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Darfuri activist imprisoned, deportation feared
2012-05-16, Issue 585
Although Egypt is a signatory to international refugee conventions, it refuses to allow refugees to work in Egypt, often denies them residency, imprisons them without due process, and harasses their community leaders.
We support KNHRC's recommendations on gays, sex workers
Release Political Prisoners Trust press statement
2012-05-16, Issue 585
‘We oppose any attempt by sections of the religious sector to stifle informed, open and honest public debate on this important issue on the basis of their own perceptions and beliefs on private morality.’
Nigeria: MASSOB condemns imprisonment of members
Okodili Ndidi
2012-05-16, Issue 585
The members were jailed for wearing the regalia of the defunct Republic of Biafra.
Call for the World Social Forum Free Palestine
29 Nov.-1st December 2012 in Porto Alegre, Brazil
2012-05-16, Issue 585
The WSF Free Palestine will be a global encounter of broad-based popular and civil society mobilizations.
Palestinian prisoners score heroic victory
2012-05-16, Issue 585
Struggle to end Israel’s oppression and international complicity continues.
Artist Zanele Muholi's photography of LGBTQI Africans stolen
2012-05-17, Issue 585
‘I’ve dedicated my entire life to documenting queer lives. I wanted to make sure I document (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) lives. All my major projects are gone.’ -Zanele Muholi, Cape Town
Trans Support Initiative - Uganda commemorates the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia(IDAHOT)
2012-05-17, Issue 585
Transgender and intersex people in Uganda face physical and verbal abuse, are denied access to health services, are victims of blackmail and extortion as well as unlawful arrests and mob justice.
An open letter to President Obama on the eve of talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi at Camp David
Oakland Institute
2012-05-17, Issue 585
Large-Scale Land Investments are violating human rights and undermine food security in Ethiopia.
Rio+20: International campaign of struggles
Peoples of the World against the commodification of Nature
La Via Campesina
2012-05-08, Issue 584
La Via Campesina calls on all the peasant organizations of the world and their allies to organize actions in the month of June.
The draft Lusaka Declaration on mainstreaming organic agriculture into the African development dgenda
2012-05-09, Issue 584
Organic Agriculture combines tradition, innovation and science to benefit the shared environment and promote fair relationships and a good quality of life for all involved.
Progressive NGOs must learn to engage our movements as equals
2012-05-09, Issue 584
'We want to make it clear that we want to have good working relationship with all progressive or potentially progressive forces. However, this does not mean that we can accept being oppressed within our own struggle.'
SA court orders investigation into crimes in Zimbabwe
2012-05-09, Issue 584
High Court orders South African authorities to investigate crimes against humanity committed by state officials in Zimbabwe.
African Liberation Day: A celebration of resistance
Friday May 25th 5-9PM at Ufungamano Centre Nairobi
2012-05-10, Issue 584
'As we look forward to celebrating the 54th anniversary of Africa Liberation Day, we look back to its founding principles to assess and plan the onward progress of the African revolution.'
“Take the Seed Back” - International support for Take The Flour Back
2012-05-10, Issue 584
'Beneath the rhetoric that GM is the key to feeding a hungry world, there is a very different story - a story of control and profit.'
Guinea Bissau: NGOs condemn coup
2012-05-10, Issue 584
Statement of a group of National and International NGOs in Guinea Bissau concerning the Coup d'e tat of April 12, 2012.
Land grabbing: White farmers still practice black spot policy
Mshwathi Community
2012-05-10, Issue 584
Though apartheid ended on paper, black South Africans in uMshwathi continue to struggle against being uprooted from farmlands by white land grabbers.
Somalia: PACM opposes deployment of Sierra Leonean troops
2012-05-10, Issue 584
Sending troops to Somalia will be seen as furthering the agenda of imperialists. The idea of Africans fighting Africans is abhorrent.
Heroic Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega, Turkish publisher honoured
Writers pledge, “We will never forget you”
PEN American Center
2012-05-03, Issue 583
Nega’s wife, who has been jailed herself for her journalism, said she was accepting the award on behalf of her husband “at a time when freedom of expression and press freedoms are at the lowest point in Ethiopia.”
Algerians in the UK to stage protest
Algeria Solidarity Campaign
2012-05-03, Issue 583
Algeria Solidarity Campaign (ASC) calls for a protest in front of the Algerian Consulate on Saturday, May 5th at 3pm. Address: 6 Hyde Park Gate, SW7 5EW (5min from High Street Kensington Station).
Sankara and Charles Taylor cases
International Justice for Sankara Campaign
2012-04-26, Issue 582
On April 26, 2012 in Ouagadougou, a hearing on the presumed confinement of Thomas Sankara was put off until May 24, 2012 by the judge because the general rapporteur would be absent on a mission. The complaint was first filed in 2002 by Me Dieudonnée Nkounkou and has been pending in the courts of Burkina. It has since been pursued by CIJS lawyers Sankara and Farama. The room was filled with Sankarists and curious onlookers who sang the national anthem and then booed the bench when the judge delayed the case. On April 25, 2012, after five years on trial at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Charles Taylor—suspected of being involved in the disappearance of Thomas Sankara—was found criminally responsible for having abetted and ordered crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone. This makes Charles Taylor the first former head of State to be convicted by an international court. Meanwhile, the International Justice for Sankara Campaign is still waiting from the State party Burkina Faso to follow up on a request for a DNA forensic report as a follow up stipulated in the UN decision. The CIJS wishes to thank all those who have shown their support in this 15-year struggle against impunity and calls for ongoing general mobilization.
Land grabbing in Mali: Farmers arrested
CNOP, UACDDDD, CAD, LJDH and AOPP against land grabbing
La Via Campesina
2012-04-25, Issue 582
Community distressed after four of their leaders, including the village chief, are arrested.
Tunisia: Mounting attacks on freedom of expression
Amnesty International
2012-04-25, Issue 582
Amnesty International considers all individuals convicted solely for their peacefully held views to be prisoners of conscience and calls for their immediate and unconditional release.
Tell Shell's CEO: Stop profiting from human rights abuse.
Own up and pay up for the devastation in Nigeria.
Amnesty International
2012-04-25, Issue 582
Add your name to Amnesty's petition demanding justice for the people harmed by Shell in the Niger Delta.
Reclaim the UN from corporate capture!
2012-04-25, Issue 582
Sign the civil society statement and join the campaign to stop UN corporate capture!
President Obama’s green light to FTA is a red flag for Afro-Colombians
2012-04-18, Issue 581
As President Obama seems to be ready to give a green light to Colombia for the implementation of the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement this weekend, under the guise of improvements in labour conditions and human rights, the Black Communities Process in Colombia (PCN) raises the question: what will it take for the Obama administration to understand the severity of Afro-Colombians’ human rights?
Sundiata Acoli wins appeal and is up for parole again
2012-04-19, Issue 581
Attorney Bruce Afran's appeal of Sundiata Acoli's parole-denial and 10 year hit resulted in the New Jersey Appellate Court's remand to the NJ Parole Board that its 10 year hit be cut to 2 years. It was done and Sundiata has become immediately eligible for a parole hearing again.
France: Move quickly on Equatorial Guinea warrant
Son of president facing money laundering charges
2012-04-19, Issue 581
(Paris, April 12, 2012) – The French Ministry of Justice should move swiftly to issue an international arrest warrant for the son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea, EG Justice, Human Rights Watch, and SHERPA said today. On April 11, 2012, judicial sources confirmed that a French public prosecutor has endorsed the request of investigating magistrates to issue a warrant for Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue (“Teodorín”) over allegations of money laundering in connection with his lavish purchases in France.
Human rights monitoring in Western Sahara and in camps in Tindouf, Algeria
2012-04-19, Issue 581
This is a letter Human Rights Watch sent to all 15 members of the UN Security Council on human rights monitoring in Western Sahara and in camps in Tindouf, Algeria.
International Day of Peasant's Struggle sees mass mobilisation
2012-04-19, Issue 581
Small scale farmers mobilised against the corporate take over of the food chain on 17 April, reports this press release from La Via Campesina.
Response to forcible seizure of freedom
Swaziland Economic Justice Network
2012-04-19, Issue 581
In Swaziland intimidation and coercion by the state are a frightening reality.
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