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Why Are More Women Opting for Illegal Abortion?

Why Are More Women Opting for Illegal Abortion?

Fifteen-year-old Uwamahoro (not real name) has been living at Marembo Centre in Kigali for two years. The centre is a non-governmental organisation which supports and rehabilitates young people who have been orphaned, neglected or abused. Uwamahoro was raped by a stranger in 2013 and she ended up pregnant. Uwamahoro contemplated carrying out an abortion, but […]

South Sudan women accuse soldiers of rape – govt cautions against believing claims

South Sudan women accuse soldiers of rape – govt cautions against believing claims

The displaced women of Bentiu have horrific stories to tell. They came from villages in Unity State in South Sudan. When recalling home, one of the first things they’ll mention, and with pride, is that they owned cattle. Cattle are South Sudanese gold. The greater the number of cows one owns, the higher the social […]

Gambian Court Denies Taranga FM Manager Abdoulie Ceesay Bail

Gambian Court Denies Taranga FM Manager Abdoulie Ceesay Bail

The lower court in Banjul presided over by Principal Magistrate Momodou M.S. Jallow yesterday, 5th of August, 2015 refused bail to Abdoulie Ceesay, Managing Director of Taranga FM. Mr. Ceesay was arraigned on August 4 and charged with a single count of ‘Seditious intention’ contrary to section 51 (1) (d) of the Criminal Code, laws […]

Amnesty International Wants ICC to Intervene in Libya

Amnesty International Wants ICC to Intervene in Libya

Calling for an end to “an epidemic of kidnapping blighting” Libya, Amnesty International has faulted the International Criminal Court (ICC) for failing to undertake any investigations into crimes under international law committed by armed groups in the last four years. Amnesty, a global movement of more than 7 million people fighting injustice and defending human […]

Algeria’s Support to Sahrawi People’s Struggle Is Based On Principles of Its Foreign Policy

Algeria’s Support to Sahrawi People’s Struggle Is Based On Principles of Its Foreign Policy

The Speaker of the People’s National Assembly Mohamed Larbi Ould Khelifa affirmed Sunday, in Algiers, that Algeria’s support to the struggle of the Sahrawi people “is based on the unchanging principles of its foreign policy.” In an audience granted to a delegation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), led by the governor of Laayoune […]

Reports from Western Sahara make clear Moroccan authorities continue to commit serious human rights violations

Reports from Western Sahara make clear Moroccan authorities continue to commit serious human rights violations

Reports from Western Sahara make clear that Moroccan authorities continue to commit serious human rights violations against the Sahrawi people, said RFK Center for Human Rights. According to an article posted on its site, in its latest report on human rights violations in Western Sahara between January and June 2015, RFK Center said “reports from […]

Morocco Should Lift Bureaucratic Obstacles – Harassment of Outspoken Journalist

Morocco Should Lift Bureaucratic Obstacles – Harassment of Outspoken Journalist

Moroccan authorities should lift bureaucratic obstacles that have prevented an outspoken journalist and satirist, Ali Lmrabet, from publishing a new publication, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today. On June 24, Lmrabet went on a hunger strike in front of the United Nations headquarters in Geneva to protest the refusal by the local administration […]

‘Man of God’ Rapes Woman Until She Faints

‘Man of God’ Rapes Woman Until She Faints

A woman who was allegedly raped by Johane Marange Simon branch leader Clement Momberume after being drugged, has said that she passed out during the sexual assault. Taking to the witness stand before senior regional magistrate Mark Dzira on Thursday, the woman who is a second wife of Momberume’s nephew, said she passed out during […]

Zambia Ritual Killings Cause of Concern

Zambia Ritual Killings Cause of Concern

Barely two weeks after the shocking murder of an albino woman in Lundazi, another teenage girl of Kapiri Mposhi has been brutally murdered in yet another unnerving sequel of suspected random ritual killings. The body of the girl was found naked with her tongue and both breasts ripped off. Enough is enough. We would love […]

Revealed – Sex Secrets of South Africa’s Gay Students

Revealed – Sex Secrets of South Africa’s Gay Students

Gay flag for a ‘queer’ South Africa The sex genie is out of the bottle when it comes to male students who engage in sex with men (MSM) in South Africa. The study, the first of its kind in South Africa, was conducted by the Higher Education and Training HIV/AIDS Programme (HEAIDS) and the Networking […]

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