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The articles below are the most recent additions to the Human Rights category of Africa InfoServ. To read an article, click on its title. To see more Human Rights articles or to search a particular topic, click on Africa Archive. Articles marked with a magnifying glass ( Longer, analytical article. ) are longer, more analytical pieces.

1. World Report 2012: Strengthen support for ‘Arab Spring’
Author: Human Rights Watch Date Written: 22 January 2012
Primary Category: Human Rights Document Origin: Human Rights Watch
Secondary Category: North Africa Region Source URL: http://www.hrw.org/
Key Words: North Africa, human rights watch, 2011, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Arab exception, autocrat, democracy

Summary & Comment: Human Rights Watch recently released its annual review summarizing human rights issues in over 90 countries and territories worldwide for 2011. Of special mention are the peaceful protests in the Middle East and North Africa. The article provides a link to access the 2012 World Report that further details obstructions of human rights in 19 African . . . [expand]
2. Longer, analytical article. Horn of Africa: Not the time to look away
Author: E. Weir, A. Blatter & M Gabaudan Date Written: 12 December 2011
Primary Category: Human Rights Document Origin: Refugees International
Secondary Category: Eastern Region Source URL: http://refugeesinternational.org/
Key Words: UNHCR, IDP, refugees, security, humanitarian aid

Summary & Comment: Although the world's attention has moved away from the July famine crisis in the Horn of Africa, the crisis hasn't abated. Rising insecurity in the region, inefficient aid delivery and overcrowded refugee camps still exist. The Kenyan government, the United Nations, the world must not look away. CJW
3. Southern Africa: Counter-trafficking measures trail commitments
Author: IRIN Date Written: 12 December 2011
Primary Category: Human Rights Document Origin: IRIN
Secondary Category: Southern Region Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
Key Words: governance, migration, security, human trafficking

Summary & Comment: Poverty, unemployment and a high migrant turnover are all perfect conditions for human trafficking. Southern Africa has protocols, strategic plans and frameworks to deal with this human rights scourge but at the end of it, there have been no more than a handful of prosecutions in the region against human traffickers. A roomful of SADC officials wa . . . [expand]
4. Nigerian bill criminalises more than just gay people
Author: Elizabeth Whitman Date Written: 7 December 2011
Primary Category: Human Rights Document Origin: Inter Press Service Africa
Secondary Category: Gender Source URL: http://www.ips.org/
Key Words: UN, criminalization, same-sex marriage, LGBT

Summary & Comment: "This isn't really just about queer rights. This is about rights for everybody". So says a Nigerian student demonstrating against the recent passage of the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill in the Nigerian Senate. Despite threats from donor countries to cut aid, Nigerian lawmakers remain defiant, possibly because the bill is being u . . . [expand]
5. The right to education
Author: Samir Amin Date Written: 10 November 2011
Primary Category: Human Rights Document Origin: Pambazuka News
Secondary Category: -none- Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org
Key Words: Africa, education, gender, human rights

Summary & Comment: "‘The right to education is a fundamental human right, inseparable from people’s aspirations to a full and a wholly authentic democracy,’ argues Samir Amin." HSEN
6. Malawi: No social safety nets for the poor
Author: Travis Lupick & Archibald Kasakura Date Written: 4 November 2011
Primary Category: Human Rights Document Origin: Inter Press Service Africa
Secondary Category: Southern Region Source URL: http://www.ips.org/
Key Words: governance, poverty, employment, economy

Summary & Comment: Malawi has legislation on the books to protect families from falling on hard times, such as the Employment Act and a recently amended Pension Bill. Problem is, 90 percent of Malawians work outside the formal economy. The Malawi Social Support Policy was rolled out in several regions in 2006, delivering financial assistance to the ultra-poor. Time w . . . [expand]
7. Longer, analytical article. Zambia: Workers detail abuse in Chinese-owned mines
Author: Human Rights Watch Date Written: 3 November 2011
Primary Category: Human Rights Document Origin: Human Rights Watch
Secondary Category: Resource Extraction Source URL: http://www.hrw.org/
Key Words: Zambia, China, labour laws, safety, economy

Summary & Comment: Chinese mining companies are taking their labour practices into Zambian mines, flouting that country's labour laws and regulations. Human Rights Watch has released a report outlining the persistent abuses in mines ultimately owned by the Chinese government. The title of that report says it all: "You'll Be Fired If You Refuse". C . . . [expand]

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