Follow AllAfrica News: NGOs and Civil Society, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/all-africa-news-ngo Sat, 25 Mar 2023 20:09:05 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS_9gHnWqXU9izHgrmwRGUK6 [The Herald] Recent developments in the global world of civil society organisations (CSOs) have exposed the hypocrisy of some Western countries and their local stooges in the local opposition.]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:26:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS_9gHnWqXU9izHgrmwRGUK6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS9n7JnjsVrPJJONpYks2fGs [Nyasa Times] In line with President Lazarus Chakwera's Tigwirane Manja campaign in the wake of the disaster from the effects of Cyclone Freddy, Malawi's non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the civil society (CSOs) have been asked to avoid competition behaviours and scrambling for visibility by concentrating their operations in a few easy-to-reach camps at the expense of other remote communities which receive little support.]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 09:07:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS9n7JnjsVrPJJONpYks2fGs https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS_m_ZT5TUBGO96jHbRcHw3s [FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Jackie's Foundation, a newly formed humanitarian NGO, has identified with disadvantaged youths, young men and women, who are locally referred to as 'zogos', by giving them food and other items.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:40:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS_m_ZT5TUBGO96jHbRcHw3s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS8s_Da8HAZkebG7Iy_4u0x9 [New Dawn] The leadership of the Civil Servants Association of Liberia (CSAL) is appealing to President George M. Weah not to sign into law the recent pension and benefit bill for former lawmakers passed recently by the Liberian senate.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:02:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS8s_Da8HAZkebG7Iy_4u0x9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS9ETnOsSfblO_9M7fKGWt0o [MSF] Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on governments and donors to speed up access to new, shorter, safer and more effective treatments for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). MSF joined the World Health Organization (WHO) and other organisations in a 'Call to Action' ahead of World TB Day.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:19:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS9ETnOsSfblO_9M7fKGWt0o https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS_BZVRSJnIxrGZMehmtHS8- [Namibian] INTERNATIONAL organisations have voiced their concern over the arrest of Popular Democratic Movement parliamentarian Inna Hengari.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:04:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS_BZVRSJnIxrGZMehmtHS8- https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS8SrRiAMQ8BJLb9ICM-PHur [Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Strengthening of Emerging Civil Society Organisations in Tunisia (ROSE) project was the theme of an information session at the local section of the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) seat, in Ksibet Madiouni (Governorate of Monastir)]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:58:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS8SrRiAMQ8BJLb9ICM-PHur https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS8SrRiAMQ8BJG7fhEn5oRuR [AI London] Dubbed the '2023 Anti-Homosexuality Bill', the law even criminalises those who 'promote' homosexuality or 'attempt to commit the offence of homosexuality']]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:48:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS8SrRiAMQ8BJG7fhEn5oRuR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS-osZqWhVFewrb9ICM-PHur [UNECA] Addis Ababa, 21 March 2023 (ECA) - Africa should deploy innovative resource mobilization and accelerate economic recovery from multiple crises which have eroded two decades of development gains and increased poverty, Ministers of Finance have urged.]]> Wed, 22 Mar 2023 11:51:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS-osZqWhVFewrb9ICM-PHur https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS-vo_UsEieqFgVLTsI7B9NX [AI] Amnesty International offices around the world will today deliver petitions signed by more than 200,000 people to Israeli authorities, calling on them to put an end to the demolition of Palestinian homes as a first step towards dismantling apartheid. Amnesty International's petition, Demolish Apartheid, Not Palestinian Homes, is addressed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and has been signed by people in at least 174 countries.]]> Wed, 22 Mar 2023 10:26:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS-vo_UsEieqFgVLTsI7B9NX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS-vo_UsEieqFuQEmsPXZ5C9 [MSF] Ten years after the start of the third civil war in the Central African Republic, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teamed up with photographer Adrienne Surprenant to meet Central African families to capture the consequences of these years of violence.]]> Wed, 22 Mar 2023 10:03:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS-vo_UsEieqFuQEmsPXZ5C9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS87y_t1CzmdgMqq6eZJzUh9 [AI London] An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report issued today, which warns that global warming this century is on course to exceed an agreed 1.5°C limit without drastic and immediate cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, must accelerate the phasing out of fossil fuels, Amnesty International said.]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:40:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS87y_t1CzmdgMqq6eZJzUh9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS_v4EJt3eqy1cqq6eZJzUh9 [AI London] Amnesty International collected testimonies alleging excessive use of force by Sierra Leonean security forces to crack down on protests which turned violent in Freetown, Makeni and Kamakwie in August 2022, in which six police officers and more than 20 protesters and bystanders were killed, including at least two women. Yet, it took more than two months for the State to release the non-police bodies for their burial, Amnesty International said today after having investigated the events.]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:37:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS_v4EJt3eqy1cqq6eZJzUh9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS90yV0zB5qy7a7VFky8BpXO [AI] In reaction to the release of the State Department's annual human rights reports today, Amnesty International USA Executive Director Paul O'Brien said, "when Secretary of State Blinken announced the US foreign policy strategy, he said it would be one centered in human rights, yet the annual human rights report demonstrates that the Biden Administration continues a policy of double standards when it comes to failing to call out the human rights abuses of key security partners."]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2023 05:54:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS90yV0zB5qy7a7VFky8BpXO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS-zGoqC0CrUkMfGo0LrnZNO [HRW] Human Rights Watch submission to the Uganda Parliament Committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023]]> Mon, 20 Mar 2023 12:33:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS-zGoqC0CrUkMfGo0LrnZNO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS_OUbJvlhvHcVhGNgNo2_0q [New Dawn] MAP Liberia on Thursday, 16 March 2023 ended a one-day workshop in Congo Town on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT).]]> Mon, 20 Mar 2023 12:13:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS_OUbJvlhvHcVhGNgNo2_0q https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS9ru4H3k2JAu0ZPHFZJLI3I [AI London] In response to the violent repression of nationwide peaceful protests to remember the fallen musician Azagaia by the Mozambican police, including beating up of protesters, teargassing and targeting organizers for their role in organizing the rallies, Amnesty International's Deputy Director for East and Southern Africa, Emerlynn Gill, said:]]> Sat, 18 Mar 2023 19:23:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS9ru4H3k2JAu0ZPHFZJLI3I https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS8R_TYVWjLo0rkdRKkm2PJP [AI London] On 5 March, an emergency court sentenced Aisha el-Shater and her husband lawyer Mohamed Abo Horeira to ten and 15 years in prison, respectively. They were convicted on bogus charges stemming from their family links and peaceful exercise of their human rights following a grossly unfair trial.]]> Sat, 18 Mar 2023 08:13:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS8R_TYVWjLo0rkdRKkm2PJP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS-weVdtvwtlhUFW8UNEQjUn [AI London] The Senegalese authorities are intensifying repression ahead of the 2024 presidential election by cracking down on human rights, restricting civic space, banning protests and detaining a journalist and opposition figures, Amnesty International said today.]]> Sat, 18 Mar 2023 08:05:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS-weVdtvwtlhUFW8UNEQjUn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS9tg3WtEeYumkGb1Jh49AJn [FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- A Cross section of Concerned Civil Society actors particularly women-led organizations are concerned about the status of the amended New Elections Law (NEL) on the 30% gender quota.]]> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 12:42:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/OA1LNhRACS9tg3WtEeYumkGb1Jh49AJn