By Shahnawaz Khan Srinagar 01 April 2008 A human rights group in Indian administered Kashmir says it has located as many as 1,000 unidentified graves across a frontier district in the region. The group says it suspects that the graves may hold the bo...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 31 March 2008 Several dozen members of a hardline Islamic group held a demonstration outside the Dutch embassy in Jakarta to protest a film made by a right-wing Dutch lawmaker that accuses the Koran of inciting violenc...
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 26 March 2008 A total of 40 international humanitarian organizations have issued a statement warning of the worsening humanitarian situation in Somalia and appealing for increased attention from the international community. Th...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 21 March 2008 A Nigerian anti-corruption committee has asked President Umaru Yar'Adua to order a full probe into the administration of his predecessor Olusegun Obasanjo. The request follows revelations that energy contracts...
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 19 March 2008 An international human rights group says the upcoming elections in Zimbabwe are not likely to be fair because of human rights abuses and flaws in electoral procedures. The Human Rights Watch group made the ass...
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 17 March 2008 The international organization Human Rights Watch says in a new report that much of the political and ethnic violence that followed Kenya's disputed presidential elections was methodically organized. The organiza...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 11 March 2008 Kenyans are beginning to come to terms with the violence that followed the country's 2007 elections in which more than 1,000 people were killed and as many as 600,000 were displaced. There are growing calls for...
By Catherine Drew London 11 March 2008 Fish is now the most traded animal commodity on the planet. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, estimates 140 million tons of wild and farmed fish were sold in 2004. The FAO reports tha...
By Nancy Palus Saly, Senegal 10 March 2008 Human rights groups are calling on the Organization of the Islamic Conference, meeting in Dakar this week, to push for an end to violence in Sudan's Darfur region. Activists and religious leaders say the wor...
By Tendai Maphosa London 06 March 2008 The human rights group Amnesty International issued a report ahead of the March 8 International Women's Day on the threats and abuse faced by school-age girls. Others, including U.S. Secretary of State Condoleez...