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Stakeholders Rally For Peace

Picture: Cross- Section of the stakeholders

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

The celebrations marking the International Day of Peace continue to gain momentum in the country with a series of activities by civil society...

Case of jailed Egyptian doctors in Saudi exposes injustice, says activist

http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=18187

Monday, December 01, 2008

CAIRO: Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit’s statement that arguably downplayed the imprisonment and lashing of two Egyptian doctors in Saudi Arabia...

‘16 Days’ founder to speak in EL

http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=273276

Sunday, November 23, 2008

By SIBONGILE MKANI MASIMANYANE Womens Support Centre in East London will host one of the worlds leading activists on violence against women this...

WOZA activists detention extended in Zimbabwe

Saturday, October 25, 2008

The detention of two activists from the Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) has been extended until Friday. A bail hearing in the case was held on Tuesday...

SOMALIA: Raising awareness against FGM in Puntland

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Halima [not her real name], a mother of five girls, shudders whenever she remembers how she suffered after undergoing female genital mutilation...

Kadiata Malick Diallo, Mauritania, “Our ultimate goal is equality”

IRIN

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Kadiata Malick Diallo is vice-president of the Union of Forces for Progress (UFP) and a deputy in Mauritania’s National Assembly. She spoke to IRIN...

Activists released from prison in Ethiopia

Amnesty International

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Two human rights activists have been released from prison in Ethiopia having been detained since November 2005. Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie...

TOGO: Haphazard supply of AIDS drugs endangers lives

IRIN

Friday, December 07, 2007

A critical shortage of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs in Togo has temporarily eased with the arrival of a two-month supply of the life-prolonging...

NIGERIA: Wave of repression on so-called ‘amoral’ behaviour

IRIN

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Human rights advocates in Nigeria are voicing alarm about recent arrests of cross-dressing men and of women allegedly wearing ‘indecent’ clothes,...

ZIMBABWE: Chiefs fight violence in the home

IRIN

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Traditional leaders in Zimbabwe's Masvingo Province, in the southeast of the country, are partnering with gender activists in a bid to curb domestic...

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