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While April is sexual assault awareness month, sexual violence has plagued the black community for numerous years. Sexual violence has been used in war, slavery, within families, etc. While sexual violence occurs across all racial and ethnic groups, black bodies have encountered a staggering amount of this. The Institute for Women’s Policy Research reports that … Continued
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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.
This past weekend in the corners of Twitter where nothing is off-limits to discussion, dissection or critique, two celebrities were... View Article
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Edward William Brooke III was an American Republican politician. In 1966, he became the first African American popularly elected to the United States Senate. He represented Massachusetts in the Senate from 1967 to 1979. Brooke was born on October 26, 1919 and raised in Washington, D.C.. He graduated from the Boston University School of Law […]
[IPS] United Nations -- At the height of the Cold War back in the 1960s, a Peruvian diplomat, Dr. Victor Andres Belaunde, characterized the United Nations as a politically wobbly institution that survives only at the will- and pleasure- of the five big powers.
I have spent my professional career researching and writing about the spirituals, gospel songs and freedom songs of the African American experience. They...
The People’s Republic of China is rapidly regressing on human rights, returning to the sort of political totalitarianism of the mad \"Red - Doug Bandow for Antiwar.com Original
… make history as the first African-American to lead the country’s … Pentagon, and is the only African-American to have headed U.S … in the Army, especially among African-American officers and enlisted soldiers, as …
[Monitor] The Democratic Party (DP) presidential candidate, Mr Norbert Mao, said his government will set up a tribunal to deal with, among others, compensation of the victims of the Joseph Kony insurgencies and Karimojong cattle raids in Teso Sub-region.
Omari Bryant's body was hanging in front of a motel early Saturday morning in the town of Homerville and people close to the 18-year-old are doubting the cause of death is suicide.
By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer When children and teens are overwhelmed with anxiety, depression or thoughts of self-harm, they often wait days in emergency rooms because there aren't enough psychiatric beds. The problem has only grown worse during the pandemic, reports from parents and professionals suggest. With schools closed, routines disrupted and parents anxious over lost income or uncertain futures, children are shouldering new burdens many are unequipped to bear. And with surging numbers of hospitalized COVID-19 patients, bed space is even scarcer. By early fall, many Massachusetts ERs were seeing about four times more children and teens in […]
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[Africa Renewal] First of its kind #AfricaYouthLead policy paper is a result of continent-wide consultations, focus groups and surveys in English, Swahili, French, and Arabic.
[The Conversation Africa] From a historical standpoint, the current conflict in Ethiopia fits within an established political pattern. There have been power struggles between the centre and the border regions since the modern Ethiopian state was established in the late 19th century.
Ethiopia’s month-long war in its northern Tigray region has severely hampered efforts to fight one of Africa’s worst coronavirus outbreaks,... View Article
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Almost 2 000 people have been arrested in Limpopo for various crimes - and two people have been caught in alleged possession of crocodile eggs and skins.
The City of Cape Cape Town will be closely eyeing liquor outlets this festive season, as alcohol-related trauma incidents could place an unnecessary burden on the city's hospitals amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- A strike by Kenyan doctors loomed large Sunday as the notice issued by their union lapsed.
Triple amputee Miriam Lindsay still has fond recollections of watching her favourite soap operas within the comfort of her home. That’s now a distant memory after her two-bedroom house in Hermitage, St Andrew, was razed by fire in April, forcing...
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GHK Lall (SN of Dec 7, 2020) evidently has sufficient experience of human nature to be able to pronounce so categorically negatively on the quality of Guyanese.
The article Vast majority of my students are still of good quality appeared first on Stabroek News.
Former President Barack Obama announced Thursday alongside former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton that he would take the COVID-19 vaccine on television in […]
On Sunday 14 November, Professor Basil Wilson (retired provost of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City) moderated this special session with Sir Hilary Beckles, 8th Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) is a distinguished academic, international thought leader, United Nations committee official, and global public activist in the field of social justice and minority empowerment.
President-elect Joe Biden announced that retired four-star General Lloyd J. Austin III will be nominated to serve as the new U.S. Secretary of Defense. With a distinguished record of military service spanning four decades, Secretary-designate Austin is a deeply experienced and highly decorated commander who has served with distinction in several of the Pentagon's most crucial positions.
I have read with great consternation and utter dismay that the Government is giving serious consideration to the abolition of August 1st as Emancipation Day and August 6th as our Independence Day.
A Jamaican who expressed concern last week that his deportation from the United Kingdom could be a “death sentence” as he had no known relatives here has tested positive for COVID-19 after landing last Wednesday. Now undergoing treatment as he...
Fourteen U.S. Army leaders, including commanders and other leaders at Fort Hood have been fired or suspended in an effort to correct a years-long culture of sexual assault and a pattern of violence at the base, Army officials said Tuesday.
“It was a good day,” Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt told Black Press USA, during a livestream interview that took place at the same time as the court hearing. The Black Press streamed the court proceedings as Wyatt participated in the exclusive interview. “I thought Attorney Bonjean did a phenomenal job. This is what Mr. Cosby had been hoping for,” noted Wyatt, who shared a text message from Cosby’s wife, Camille Cosby, during the broadcast.
Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and the Mayor’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice today launched a new citywide initiative – “Together We Heal” – a campaign aimed at building racial healing across Chicago. The goals of the initiative are to empower all Chicagoans to engage in activities fostering connection, restoration and learning at this time … Continued
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A man has been arrested at a tavern in Mpumalanga more than a year after allegedly killing his girlfriend and raping her young daughter.
WHEN I speak to Benjamin, he tells me it’s snowing where he is, and he’s...
The post Benjamin Zephaniah: My cousin died the same way as George Floyd, with an officers foot on his neck, crying for his mother appeared first on Voice Online.
