A Minnesota family has filed a lawsuit seeking to force a drug company to let their son have access to an experimental drug for a terminal form of muscular dystrophy.
FOR the last two decades of unforgettable conflict in northern, eastern and West Nile sub-region, the people have suffered terribly at the hands of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). This suffering has not only been physical but also socio-economic.
Barrister Hauwa Ibrahim, a female human rights lawyer, has been awarded a fellowship by the Harvard University, USA for her crusade against injustice to women.
Chairperson for Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), Africa Region, Minimwa Mahlagu, yesterday said that South Africa was ashamed of the recent attacks on African immigrants.
Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD) became involved in Uganda in 1979. This was immediately after the "Liberation war" which saw the departure of Idi Amin's regime.
As a gender activist and secondly, as a Parliamentarian, I will provide an understanding of the Sierra Leone Parliament by highlighting its work thus far in relation to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). I will give a situational analysis of
Let me first and foremost start by emphasizing that the theme: Ending Impunity on Sexual and Gender Based Violence is a befitting one. This conference could not have come at a more opportune moment. The high prevalence of SGBV in
FAWE is a Pan- African organization with operations in thirty-five countries in Africa. FAWE Sierra Leone was started in 1995, at the height of the civil war.
It is now fashionable in academic and activist circles to speak of transitional justice in normative, inflexible terms that suggest a utopian certainty. Nothing could be further from the truth. At the outset, we need to understand that transitional justice
The victory attained in the South African courts over that country's policy of excluding HIV-positive people from recruitment, external deployment and promotion may prompt the Legal Assistance Centre of Namibia to mount a similar challenge here, unless the Government starts
WHAT goes around comes around. Sudan is now asking help from Uganda, as a neighbour and chairman of the Organisation of The Islamic Conference, to defer the charges against President Omar el Bashir by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Mr. Wallace, Mr. Altit, what is the relevance of this site for the case?" This question was asked more than a dozen times by Judge Erik Mose during the visit of the Chamber Tuesday to Nyanza, southern Rwanda, to the
Director, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, yesterday called for strict punishment by the government for the violation of the rights of women and children.
The indictment of Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on genocide charges should send a strong message to other world leaders that the abuse of human rights on such an outrageous scale can no longer
THOUSANDS of displaced xenophobic violence victims accommodated at safety shelters - who do not want to be repatriated or reintegrated to communities - could be left without shelter and food when the Gauteng provincial government closes its centres next month.
In considering the wars in the Central African Republic (CAR), Darfur, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where the use of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) is widespread, this paper seeks to accomplish two tasks. The first task is
Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns this week's deportation of Fuhara Mugisha, the deputy managing editor of Rwanda's leading independent weekly, Umuseso. Despite having a Rwandan mother, Mugisha is a citizen of neighbouring Tanzania.
The Sudanese government yesterday warned that the indictment of President Omar al-Bashir on genocide and war crimes charges would have "a direct negative impact" on the peace talks between Uganda and the LRA rebels.
