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RIGHTS: In South Africa, Zimbabwean Refugees Find Sanctuary and Contempt By Michael Deibert JOHANNESBURG - As the autumn sun sets over South Africa's most populous city, the halls of downtown Johannesburg's Central Methodist Mission fill with weary figures, many far from home, seeking solace within its walls. MORE >>
DR CONGO: With Rebel Leader's Indictment, a Tentative Step to Accountability By Michael Deibert JOHANNESBURG - The indictment against a militia leader whose alleged abuses span the Democratic Republic of Congo's war-ravaged east was finally made public at the end of April, almost two years after being delivered under seal to war crimes prosecutors. MORE >>
Q&A: Labour "Has to Weigh Up the Trade-offs" in Acting to Protect Workers By Interview with Steven Friedman CAPE TOWN - Co-operation between the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and forerunners of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) goes back several decades to the early days of efforts to end racial discrimination in South Africa. MORE >>
AFRICA: South Africa Welcomes Cuban Doctors By Stephanie Nieuwoudt CAPE TOWN - For more than a decade, Cuban doctors have filled part of a gap left by South African doctors who in large numbers leave the country looking for better salaries and employment opportunities. MORE >>
AFRICA: Millions of Children Falling Through the Cracks By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS - A significant proportion of the world's 2.2 billion children, many of whom are victims of violence, sexual abuse, labour exploitation and preventable diseases, are from the crisis-plagued African continent. MORE >>
POLITICS: African Gov'ts Reject U.N. Intervention in Zimbabwe By Haider Rizvi UNITED NATIONS - Despite mounting pressure from some major Western powers to intervene in Zimbabwe's electoral crisis, U.N. involvement remains a distant possibility. MORE >>
RIGHTS: Tanzanian Farmers Face Eviction By Tarjei Kidd Olsen OSLO - A Norwegian cement company wants to evict an estimated 3,000 Tanzanian farmers it says are trespassing on its land. The farmers say their families have lived there for generations, and that they were not consulted when the land was sold. After 16 years of conflict Tanzania's highest court is due to reach a verdict soon. MORE >>
POLITICS-DRC: Cautious Calm Settles Over War-Scarred Ituri Region By Michael Deibert BOGORO - Wading through the chest-high grass outside of this hamlet in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Mathieu Nyakufa gestures to the bones -- still bleaching in the sun -- of those who have been lost to the country's wars. MORE >>
POLITICS: U.N. Sees Peacekeeping Success in Liberia By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations, which is battling a rash of political and logistical problems in its troubled peace missions in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, is rejoicing over the relative success of its peacekeeping operations in the once war-ravaged Liberia. MORE >>
POLITICS: Democracy Unfinished By Miriam Mannak CAPE TOWN - A new report by the Geneva-based Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) has shown that women are changing the priorities and sometimes the tone of legislatures around the world. But, it also highlights the slow pace at which the number of parliamentary seats held by women is increasing. MORE >>
MIDEAST: Africans Lost in 'The Promised Land' By Zack Baddorf TEL AVIV - The young man who agreed to be called Hamed has come a long way to do nothing. The Ivoirian would prefer to work but, after sneaking into Israel from Egypt about a month ago, he's got nothing better to do than sit in a park everyday in central Tel Aviv, wait, and hope for a government decision on his refugee application. MORE >>
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African Commission on Human Rights and Peoples' Rights
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South African Human Rights Commission
IDASA - Institute for Democracy in South Africa
