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Human Rights Watch on Tuesday called for an independent probe into the deadly crackdown on protests that rocked Eswatini, Africa's last absolute monarchy, in June.
In May, Burundi held a presidential election which was won by Evariste Ndayishimiye, candidate of the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy - Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) party.
Ndayishimiye was hurriedly sworn in after the untimely death of president Pierre Nkurunziza in June.
Rights violations continue
The Council encouraged donor countries which had suspended aid to Burundi to continue dialogue towards resumption of development assistance.
A report by a UN watchdog in September said human rights violations were still being committed in Burundi, including sexual violence and murder.
The country was plunged into a crisis in April 2015 when Ndayishimiye’s predecessor Pierre Nkurunziza decided to run for a controversial third term, which he ultimately won in July 2015.
His candidature, which was opposed by the opposition and civil society groups, resulted in a wave of protests, violence and even a failed coup in May 2015.
Hundreds of people were killed and over 300,000 fled to neighboring countries.
REPORTS that top officials from South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) party are exasperated and have had enough of the antics “characterised by threats and blackmail” by the Johnny-come-latelies in Zanu PF are a sad development. The reality though is that the ruling party upstarts tend to hold themselves above the Johnny-come-latelies and thus cause problems for the greater majority. It is unfortunate that things have turned this way, but given the myriad of challenges Zimbabwe is facing from economic malfunction to a political crisis, we do not believe that this will end well for Zanu PF. An abusive neighbour is always a challenge to deal with. They see shadows everywhere. How does Zanu PF, a sister liberation movement, allow its upstarts to trigger diplomatic tiffs with its well-meaning neighbour? It’s on record that there are millions of Zimbabwean economic refugees in South Africa as a result of our prolonged political crisis back home. Is it not time for Zanu PF to focus on rehabilitating the country’s economy to ensure our nationals working in neighbouring countries will one day come back to develop Zimbabwe? With an estimated three million Zimbabweans across the Limpopo River, surely Zanu PF should remain civil even in the face of extreme provocation — suppose there is. It is in this light that we applaud Zanu PF spokesman Simon Khaya Moyo’s chastisement of information director Tafadzwa Mugwadi over his misplaced utterances. Is it a good sign surely to have millions of your citizens seeking succour next door? If you are a father it means you have abdicated your role, you have failed! That is why we believe ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe is right to question Zanu PF’s moral standing. Blackmailing your neighbour for whatever reason shows one’s unstable mind. Zanu PF cannot play macho when it is neck deep in economic trouble, political crisis and is having an exodus of its citizens to regional countries. Besides, democratic space is forever shrinking with those holding a different opinion being arrested daily. Should citizens blindly support government opinion? The country’s governance charter allows everyone to hold a different view, yet the Zanu PF government criminalises opposing views. The fact that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa last year dispatched three envoys to meet Zanu PF in an effort to resolve the country’s political and economic logjam amid fears that problems in Harare could destabilise the southern African region shows he meant well. That good gesture should never be politicised at the expense of the country’s citizens. Citizens, demand better leadership from Zanu PF and not for the party to act as some rag-tag militia out there. Ruling parties the world over are expected to show leadership — the citizens demand just that, period!
A new Trump executive order threatening the court’s operations has been condemned by prominent global institutions and individuals as it appears to give cover to human rights abuses committed in the course of U.S. foreign wars while demanding accountability from foreign countries in similar circumstances.
Param-Preet Singh of the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch, praised the decision of the ICC to greenlight an investigation of brutal crimes in Afghanistan, reaffirming the court’s essential role for victims when all other doors to justice are closed.
After years of collecting information on the Afghanistan war, the court’s chief prosecutor, Ms. Fatou Bensouda of The Gambia, said that enough information had been found to prove that U.S. forces “committed acts of torture, cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity, rape and sexual violence” in Afghanistan in 2003 and 2004, and later in clandestine C.I.A. facilities in Poland, Romania and Lithuania.
She requested permission to open an investigation into claims of war crimes and crimes against humanity attributed to the U.S. military and intelligence personnel, the Taliban and Afghan forces.
Shaharzad Akbar, the head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, said the court had made the right decision to proceed over U.S. objections.
It's not only the festive season for millions of celebrants in India, but also a promising season for hundreds of thousands of people who are being hired by e-commerce giants during this prime shopping period. [...]
… American history. Discrimination against Black Americans applying for mortgage loans is … neighborhood with “even a tiny African American population” received a D … restrictive housing covenants that prohibited Black Americans from buying certain properties, …
[New Zimbabwe] MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has said he will jealously guard and will not allow his victory in the 2023 presidential election to be stolen again as what happened in 2018.
Press Release - Criminal Charges Brought Against Group Alleging Corruption
[VOA] Geneva -- The U.N. refugee agency is calling for more effective measures to protect millions of civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo subjected to killings, kidnappings and savage abuse by armed groups.
Human Rights Watch says it has called on the Government of National Unity (GNA) in Libya to investigate the disappearance of hundreds of residents of the city of Tarhouna, where several mass graves were discovered in June.
[HRW] Beirut -- Human Rights Watch Introduces Country Index Based on Laws, Policies
Hundreds of D.C. firefighters and paramedics still have not been disciplined for failing to meet the city's coronavirus vaccination requirement, according to a recent report.
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