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Crowds of Tunisians took to the streets once again to voice their discontent with President Kais Saied, ahead of the country's presidential election on October 6. With most of his opponents in jail or barred from running, Saied has been accused of stamping out political competition.
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
THE Zanu PF-led government has continued to violate human rights. Its crackdown on human rights and opposition activists, including the continued eviction of people from urban and rural settlements using State resources and agents such as the Zimbabwe Republic Police is testimony to this. Budiriro residents whose houses were demolished are the latest victims. Zimbabwe should not be considered independent for the following reasons: lAlthough the country is supposed to be governed by the Constitution, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime’s intolerant and authoritarian rule does not adhere to the tenets of the supreme law. An autocratic regime does not guarantee prosperity, poverty reduction and observance of human rights. lThe media, civic groups, human rights activists and ordinary people are not allowed to criticise the government and if they do they are labelled “sellouts” and brutalised as a consequence. lThere are no free and fair elections, freedoms of speech and expression are limited and violence by State security agents is sanctioned by the government on dissenting voices. lElections are won by the ruling Zanu PF party by the use of unfair means as witnessed in 2018. lCivic organisation meetings and demonstrations are declared illegal on the pretext of observing the COVID-19-induced lockdown regulations. lPolitically-motivated violence such as murders and disappearances, intimidation, harassment of opposition supporters and intolerance of dissent are endemic during the run-up to elections. In light of this, it is clear that Zimbabwe does not have a universally acceptable democratic framework and Zimbabweans have had no experience of democracy during and after white minority rule. Viola
… . However, over the next century black Americans continued to suffer grave persecution … the treatment and status of black Americans was the most obviously pressing … anything civil about a little African American girl walking into school receiving …
PRIME Minister Andrew Holness says legislation to implement a ticketing system for breaches of the novel coronavirus protocols will be brought to the Houses of Parliament shortly.
The #SharingPositivity movement calls on South Africans to stand up against cyberbullying and online harassment.
Analysis - We lost colleagues. Others were intubated. It was really scary…. [I am] praying to have a vaccine soon. —“Fernanda”, nurse at a public hospital in Ceará state, Brazil, July 28, 2020
Blog - As 2020 draws to a close, the terrible toll of the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region is coming into sharper focus. The human costs continue to mount; the United Nations estimates that 1.3 million people need emergency assistance as a result of the conflict, and over 50,000 people have fled to neighboring Sudan. Eritrean refugees that had fled to Ethiopia have reportedly been attacked, in some cases forcibly repatriated. UN agencies remain unable to access some areas with humanitarian relief. And despite
BY GARIKAI TUNHIRA Residents and civic society organisations (CSOs) criticised government at a COVID-19 response and preparedness consultative meeting held in Gweru on Friday, saying that it had failed to consider the plight of people living with disabilities in its interventions. The meeting, organised by the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) in conjunction with the National Association of Non-Governmental Organisations, sought to elicit views on government efforts to fight COVID-19. MAPRORIWEB’s Belinda Msesengwe said government failed to provide Braille material for the visually-impaired. “We had hoped that we would get Braille material so that we could read and get to understand what coronavirus entailed. Unfortunately, no one bothered to consider our situation. Government should have led in that area,” Msesengwe said. Rabecca Butau, from the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, bemoaned the neglect by government in cushioning the vulnerable and those rendered jobless because of COVID-19. “Government was supposed to cushion mostly the vulnerable and workers whose employment was on the line. It was supposed to give employers money so they could pay their employees. Now what is happening is that because of the lockdown and reduced working hours, employees had their leave days taken away and it means they will most likely go into 2021 with their leave days in the minus,” Butau said. McAuthur Mkwapatira, from Youth Essence, said government had bungled by “prematurely” reopening schools, suggesting it should have, instead, only allowed final examination classes to return to class. Meanwhile, ZADHR secretary Norman Matara trained teachers at Mudavanhu ZimCare Trust in Mkoba 11 and caregivers and residents at Batanai Old People’s Home on COVID-19 and the correct use of personal protective equipment (PPE). The rights doctors also donated PPE and medical sundries to the two institutions. Follow Garikai on Twitter @garietunhira
Former President Barack Obama contends that broad rallying cries like “defund the police” contributed to losses in the 2020 elections... View Article
The post Obama: Candidates lose support with 'snappy' slogans like 'defund the police' appeared first on TheGrio.
In the crowded alleys of Bambari's Kidjigira market, customers of all faiths brush together as steam rises from hanging cooking pots and flies swarm around them.
Tracy Morgan surprised residents when he appeared at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new community center in Brooklyn. The event made the legendary comedian feel nostalgic about his own humble beginnings when he resided in the area as a child.
Up in arms over the Egyptian President's state visit to France, around 20 protesters gathered outside the Paris National Assembly late on Monday, shouting \"down with dictatorship\".
The demonstration outside the parliament painted a very different picture to earlier in the day when France welcomed President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi with a cavalry parade through Paris.
Before the three-day visit, rights groups accused France of indulging President al-Sisi's \"brutal repression of any form of dissent\".
\"We've come across a President of the Republic who welcomes the butcher of Cairo, the butcher of Egypt, in great pomp, on a state visit, with the Republican Guard,\" said François de Roche, chief of the NGO Justice and Rights Without Borders.
\"We have fallen on our heads. This is unacceptable. France, the country of Human Rights, cannot accept this.\"
But French President Emmanuel Macron refrained from direct criticism of former army general Sisi, who has cracked down on supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, as well as on leftists and liberals.
Macron told a joint press conference with Sisi that he would not condition the sale of weapons to Egypt and trade ties on human rights as he did not want to weaken Cairo’s ability to counter-terrorism in the region.
\"I think it is more effective to have a policy of dialogue than a policy of boycott which would reduce the effectiveness of one of our partners in the fight against terrorism and for regional stability,\" he said.
To force the issue of human rights would be both \"ineffective on the subject of human rights and counter-productive in the fight against terrorism, that's why I won't do it,\" he added
After witnessing what could have been an overturning of democracy here, Canada has pledged further support to electoral reforms and is awaiting the government’s response, outgoing High Commissioner Lilian Chatterjee yesterday announced as she spoke about the events in the aftermath of the March 2nd polling, including a meeting where former president David Granger was told that Western countries would not accept the now discredited initial declaration that was intended to keep him in power.
The article Canada has offered further electoral aid, awaiting reply appeared first on Stabroek News.
The United States administration bemoans the “insufficient response” by the Jamaican Government to end violence and hold the perpetrators responsible. They are deeply concerned about the high rates of killings on the island, especially the murder of women. The Andrew Holness administration is being urged to also curtail abuses by the security forces and government agents involved in extrajudicial killings, […]
[Cameroon Tribune] Government has lauded the peaceful conduct of the election of Regional Councillors that took place on December 6, 2020.
[263Chat] Opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has condemned the 'heartless and cruel' demolition of houses in Harare urging those responsible to halt the operation.
Analysis - Mass graves keep cropping up in Zimbabwe. The killings of civilians date back years, but wounds remain. The hurdle to healing is the government, experts say.
Residents of Ivory Coast's capital city Abidjan fear what will come next.
The city is calm this morning, but incertainty is till on everyone's mind.
Following yesterday's acts of violents in some of the country's major cities, many dread a return of the 2010 post electoral violence, that killed over 3 000 people.
\" We no longer want war, we want peace, so that what happened in 2010 never happens again. We ask those who are against it to come to their senses so democracy can move forward. We cannot developp a country in war and hate \", 67-year-old Moussa Doumbia, a local Resident of Abobo, in the capital city.
Life may just be like everyday on this market, however after months of violence, many wonder what will come next
\"We are afraid of what's to come, we are afraid of what will come next, Honestly we don't know how things are going to go, so we are afraid \" confesses Aicha Toure, a Vegetable seller.
Now according to this local resident, fear and weariness are on everyone's mind.
\" We're scared, the Ivorians are tired (of the situation), we're not going to spend our time with politicians, that's not where we're going to stay. Young people have to work, we Ivorians are united \" assures Local Resident Julien Yobouet.
Uncertainty has surronded the coming days. Ivoirians now wonder whether the release of even partial election results in the next five days could set off more unrest in the country, just like it did, a decade ago.
So far violence surronding the presidential elections in the country have left at least 30 dead since August, a number that is expected to change, in the coming hours.
[HRW] Women track and field athletes, largely from the Global South, are abused and harmed by \"sex testing\" regulations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The regulations target women in running events between 400 meters and one mile, and compel women they target to undergo medical interventions or be forced out of competition.
[OHCHR] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Friday called on all actors to take urgent measures to protect civilians in Cabo Delgado province, in northeast Mozambique, amid reports of an increasingly alarming human rights situation.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand- Up to 250,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults, were physically and sexually abused in New Zealand's faith-based and state-care institutions over four decades, Reuters news agency has reported.The revelation, Reuters said, was made by a public inquiry covering from the 1960s to early 2000s.
URBAN SYNERGY has announced that prominentbusiness leaderswill be forming a Corporate Advisory Board to support...
The post Business leaders team up with Urban Synergy to create a more ethnically diverse city appeared first on Voice Online.
Oct. 5 voter registration deadline quickly approaches — Georgia League of Women Voters president, Lucy Hale, calls students to action this election season. In the 2016 election, young people 18 to 29 years old contributed only 19% of votes. As we near the next election in the midst of ongoing pandemic, turnout is a bigger...
