Israel and Hamas both must respect the prohibition under the laws of war against deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch expressed grave concern about Israeli bombings in Gaza that caused civilian deaths

 The Iranian government should end immediately its escalating persecution of Dr. Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel peace laureate and a leading human rights defender, Human Rights Watch and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today.read more

AWKA-LEADER of the Igbo National Council and secretary of Anambra State branch of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Meshack Umeike has said in Awka that no amount of amendment of the 1999 constitution would make it workable and acceptable to the people

The Sokoto State Government has concluded arrangement to train more physically challenged persons in 2009.Alhaji Ahmed Aliyu, Commissioner for Social Development told the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) in Sokoto on Sunday that government would give everybody opportunity to contribute to

Reporters Without Borders condemns the "unacceptable behaviour" of the Zimbabwean authorities in kidnapping journalist and human rights activist Jestina Mukoko on 3 December 2008, holding her incommunicado and now accusing her and several other members of the opposition Movement for

A Legal lu minary and Human Rights Activist, Chief Peter. O. Wanogho has charged the Delta State Government to immortalize second Republic Deputy Governor of the defunct Bendel State, late Chief Demas Akpore by naming the Orogun Grammar School, Orogun

The Nyanza Genocide Memorial Site which is currently under construction is to be made a monument to demonstrate the failures of the International Community to stop the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

Two police women attached to the Borno State Police Command have been dismissed for allegedly en-gaging in lesbianism, the state police commissioner, Moham-med Sambo, said in Maiduguri yesterday.

The Rwandan government has admitted to have barred Human Rights Watch's Senior Adviser on Africa, Dr Alison Des Forges, from entering Rwanda as " an individual case", but did not state categorically for what reasons.

French writer Pierre Péan who was on trial in September over racial hatred charges in a Paris court, will again stand trial in an appeal chamber upon the demand of the French rights group SOS-Racisme and public prosecution in Paris,

The government has announced that the Nyanza Genocide Memorial Site is to be turned into a monument symbolising the international community's failure to stop the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

THE number of civilians massacred by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan has catapulted to 189 in four days.

During the Christmas celebrations, LRA rebels conducted simultaneous attacks in several localities of Haut Uélé, northeastern DRC.

At least 10 people have been killed and dozens wounded Tuesday after government and Ethiopian soldiers shelled Bakaro market in Mogadishu, witnesses said.

FIVE MDC-T officials -- among them a former senior police officer -- yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Courts, facing four counts of terrorism or sabotage after they allegedly bombed police offices in the city and a railway line in

Better figures despite a hostile climate and more Internet repression

OUR Constitution guarantees the right to life. Section 33 (1) says only a court can deprive one of life. On this basis, the liberty security agencies take in killing suspects is illegal.Some of the cases make it to the court.

MOVEMENT for Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), yesterday, told the Minister of State for Niger-Delta, Elder Godsday Orubebe, who has requested for a visit to some of its field commanders in the creeks that he is jeopardizing his life by

Human trafficking by Nigerians is posing a major challenge to the country's mission in Algeria, the Ambassador, Mr Jeremiah Hassan, has said.

A two year old baby boy has been held in prison with his mother for two months and allegedly beaten by state security agents who also kidnapped his parents over an alleged plot to overthrow the Mugabe regime.