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 Thu, 01 Dec 2022 22:48:51 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBx91-6ucOOWxFT72x6uxjiK [The Point] The National Council for Civic Education (NCCE) in collaboration with The Gambia Federation for the Disable (GFD) with funding from UNICEF and Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPDO) last Saturday began a nationwide stakeholder's sensitisation on Persons with Disability (PWDs) Act 2021 at Essau, Lower Nuimi District, North Bank Region.]]> Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:28:49 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBx91-6ucOOWxFT72x6uxjiK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxwXXLaMOedPyRFMxTa8z4W [allAfrica] Cape Town -- The Eastern Cape High Court has reserved judgment in the leave to appeal application by the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Impact Africa and Shell, Engineering News reports. The parties sought to appeal a ruling by the Makhanda High Court handed down in September, 2022 which found that the right granted to Shell to perform a seismic survey off the Wild Coast, an ecologically sensitive area, was unlawful.]]> Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:19:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxwXXLaMOedPyRFMxTa8z4W https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBzTvuaxXZTxWzHgrmwRGUK6 [HRW] Abuja -- Ghana's government has taken inadequate steps to end the chaining and inhumane treatment of people with real or perceived mental health conditions - psychosocial disabilities - in faith-based and traditional healing centers despite a 2017 ban on such treatment, Human Rights Watch said today.]]> Thu, 01 Dec 2022 08:01:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBzTvuaxXZTxWzHgrmwRGUK6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmByQLX-u6g_7F3KSkciKEY1s [DW] Human rights activists and organizations were honored for their role in promoting peace and justice. The Swedish-based award is often dubbed the Alternative Nobel Prize.]]> Thu, 01 Dec 2022 07:55:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmByQLX-u6g_7F3KSkciKEY1s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmByQLX-u6g_7F0GT5aWO9DEx [DW] Somali-born Fartuun Adan and her daughter Ilwad Elman are in Stockholm to receive the 2022 Right Livelihood Award. They have been honored for their fight for human rights despite facing dangers.]]> Thu, 01 Dec 2022 07:47:40 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmByQLX-u6g_7F0GT5aWO9DEx https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBwHzYncgjwGb6gHTd9OkkKt [FrontPageAfrica] The President of Students Against Corruption, Daniel K. Dennis and several civil rights activists have called on the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States Congress to lead the process of passing the Youth Peace & Security Act.]]> Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:51:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBwHzYncgjwGb6gHTd9OkkKt https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBytyESw1vQ80UGT5aWO9DEx [Ghanaian Times] Investigative Journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni, was yesterday called to testify as the first witness for the Special Prosecutor (SP) in the case in which the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) Adjenim Boateng Adjei is standing trial for procurement breaches.]]> Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:05:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBytyESw1vQ80UGT5aWO9DEx https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBytyESw1vQ80YIAmcWJ0TmB [New Dawn] The National Aids Commission (NAC) has called on the government here to repeal all existing HIV-related discriminatory laws, regulations, and policies.]]> Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:48:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBytyESw1vQ80YIAmcWJ0TmB https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBz-4_DqI8ujjRKeetMRuZbW [Leadership] It is estimated that Nigeria now has about 20 million out-of-school children, if the latest global data on the subject by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is anything to go by. The number, it is pertinent to point out, constitutes 10 per cent of the country's 200 million population and should not be ignored.]]> Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:25:25 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBz-4_DqI8ujjRKeetMRuZbW https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBwmkC6jJRsckuifqJurszLU [Ghanaian Times] The Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) yesterday held stakeholder engagement to deliberate on key aspects of the 2021 CHRAJ bill that needed to be amended.]]> Tue, 29 Nov 2022 12:23:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBwmkC6jJRsckuifqJurszLU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBz1GUQKnsU_OAO5yOwvVe_2 [New Republic] ... ..-Zoes React To Call To Ban The Practice]]> Tue, 29 Nov 2022 09:58:56 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBz1GUQKnsU_OAO5yOwvVe_2 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBz1GUQKnsU_OLmyhX6zo8SW [African Union] African Union Commission in partnership with UNDP Regional Service Centre for Africa, and Equality Now, within the framework of the Spotlight Initiative Africa Regional Programme, held a three-day Regional Training of Trainers (ToT) Workshop from the 17th to 19th November 2022 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Over 30 regional and national stakeholders from the African Union Commission, the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) of ECOWAS, IGAD, SADC, and EAC, regional parliamentarians as well as representatives fro]]> Tue, 29 Nov 2022 09:36:26 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBz1GUQKnsU_OLmyhX6zo8SW https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBzTkM7qPe8h027fhEn5oRuR [VOA] Blantyre, Malawi -- The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, says it "deeply regrets" Malawi's decision to force about 8,000 refugees living in rural and urban areas back to the overcrowded Dzaleka refugee camp. Malawi's minister of homeland security last week said the forced relocations would start after November 30, when a deadline expires on voluntary returns.]]> Tue, 29 Nov 2022 08:40:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBzTkM7qPe8h027fhEn5oRuR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBzJxkL8xQei6Soxzwoq1nFt [IPS] Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- The 17th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), to be hosted by the Government of Ethiopia with the support of UN ECA and UN DESA, will take place from 28 November to 2 December 2022 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under the overarching theme "Resilient Internet for a Shared Sustainable and Common Future". There are five themes that guide the agenda of the meeting, drawn from the Global Digital Compact found in the UN Secretary-General's report on "Our Common Agenda".]]> Tue, 29 Nov 2022 07:18:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBzJxkL8xQei6Soxzwoq1nFt https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxhtJzJsZybz2W0GqTRQSgk [Dabanga] Khartoum -- 69 women and human rights groups organised a protest sit-in in front of the buildings of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNCHR) in Khartoum, to condemn the recent violence in Wad El Mahi in Blue Nile region and Lagawa in West Kordofan.]]> Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:26:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxhtJzJsZybz2W0GqTRQSgk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxhtJzJsZybz0QqW5gBv7mX [FrontPageAfrica] "Stop Grotesque Practices"]]> Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:19:05 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxhtJzJsZybz0QqW5gBv7mX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBz3OiXBVs77F5NaYRWadcX6 [Ghanaian Times] Last Updated: November 28, 2022]]> Mon, 28 Nov 2022 15:16:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBz3OiXBVs77F5NaYRWadcX6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBwmW-gRILPMNsqq6eZJzUh9 [Spotlight Initiative] Mogovolas -- With notebooks in her arms and a bright smile, Maria*, 16, is getting ready for another school day. She is in the 9th grade in Mogovolas district, Nampula province, Mozambique, and dreams of becoming a nurse.]]> Mon, 28 Nov 2022 15:06:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBwmW-gRILPMNsqq6eZJzUh9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBziQqRbjrVp7R-xWH3zZqEA [HRW] Migrant Workers from South Asia and Africa Deserve Compensation for Wage Theft, Injuries, and Death]]> Mon, 28 Nov 2022 12:16:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBziQqRbjrVp7R-xWH3zZqEA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxOoDjBbtK5Igm0QkxGtqLL [Nyasa Times] A parliamentarian says the government should investigate thoroughly if those graves of 30 people who were buried in mass graves in Mzimba were not on a mission to kill persons with albinism.]]> Mon, 28 Nov 2022 11:19:57 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yvbIVpVYmBxOoDjBbtK5Igm0QkxGtqLL