Author: Jean
Published:
25
Nov
2011
Human Rights Watch calls on Moroccan authorities to stop harassing those campaigning for a boycott of elections.
Morocco
News
Author: Jean
Published:
16
Nov
2011
Top judge condemns the practice of filing holding charges against accused persons and “trial by public parade of suspects on pages of newspapers and on the television” and blames the practice for congestion in prisons.
News
Nigeria
Author: calitz
Published:
14
Nov
2011
On 14 November, CSPRI researcher, Gwénaëlle Dereymaeker, presented the CSPRI submission on the Implementation of the Geneva Conventions Bill B10-2011 before Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans.
ACJR News
News
Author: Jean
Published:
11
Nov
2011
Human Rights Watch called on the Guinean government to investigate the role of two high-level officials in the apparent illegal detention and intimidation of members of a prominent Guinean human rights group.
Guinea
Paralegals
News
Author: Jean
Published:
09
Nov
2011
Amnesty International released a report on 1 November 2011 which accuses the Ugandan state of targeting critical journalists, civil society activists and opposition political leaders with "arbitrary arrest, intimidation, threats and politically motivated criminal charges".
News
Uganda
Author: Jean
Published:
09
Nov
2011
Africa's most active volcano, Nyamuragira, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, began erupting on the night of 6 November 2011.
ACJR News
News
Democratic Republic of Congo
Author: calitz
Published:
24
Oct
2011
Article 5 Initiative responded to the open call by the UN Committee against Torture to comment on the working document of the General Comment on Article 14 of the UN Convention against Torture.
ACJR News
News
Author: calitz
Published:
24
Oct
2011
CSPRI researcher, Gwénaëlle Dereymaeker, attended the 50th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, which took place from 24 October to 7 November 2011 in Banjul, The Gambia.
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