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Angolan human rights improving? |
UNHRC points to progress and concerns |
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Time for US to change its Congo policy |
Powerful panel testifies before Senate committee |
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Uneven playing fields fosters violence |
The recent outbreak of violence in Mozambique, widely suspected to be the work of RENAMO, is deeply worrying not only for Mozambique but the whole sub-region. Already calls are being made for SADC and AU to engage with the deteriorating situation after four policemen and three civilians were killed in ambushes of a truck and two buses at the weekend. |
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40 years without parties in Swaziland |
SADC must act to end sham democracy
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We are all from here |
Anti-xenophobia campaign in South Africa
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African NGOs urge ACHPR to act on Swaziland |
Commission should push for democratic change
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ACHPR finds Zimbabwe guilty of torture |
Gabriel Shumba tortured by Zimbabwe
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Hard Road to Reform |
Zimbabweans have finally been given the opportunity to vote on a new Constitution but it has taken five long years since the Global Political Agreement (GPA) was signed. It really has been a Hard Road to Reform – the very apt title of a new book analysing developments since 2008. |
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Fighting an election ZANU style |
The past few months have seen an upsurge in attacks on civil society and this includes arrests, detentions, and office raids, confiscation of equipment and threats of more action. ZANU PF chairperson Simon Khaya Moyo was on national television making it clear that ZANU PF will not tolerate what he calls interference in national political affairs by NGOs. Moyo represents the voice and thinking of ZANU PF that human rights defenders are a nuisance that must be confronted with force. |
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Stop the abuses, decriminalise sex work |
Few people realise that sex work is legal in all southern African countries bar South Africa, which criminalises both the buying and selling of sex. However, the reality is that sex work is still criminalised across the region through laws that target related activities such as procurement, living off the earnings of prostitution, brothel-keeping, soliciting for immoral purposes, committing immoral acts in public, idle and disorderly behaviour, rogues and vagabonds etc. |
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