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  • Recent Blogger Arrests a Troubling Trend in the Middle East/North Africa Region 19 Dec 2009 00:11 GMT
    ... Arrests a Troubling Trend in the Middle East/North Africa Region Freedom House condemns the recent arrests ... the increasing incidents of blogger harassment in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia where governments act with ...

  • Sahwari human rights activist returns home after hunger strike 18 Dec 2009 19:43 GMT
    ... Director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Programme. “There must, however, be no conditions ... self-proclaimed government-in-exile in refugee camps in south-western Algeria. ...

  • Sahrawi human rights activist returns home after hunger strike 21 Dec 2009 11:37 GMT
    ... Director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Programme. “There must, however, be no conditions ... self-proclaimed government-in-exile in refugee camps in south-western Algeria. ...

  • Human Rights Watch releases breakthrough report on Libya 18 Dec 2009 22:11 GMT
    ... Human Rights Watch releases breakthrough report on Libya Libya's human rights landscape includes "pockets of ... the head of HRW's Middle East and North Africa division, Sarah Leah Whitson, said at the ...

  • Human rights come calling 20 Dec 2009 19:06 GMT
    ... provoke a dialogue on human rights within Egypt. The gross violations of human rights during ... the Festival and the Director of the North Africa office of the American Islamic Congress, shifted ...

  • Girl Child, Eliminating Racism, Protecting Human Rights while Countering Terrorism Among Issues, as Third Committee Approves Five More Texts, Concludes Session 24 Dec 2009 20:26 GMT
    ... Girl Child, Eliminating Racism, Protecting Human Rights while Countering Terrorism Among Issues, as Third ... proclaimed the International Year for People of African Descent for 2011 -- they brought the ... human rights were universal. The representative of Egypt, speaking on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, which ...

  • 2009 Mixed Year for Human Rights 22 Dec 2009 19:12 GMT
    ... challenges – and significant progress – for human rights around the world. Human rights abuses continue ... living economically marginal lives. For instance, many North Africans once migrated legally to Spain to do menial ...

  • Human Rights Campaigner Detained in Guinea 25 Dec 2009 16:31 GMT
    ... Human rights activist Mouctar Diallo enters his second month ... with an interview he gave to VOA's French-to-Africa service the day after September's killing. In ... is recovering in a military hospital in Morocco after being shot by the former head ...

  • Western Saharan activist hurt Morocco's image 23 Dec 2009 03:02 GMT
    ... Aminatou Haidar at a Spanish airport hurt Morocco by raising awareness of human rights abuses ... 2004, said Manuel de la Rocha, an Africa expert at the Observatory of Spanish Foreign Policy thinktank. "Given ... Francisco Franco, sparking a war with the Algeria-backed Polisario Front movement. The two sides agreed ...

  • Tunisia: President, Emboldened by Vote, Cracks Down on Critics 23 Dec 2009 18:40 GMT
    ... promise. Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch (New York) ... Zehouane, human rights lawyers from Morocco and Algeria respectively, who had arrived on November 18 ...

  • INTERVIEW - W.Sahara activist says is under Moroccan house arrest 24 Dec 2009 13:12 GMT
    ... INTERVIEW - W.Sahara activist says is under Moroccan house arrest RABAT/TINDOUF (Reuters) - Western Sahara ... oil, Western Sahara is the scene of Africa's longest-running territorial dispute. Last week, Haidar, a 43-year-old ... of having a "carrot-and-the stick" policy towards Algeria-based Polisario Front and the Sahrawis in the ...

  • Morocco yields on Western Sahara activist 18 Dec 2009 12:12 GMT
    ... | Last updated: December 18 2009 11:46 Morocco early on Friday yielded to pleas from ... 1975, and the territory is sometimes called Africa’s last remaining colony. The Polisario Front, based in neighbouring ... colony. The Polisario Front, based in neighbouring Algeria, waged a guerrilla war for independence until ...

  • West Sahara activist says she is under Moroccan house arrest 24 Dec 2009 18:33 GMT
    ... Western Sahara independence activist Aminatou Haidar said Moroccan police had surrounded her house and kept ... oil, Western Sahara is the scene of Africa’s longest-running territorial dispute. Last week, Ms Haidar, a ... of having a “carrot-and-the stick” policy towards Algeria-based Polisario Front and the Sahrawis in the ...

  • African hunger striker allowed home 18 Dec 2009 17:19 GMT
    ... , Friday 18 December 2009 16.27 GMT Aminatou Haidar at home ... Laayoune, capital of the contested territory, by Morocco last month when she returned from a ... in limbo in Polisario-administered camps in south-western Algeria. Within Western Sahara, talk of independence is ...

  • Rights, the law and religion: Islamic courts in East Africa 23 Dec 2009 14:42 GMT
    ... implementing the system e.g. Zanzibar, Kenya and Egypt among others. The majority of Muslims supporting ... Shafi School, which is prevalent in East Africa, should a man be survived by daughters ... legislative changes in Muslim majority countries like Morocco, Turkey and Iran. In upholding the divine ...


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