08-06, Issue 392
University of KwaZulu-Natal vice-chancellor Malegapuru Makgoba is expected to deliver an edict that the Centre for Civil Society will close on December 31....
Haiti: Save SOPUDEP School
2008-08-07, Issue 392
SOPUDEP is a private non-profit school in Haiti that has served the poorest and most vulnerable children of the community of Petion-Ville since 2001. On Tuesday, August 5, 2008, the SOPUDEP school will begin the procedure to file an injunction agains...
Calling on all Kenyans!
Moses Bomett
2008-07-28, Issue 391
Mr. President, 4613 soon to be half a million Kenyans say you are greedy!! Yes Mr. President and fellow cronies posing as leaders. There are over 4000 Kenyans across the world and more and more joining everyday with one simple message to you: ...
Kenya: Take action on police violence today!
2008-08-01, Issue 391
On Tuesday, July 8, senior police officers in Nairobi, Kenya, beat, sexually violated, and arrested a group of seven civil society advocates as they planned a peaceful protest against government corruption. Two of them, including Ann Njogu, a lead...
Zimbabwe MOU: Consult the people!
ZCTU
2008-07-22, Issue 390
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) welcomes the current moves towards a negotiated settlement to the ongoing political and economic crisis which has gripped Zimbabwe for the past ten years....
New report on Firestone human rights abuses in Liberia
SAMFU et al
2008-07-23, Issue 390
A new report details a wide range of abuses occurring on a rubber plantation in Liberia owned by the Bridgestone/Firestone tire company. The report, titled “The Heavy Load: A Demand for Fundamental Changes at the Bridgestone/Firestone Rubber Plantat...
Friends of the Earth Africa on the food crisis
Friends of the Earth Africa
2008-07-16, Issue 390
Members of FoE Africa from Ghana, Togo, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Nigeria, Mauritius, Tunisia and Swaziland met for five days in Accra, Ghana reviewing issues that confront the African environment. A particular focus was placed on the current food crisis and agrofuels on the continent.
Petition: Bring Israeli army torturer to justice!
B'Tselem
2008-07-24, Issue 390
I hope you have all seen reporting over the past few days about the video of the shooting of Ashraf Abu Rahma in the Palestinian town of Ni'lin and the obvious abusive use of force by the Israeli Occupation Forces. If not, briefly, Rahma was handcu...
Call Firestone today!: World Day Against Child Labor
June 12th is WORLD Day Against Child Labor
2008-06-12, Issue 380
Take action today to stop child labor on the Firestone rubber plantation in Liberia by calling Bridgestone Americas CEO Mark Emkes at 615-937-1000 and tell him to switch from a quota pay system to a living daily wage for workers on his rubber plantat...
STOP the Zimbabwe arms shipment
2008-04-24, Issue 365
A ship carrying arms, including 3 million rounds of ammunition, bound for Zimbabwe is currently trying to find a way of delivering its deadly cargo. It is highly likely that these weapons will be used to fuel violence, killings and intimidation in Zi...
No Guns for Zim: The Coalition
2008-04-24, Issue 365
The global effort to prevent weapons from reaching Zimbabwe during the current crisis is led by Southern African trade unions, NGOs, and church organisations, with support from global civil society--including Avaaz, Oxfam, Amnesty International, and ...
South Africa: Police shoot 3 children in Cape Town
2008-02-20, Issue 347
Police have started shooting people at close range in Delft. There is pandemonium and brutality. Following yesterday's ruling in the High Court which upholds Thubelisha Homes and the state's eviction order against the community, the residents decided...
Kenya: Strategic highway to west reopens
2008-02-07, Issue 343
Normal transportation of goods and people to the west of Kenya resumed last week after days of disruption along the highway from Nairobi to west of the country and Uganda. Armed police cleared the highway of barricades erected by marauding youths in ...
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