Africa
  • Nov 13, 2008

    The UN Security Council should urgently increase the number of peacekeepers to help protect civilians in northern Democratic Republic of Congo following renewed attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).

  • The Experience of Lesotho’s Universal HIV Counseling and Testing Campaign
  • The 2007 Horn of Africa Renditions and the Fate of Those Still Missing
  • Ending the Juvenile Death Penalty in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen
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  • Nov 18, 2008

    Lesotho’s drive to test all of its citizens age 12 or older for the virus that causes AIDS fell short of its goals, both in carrying out the program and in safeguarding the rights of those tested, said Human Rights Watch and the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa in a new report released today.

  • The Experience of Lesotho’s Universal HIV Counseling and Testing Campaign
    Nov 17, 2008
  • Nov 16, 2008

    As violence once again strikes the Congo, Anneke Van Woudenberg says the past has shaped - some would say distorted - the present of the blighted central African country.

  • Nov 13, 2008

    The UN Security Council should urgently increase the number of peacekeepers to help protect civilians in northern Democratic Republic of Congo following renewed attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).

  • Nov 13, 2008

    The Kenyan government, foreign donors, and United Nations agencies should rapidly increase their response to the worsening Somali refugee crisis in Kenya.

  • Nov 12, 2008

    International Criminal Court (ICC) member countries should speak up to support the court's independence and mandate during their annual meeting beginning November 14, 2008.

  • Nov 12, 2008

    Since June 2007, Egyptian border guards have killed at least 32 African migrants trying to cross into Israel, and Israel has forcibly returned at least 139 border crossers to Egypt.

  • Nov 11, 2008

    The United Nations Security Council should urgently increase the number of peacekeepers in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to protect civilians in the face of new fighting and mounting civilian deaths.

  • Nov 10, 2008

    Leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) meeting at an emergency summit in South Africa today will be hoping that their intervention will finally break the political deadlock between Zimbabwe's two main parties, Zanu-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

  • Nov 7, 2008

    Despite a power-sharing agreement, Zimbabwe's de facto ruling party continues to use the police and justice system as a weapon against opposition supporters and civil society.

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