Follow AllAfrica News: Human Rights, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/all-africa-news-human-rights Sun, 19 Sep 2021 22:41:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxR6hYSGvYF8nMq2h3ehXEp [DW] A Rwandan court is expected to issue a verdict on Paul Rusesabagina. His story, in which he saved scores of people during the Rwandan genocide, inspired the film 'Hotel Rwanda,' but now Kigali accuses him of terrorism.]]> Sun, 19 Sep 2021 16:53:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxR6hYSGvYF8nMq2h3ehXEp https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxR6hYSGvYF8lLv-B9hV9S2 [GroundUp] The City used to provide kits swiftly for fire victims but the end of a grant means that SASSA has taken this over, and help comes much slower]]> Sun, 19 Sep 2021 12:35:54 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxR6hYSGvYF8lLv-B9hV9S2 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxR6hYSGvYF8rDXWBZfdr71 [Thomson Reuters Foundation] Rounded up in mass raids in Abu Dhabi, Cameroonian expatriate workers were deported home - only to face fighting and the prospect of exile]]> Sun, 19 Sep 2021 11:59:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxR6hYSGvYF8rDXWBZfdr71 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxR6hYSGvYF8htLdxSOwF-n [The Conversation Africa] The role that human rights should play in South Africa's economic policy has been the subject of intense controversy and debate over the past year. This, after the finance ministry announced spending cuts in its Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement while the COVID-19 pandemic was ravaging lives and livelihoods.]]> Sun, 19 Sep 2021 11:57:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxR6hYSGvYF8htLdxSOwF-n https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBw8wX-HOT1jMQp41t9tiERU [New Frame] Our history of violence accumulates into the present as time slips by, and taints the future too. There must be decisive action against all political murders, old and new alike.]]> Sun, 19 Sep 2021 11:21:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBw8wX-HOT1jMQp41t9tiERU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBw8wX-HOT1jMUTXPGaG87AR [New Frame] Joao Rodrigues and Paul Erasmus both worked for the apartheid regime and died this year. But while Rodrigues was litigious and tight-lipped, Erasmus tried to help victims' families.]]> Sun, 19 Sep 2021 11:19:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBw8wX-HOT1jMUTXPGaG87AR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBw8wX-HOT1jMcqq6eZJzUh9 [New Frame] The personal stakes are high for the activists - some willing, others reluctant - behind the historic reckoning for LGBTQIA+ rights in the country.]]> Sun, 19 Sep 2021 11:10:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBw8wX-HOT1jMcqq6eZJzUh9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBw8wX-HOT1jMSxhxzpi7FpJ [UNFPA] JUBA, South Sudan--To make a difference in the lives of youth, government funding and multi-sectoral action are required to implement the nation's commitments to sexual and reproductive health, said First Vice President, Riek Machar. He was speaking at a high-level meeting on commitments made by South Sudan at the Nairobi Summit on the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 2019.]]> Sun, 19 Sep 2021 11:04:58 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBw8wX-HOT1jMSxhxzpi7FpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBw8wX-HOT1jMTErtZyObPkc [Nation] Judy Kihumba is a sign language interpreter and an advocate of maternal mental health and wellness of deaf nursing mums. She is also the founder of Talking Hands, Listening Eyes on PPD (THLEP), which focuses on walking the motherhood journey with deaf mums and breaking the silence on postpartum depression (PPD).]]> Sun, 19 Sep 2021 11:00:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBw8wX-HOT1jMTErtZyObPkc https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxsm2GRSkgEOe-bbeigX9oC [RSF] On 18 September 2001, Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki took advantage of the fact that the world was still stunned by the 9/11 terrorist attacks to transform his country into a dictatorship and ban all independent media. On the 20th anniversary of his crackdown in Eritrea, which is still a news and information black hole, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release of all imprisoned journalists and urges Eritrea's partner countries to pressure its government to lift the life sentence it impose]]> Sat, 18 Sep 2021 14:29:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxsm2GRSkgEOe-bbeigX9oC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxsm2GRSkgEOQO5yOwvVe_2 [Addis Standard] By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a)), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,]]> Sat, 18 Sep 2021 14:26:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxsm2GRSkgEOQO5yOwvVe_2 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxsm2GRSkgEOXKSkciKEY1s [GroundUp] State must provide court with reports every six months with details of steps taken to eradicate pit toilets]]> Sat, 18 Sep 2021 14:18:03 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxsm2GRSkgEOXKSkciKEY1s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxsm2GRSkgEOUGT5aWO9DEx [CPJ] New York -- Angolan authorities should not contest the appeal of journalist Carlos Alberto against his prison sentence and fine, and should stop pursuing criminal defamation cases against members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.]]> Sat, 18 Sep 2021 14:13:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxsm2GRSkgEOUGT5aWO9DEx https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBzyaAAlvJlPGSxhxzpi7FpJ [HRW] UN Security Council, Regional Bodies, Other Countries Should Also Target Rights Abusers]]> Sat, 18 Sep 2021 13:59:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBzyaAAlvJlPGSxhxzpi7FpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBzyaAAlvJlPGbDXWBZfdr71 [The Herald] Global DNA Diagnostic Centre principal consultant Mr Tinashe Mugabe is not professionally qualified to issue DNA test results, the Medical Laboratory and Clinical Scientists Council of Zimbabwe (MLCSCZ) has said, urging the public not to be coerced into receiving paternity results in an unprofessional manner.]]> Sat, 18 Sep 2021 12:31:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBzyaAAlvJlPGbDXWBZfdr71 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxkQUd9xGfInZONpYks2fGs [Daily Trust] An Oyo state High Court has ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to pay N20 billion to self-acclaimed Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho.]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:57:57 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxkQUd9xGfInZONpYks2fGs https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxcdeTus_ZTXUoy9CZgXDJO [This Day] The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Human Rights. Hon. John Dyegh, has emphasised the importance of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in nation building.]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:12:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxcdeTus_ZTXUoy9CZgXDJO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxcdeTus_ZTXWFk24e89-qg [IPS] Bonn, Germany -- Policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis have exacerbated rather than reduced global inequalities. On the one hand, the net wealth of billionaires has risen to record levels since the outbreak of the pandemic (increasing by more than US$ 5 trillion to US$ 13.1 trillion from 2020 to 2021), on the other hand, the number of people living in extreme poverty has also increased massively (by approx. 100 million to 732 million in 2020).]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:08:58 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxcdeTus_ZTXWFk24e89-qg https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxcdeTus_ZTXWW0GqTRQSgk [African Arguments] Across Africa and much of the world, laws passed in the wake of the US attacks have been misused to silence dissent.]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 13:54:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxcdeTus_ZTXWW0GqTRQSgk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxcdeTus_ZTXc4HQhe4ZUzd [Egypt Online] Assistant Foreign Minister for Human Rights and International Social and Humanitarian Issues Ambassador Alaa Roshdy said Egypt was resolved to continue pushing forward the human rights conditions and build on the progress that has already been achieved over the past phase in accordance with a unified national strategy.]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:29:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxcdeTus_ZTXc4HQhe4ZUzd