News from category: Human Rights
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Mass graves dug in Jos after the last wave of violence in January 2010 (file photo)
ABUJA, 8 March 2010 (IRIN) – Hundreds of people in the city of Jos, 350km northeast of …
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Voter casts ballot in Togo’s already disputed 4 March presidential election
LOMÉ, 6 March 2010 (IRIN) – Victory claims by two presidential candidates and continued threats of violence from the opposition are keeping …
NAIROBI, 5 March 2010 (IRIN) – Here are the most popular new articles on the IRIN website over the last 24 hours. Updated hourly. This feature was launched on 18 July, but will display the …
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Poll worker in Togo’s 2010 presidential election in the capital, Lomé, on voting day
LOMÉ, 4 March 2010 (IRIN) – As up to 3.2 million Togolese cast their ballots in the presidential …
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Observers in place for 4 March presidential election
LOMÉ, 3 March 2010 (IRIN) – More than 3,000 local election observers, 6,000 soldiers, and representatives of international election transparency watchdog groups are scattered across …
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Lindela Repatriation Centre
JOHANNESBURG , 26 February 2010 (IRIN) – South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal ordered the Department of Home Affairs on 24 February 2010 to immediately release an Ethiopian asylum seeker …
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A girl should be able to marry at age 15, Mali’s Islamic council says as part of proposed changes to the family code (file photo)
BAMAKO, 26 February 2010 (IRIN) – A husband …
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Thousands of Zimbabwean children are on the move
PRETORIA, 26 February 2010 (IRIN) – Zimbabwe’s still-limping economy can provide few essential services, so children living along the border cross into South Africa …
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Some of those displaced: Goma hosted about 140,000 IDPs in camps at the height of violence in North Kivu in 2008 and 2009, according to UNHCR (file photo)
GOMA, 22 February 2010 (IRIN) …
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Some of those displaced: Goma hosted about 140,000 IDPs in camps at the height of violence in North Kivu in 2008 and 2009, according to UNHCR (file photo)
GOMA, 22 February 2010 (IRIN) …
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President Robert Mugabe remains unwelcome in Europe
JOHANNESBURG, 16 February 2010 (IRIN) – The European Union’s decision to extend sanctions against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and senior members of the ruling …
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The association of genocide widows , Avega Agahozo, says sexual violence was used to humiliate, degrade and abuse women during the genocide (file photo)
KIGALI, 11 February 2010 (IRIN) – Sixteen years after …
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Xenophobia fuelled by poor governance
JOHANNESBURG , 9 February 2010 (IRIN) – Foreign nationals are being attacked with “impunity” in South Africa, a leading human rights organization charged as the latest service delivery …
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People displaced by fighting in North Kivu (file photo)
NAIROBI, 8 February 2010 (IRIN) – Internally displaced people (IDPs) are still being abducted by armed groups for forced labour in several territories …
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Niger Delta states
ABUJA, 4 February 2010 (IRIN) – Despite abundant oil wealth in the Niger Delta region in southeast Nigeria, residents lack basic services including electricity, piped water, health clinics and schools. The …
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Women and children fleeing past outbreaks of violence in Plateau state (file photo)
KANO, 1 February 2010 (IRIN) – If the Nigerian authorities fail to punish those responsible for the latest intercommunal violence, they …
