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Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdepen...
Female Role Model 2: Betty Makoni – Zimbabwe Betty Makoni is the founder ofGirl Child Network Worldwideand a CNN Hero. As a survivor of child abuse and rape, Betty founded GCNW to educate and empower Zimbabwean girls. Her work has forced her to flee Zimbabwe for the United Kingdom wher...
Her documentary film career has taken her to Alaska, Japan, Russia, Nepal, and Zimbabwe, with peace and the environment as her main areas of interest. For more about Judy Irving go to: pelicanmedia.org SOCIAL MEDIA facebook.com/firstrunfeature facebook.com/pelicanmedia twitter.com/firstrun...
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, a local rights group, reported that 28 people arrested by police appeared in court in Harare on August 6, facing charges of public violence. hrw.org 人权观察(Human Rights Watch)指出,邻国印度尼西亚已承认在本月初将一艘满载难民的船推回海上,并要他们前往马来西亚...
For those Zimbabweans, human rights accountability will necessarily be refracted—through the prism of domestic, regional, and international political considerations. Even if it turns out that this month’s path-breaking ruling in South Africa is remembered mostly for its symbolic effects, the ...
Sub-Saharan African countries, namely, Angola, Benin, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Burundi, Niger, Togo, Zambia, and Zimbabwe; and Yemen in the Middle East belong to this category. Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest irrigated to rain-fed area ratio of less than 3% (FAO, 2006, Figure 5.2, p...
The organisations criticised statements issued by some member states as mere praise worship rather than real scrutiny of Zimbabwe's human rights record. Speaking after Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's report, United Nations Watch (UN Watch) executive director Hillel Neuer lambasted the UN member sta...
A decade ago, Indian laws dealing with crimes against women were overhauled in the wake of the gang-rape of a23-year-old woman on a moving bus.But women’s rights advocates say that entrenched patriarchal attitudes haven’t budged significantly, and are at the root of frequent violence agains...
from Australia to Zimbabwe and Canada to the Ukraine celebrate the rights of children by demanding action by private citizens and governments on International Children’s Day. Twenty years ago the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, yet millions of chi...