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Edwin Rwigi
2013-05-16, Issue 630
Kenya’s Members of Parliament want a bigger salary. But the country is outraged by this demand. This week, protesters poured out into the streets of Nairobi to say No to the MPs’ greed
CPJ urges President Zuma to block secrecy bill
Committee to Protect Journalists
2013-05-16, Issue 630
The Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide, urges President Jacob Zuma not to sign the Protection of State Information Bill and to send it back to the National Assembly for further revisions that meet the standards of openness and transparency demanded by South Africa's Constitution
All that glitters is not gold
An employee of Tsogo Sun (Garden Court-Marine Parade)
2013-05-16, Issue 630
It is a woeful tale that exposes the inhuman exploitation of workers and the neglect they suffer from their unions that are meant to agitate for their interests. For how long will this continue?
Kofi Annan speaks out Africa's natural resources
Kofi Annan
2013-05-09, Issue 629
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No to military invasion of Azuzuama Community in Bayelsa state
Ayo Ademiluyi
2013-05-09, Issue 629
Instead of tackling the underlying causes of restiveness and militancy, which are mass unemployment and collapse of education, the Jonathan regime has resorted to brute force
African Union urged to uphold press freedom
Committee to Protect Journalists
2013-05-09, Issue 629
New York, May 2, 2013-The Committee to Protect Journalists asks Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, chairperson of the African Union, to uphold press freedom by calling for justice in journalist murders in Africa and for the release of all imprisoned journalists.
Violation of Freedom of Expression in Ethiopia
Arid Lands Institute
2013-05-09, Issue 629
Statement delivered at the 53rd ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights in Banjul, Gambia
NIGERIA: JUNE 19 NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
Ayo Ademiluyi
2013-05-09, Issue 629
Mass movement against education cuts, mass unemployment, pro-rich looting and obnoxious electoral laws
Sleeping in the rain
Even snakes treat us with more respect than the City of Cape Town
Abahlali baseMjondolo, Western Cape
2013-05-09, Issue 629
‘The City of Cape Town is heartless. They want us to get sick. They want to punish us for trying to do what’s best for our families, for our children. But we are not going anywhere’
Mayor warned to house poor or face being held in contempt of court
Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa
2013-05-09, Issue 629
City cannot ‘throw up hands in horror’ when asked to house the homeless, Judge says
KCA calls for enhanced security for journalists and respect for labour rights
Oloo Janak
Kenya Correspondents Association
2013-05-02, Issue 628
Whereas Kenya enjoys considerable media freedom, there are frequent reports of threats or harassment of journalists in connection with their work. Media owners violate the labour rights of journalists with impunity
Karuturi guilty of tax evasion
Global flower industry giant found breaking the law in Kenya
2013-04-24, Issue 627
Multinational used transfer mispricing to avoid paying the government of Kenya nearly US$11 million (EUR8 million) in corporate income tax
Minister of Police to pay damages to Abahlali members for police brutality
Abahlali baseMjondolo, Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI)
2013-04-24, Issue 627
Police ministry agrees to pay damages after police brutality against Abahlali baseMjondolo members in 2006
Africa Progress Panel welcomes Europe’s new rules on transparency
2013-04-24, Issue 627
New European rules move the world closer to a global standard on transparency. Now other regions and countries must follow this example.
Shining light on Bashir's crimes in an unconventional way
Julia Boccagno
BashirWatch
2013-04-24, Issue 627
Activists pile pressure on the Chadian government to prohibit international crimes suspect Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from entering the country for the fourth time
Extra-Judicial Execution of Footballer Kenneth Mwangi
Rights Promotion and Protection Centre
2013-04-24, Issue 627
On April 14, 2013 at around 17.00hrs, a police officer by the name Martin Kiteu alias 'Kin'gei' attached to Kasarani Police Station, Nairobi, confronted one Kenneth Mwangi, a footballer with Mathare United FC, over an alleged theft of a mobile phone at the Githurai stage. The officer pushed Mr. Mwangi to the ground and shot him fatally and at point blank range three or four times on the jaw, throat and head. This incident was witnessed by several people who were at the scene. Rights Promotion and Protection Centre (RPP) is deeply disturbed by the level of impunity exhibited by the police and in particular the continuation of the activities of death squads within the Kenya Police. While great strides have been made in creating the necessary legislation to reform the police, there is little reflection of this on the ground and police continue to engage in unlawful killings. Kasarani Police Station, in particular remains, a major host of the police death squads. The police station also plays host to another policeman known by the nickname ‘Denno’. RPP believes Denno was involved in unlawful shootings in the Kondele area in Kisumu during the 2007/8 post election violence. Other members of this death squad , known by their single names are:- Marel, Maiyo, Fielo and Mutisya. RPP calls upon all concerned to send a petition to the Independent Policing Oversight Authority to investigate this incident and the continuing operations of death squads in Kasarani and other areas. CONTACT Odhiambo Oyoko Executive Coordinator Rights Promotion and Protection Centre (RPP) Upperhill Gardens, Block D-14, Third Ngong Avenue off Ngong Avenue. P.O Box 4636-00200 Nairobi. Tel: 020 2692071 Cell: 0717 431 738 E-mail: rpprights@gmail.com/info@rpprights.org Website: www.rpprights.org
Kenyan rights activist nominated for international award
2013-04-24, Issue 627
Ruth Mumbi has been nominated for this years Front Line Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk. The award is to recognise outstanding contributions made by human rights activists. Ruth is one of six nominees selected from a total of 90 nominations. Two of her fellow nominees are currently in prison. Congratulations go to Ruth. Her work has included mobilisation of women around the new constitution in Kenya. She has also focused on the rights of women farmers and their communities in Kenya, facing threats from armed thugs in the process. See below her Bio from the Front Line Defenders Website. Ruth Mumbi – Kenya - is a passionate community mobiliser, and is the founder and current National Coordinator of Bunge la Wamama, a women's chapter of Bunge la Mwananchi a movement that conducts strong advocacy and campaigning on issues of social justice and accountability in different parts of Kenya. She was born and still lives in Kiamaiko, a Nairobi slum and she began her involvement in community mobilisation initiatives in the late 1990s, when she was barely 16 years of age. For more information: http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/21431
Was the fight for independence in Kenya a lost cause?
National Land Accord
2013-04-25, Issue 627
The struggle for freedom from colonialism in Kenya was based on the wish to recover lands that had been forcibly acquired by the colonial settlers. After independence, freedom fighters were not given back their land. It remains a crying shame
Jewish security organization violently assaults two women protesters
BDS South Africa
2013-04-16, Issue 626
South African activists are pressing charges against the South African Jewish Community Security Organization (CSO), the South African Zionist Federation and the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) for the recent violent assault of two young women Palestine solidarity protesters (including the daughter of a senior member from South Africa's largest trade union federation, COSATU) . One Palestine solidarity protester was left in a state of concussion due to the assault injuries.
Land rush in Europe comparable with Africa, Asia and Latin America
2013-04-17, Issue 626
Land grabbing is widely assumed to be happening only in the global South, but an in-depth analysis by a team of researchers shows that land grabbing is also expanding into Europe
Swazi civil society warns diplomats of government clamp down
Peter Kenworthy
Africa Contact
2013-04-18, Issue 626
There is likely to be a crackdown on NGOs and movements ahead of the election. Political parties are illegal in Swaziland
G8 commitment to tackle impunity for rape in conflict welcomed by human rights groups
2013-04-18, Issue 626
Although the declaration is a major political milestone in the struggle to end impunity for rape in war, not enough states have opened their doors to prosecuting grave breaches wherever they occur despite international law
GALZ MESSAGE TO MARK ZIMBABWE’S 33RD ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE
GALZ
2013-04-18, Issue 626
We are concerned that the state continues to vilify our kind and actively violates and harasses our kin. As a result our community lives in fear of violence and abuse
Tanzania: Fate of over 66,000 Maasai hangs in the balance
Minority Rights Group International
2013-04-09, Issue 625
As the fate of over 66,000 Maasai families continues to hang in the balance over a government decision to declare village lands in Loliondo as a ‘Game Controlled Area’, Minority Rights Group International (MRG) urges the government of Tanzania to halt the decision.
Kenya: New leadership should uphold rights and obligations
HRW calls for cooperation with ICC, protection of Bill of Rights
Human Rights Watch
2013-04-10, Issue 625
President and his deputy, along with Joshua arap Sang, a former radio host, face trials before the ICC on charges of committing or contributing to the commission of crimes against humanity during Kenya
Urgent Action: Sudanese detainee in danger of torture
Arry Organisation
2013-04-11, Issue 625
On April 10, 2013, Sudanese security officers arrested Sharf Eldein Tia, the nephew of Jalila Khmais, the Nuba woman activist who was been detained for 10 months before she has been released last January. Sharf Eldein arrived from Alliry area in Nuba mountains on April 3, 2013. Eyewitness informed us that he had been arrested by eight plainclothes men who identified themselves to be members of the Sudanese security. His whereabouts remain unknown. Arry organization is extremely concerned about the safety of Sharf Eldein Tia. He is in danger of torture and ill treatment in detention. We call on the Sudanese authorities to immediately release Tia and reveal his whereabouts, or present charges against him.
Kenya: Now civil society targeted in hate campaign
2013-04-03, Issue 624
Civil society organisations working in Africa call to end intimidations and hate campaigns against civil society organisations in Kenya
Bashir April lie: Dozens remain in detention
Arry Organisation
2013-04-03, Issue 624
Many prisoners, including women and children, are still held in custody most of them without charge.
Deployment of Leonean troops to Somalia imperialist
Pan-Afrikan Community Movement
2013-04-04, Issue 624
The Sierra Leonean army will be doing the biding of America’s proxy-war in Africa as mercenaries. This is a case of Africans paid to kill other Africans.
African Commission finds Zimbabwe responsible for torture of rights lawyer
REDRESSS
2013-03-28, Issue 623
The lawyer submitted more than adequate evidence to support his allegation of torture and ill-treatment, including being subjected to prolonged electric shocks in the mouth, genitals, fingers, toes and other parts of the body
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