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Archives for June 2015

VIDEO: World Policeman? Perhaps when US cops stop brutalising blacks and getting away with it

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By: Sunny Ntayomba, 10 June 2015, New Times (Rwanda) Before last weekend I had never heard of the town of McKinney, Texas. Now, until the moment I breathe my last, the word ‘McKinney’ will always bring a rush of blood to my head and tears to my eyes. A video that was posted to Youtube by a white teenager shows an enraged white police officer screaming at a group of black … [Read more...] about VIDEO: World Policeman? Perhaps when US cops stop brutalising blacks and getting away with it

African leaders to unveil new common market bloc

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WEDNESDAY, 10 JUNE 2015, Daily Nation (Kenya) SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT-The leaders of 26 African countries gathered in Egypt Wednesday to sign a new trade pact to create a common market across half the continent that will serve 625 million people. The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) will cap five years of negotiations to set up a common framework for preferential … [Read more...] about African leaders to unveil new common market bloc

Why Sudan’s Bashir is now calling for increased dialogue with the West

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 By Khalid Abdelaziz, 2 JUNE 2015, Christian Science Monitor Sudan's incumbent president, Omar al-Bashir, is under charges by the International Criminal Court for genocide. In his reelection speech, he calls for reconciliation. KHARTOUM — Sudan is open to dialog with Western nations, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Tuesday, in an unusually conciliatory message from … [Read more...] about Why Sudan’s Bashir is now calling for increased dialogue with the West

THE WHITE MAN’S TASK IN TROPICAL AFRICA

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By Sir Frederick D. Lugard IN the march of material progress in the nineteenth century probably the most outstanding event was the discovery of the use of steam as a motive power, and it is of interest to note how and why it led inevitably to the development of the tropics and their control by the white races. On the one hand the oceans ceased to be barriers passable only at … [Read more...] about THE WHITE MAN’S TASK IN TROPICAL AFRICA

Eritrea calls U.N. human rights findings ‘indecent hyperbole’

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NAIROBI, Tue 9 Jun 2015, Reuters Eritrea on Tuesday dismissed what it called "indecent hyperbole" in a U.N. human rights report that described alleged extrajudicial killings, torture and sexual slavery in the secretive Horn of Africa state. Suggestions the Asmara government had committed gross human rights violations against its own people was "totally unfounded and without … [Read more...] about Eritrea calls U.N. human rights findings ‘indecent hyperbole’

THE 2015 SCOREBOARD: HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE HORN!

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The world has not seen this much tumult for a generation. The once-heralded Arab Spring has given way almost everywhere to conflict and repression. Islamist extremists commit mass atrocities and threaten civilians throughout the Middle East and parts of Asia and Africa. Cold War-type tensions have revived over Ukraine, with even a civilian jetliner shot out of the sky. … [Read more...] about THE 2015 SCOREBOARD: HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE HORN!

WHAT ARE HUMAN RIGHTS?

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Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible. Universal human rights are often expressed and guaranteed … [Read more...] about WHAT ARE HUMAN RIGHTS?

ERITREA

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Eritrea’s dismal human rights situation, exacerbated by indefinite military conscription, is causing thousands of Eritreans to flee their country every month. In early 2014, President Isaias Afewerki confirmed his lack of interest in an open society, stating: “[I]f there is anyone who thinks there will be democracy or [a] multiparty system in this country ... then that person … [Read more...] about ERITREA

ETHIOPIA

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Hopes that Ethiopia’s government would ease its crackdown on dissent ahead of the May 2015 elections were dashed in 2014. Instead the government continued to use arbitrary arrests and prosecutions to silence journalists, bloggers, protesters, and supporters of opposition political parties; police responded to peaceful protests with excessive force; and there was no … [Read more...] about ETHIOPIA