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AllAfrica News: Human Rights

• South Africa: South Africa Can Stop the Spiral of Abuses
  [HRW] South Africans love it when Cameroon's Indomitable Lions fly the flag for African football at the Fifa World Cup, but they don't pay much attention to its politics, or to its volatile neighbourhood.
  
  
• Central Africa: A Call for Justice in Africa's Great Lakes Region
  [HRW] Last week, the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region met in Nairobi, Kenya, to discuss "combating impunity and upholding human rights as key contributors to peace and security." Representatives from the organization's 12 member states, the United Nations, and the African Union, as well as civil society representatives, including Human Rights Watch, participated in the three-day meeting. The group took the opportunity to strengthen its commitment to securing justice for victims of atrocities ac
  
  
• Cameroon: Promised Investigation Should Be Independent
  [HRW] Brussels -Cameroonian soldiers went on a rampage in the English-speaking North-West region on May 15, 2019, burning over 70 homes in Mankon, Bamenda. Soldiers dragged one man from his house, shooting him dead in the street.
  
  
• Namibia: Ancestral Land Commission Pledges Impartiality
  [Namibian] HIGH Court judge Shafimana Ueitele, who is the chairperson of the presidential commission of inquiry into ancestral land claims and restitution, has pledged that its members will be impartial.
  
  
• Egypt: Govt Pardons 560 Prisoners
  [EOHR] The Egyptian Organization welcomes the decision of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to the presidential pardon of 560 of the prisoners, including Abdel Halim Qandil.
  
  
• Tanzania: Hope At Last for Tanzania Rights, Governance Commission
  [Citizen] Dar es Salaam -After almost two years without a chairperson and commissioners, the Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance (CHRAGG) has invited public comments on candidates it has invited for an interview for the positions.
  
  
• Burkina Faso: Respect Rights During Counterinsurgency Operation
  [HRW] Burkina Faso's security forces should scrupulously respect human rights during a new military operation launched in response to a deadly uptick in attacks by armed Islamist groups, Human Rights Watch said today.
  
  
• South Africa: Stellenbosch University VC Says He Was 'Appalled' By Controversial Coloured Women Study
  [News24Wire] Stellenbosch University Rector and Vice Chancellor Wim de Villiers says he was "appalled" and in "disbelief" following the publication of a research article which assessed the cognitive functioning of a sample of 60 coloured women from the same region.
  
  
• Sierra Leone: Allegeg Human Rights Abuses And Exploitation of Workerschrdi Turns the Spotlight On Commercial Banks
  [Concord] The Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI) has slammed local and foreign banks operating in the country for alleged human rights abuses and exploitation meted on their staff.
  
  
• Africa: Wreck of Last U.S. Slave Ship From Africa Found
  [Deutsche Welle] Researchers say the wreckage of the Clotilda, the last known ship to have brought people enslaved in Africa to US shores, has been located. The voyage took place decades after transporting slaves to the US was outlawed.
  
  
• Nigeria: Domesticating, Enforcing Global Plan to Protect Nigerian Children From Abuse
  [Guardian] Reika Musa is 13-years old. Rekia is six months pregnant. Rekia, married, is out-of-school and has to hawk items on the streets to survive.
  
  
• Kenya: Glowing Tributes Flow in for Binyavanga Wainaina
  [Nairobi News] Prominent Kenyans, including fellow writers, have flooded social media with messages of condolences to the family of the late Binyavanga Wainaina, who died on Tuesday night in hospital after suffering a stroke.
  
  
• Kenya: Legalizing Gay Sex is Just the Right Thing to Do
  [allAfrica] In the run-up to the expected judgement challenging section 162 and 165 of the Penal Code of Kenya that outlaws same-sex relationships, I am reminded of the Zulu South Africans who have a positive way of greeting. They say "Sawabona" meaning "I see you". The expected response is "Ngikhona", which means "I am here".
  
  
• Kenya: Kenyan Court Due to Rule on Decriminalising Homosexuality
  [Capital FM] Nairobi -Kenya's High Court is on Friday expected to deliver a long-awaited ruling on whether to scrap colonial-era laws which criminalise homosexuality, a verdict that could have repercussions across Africa.
  
  
• Africa: Meghan Markle and Identity Politics - When Racist Trolls Become the New Normal
  [This is Africa] Online age, the bane of social media platforms; 4chan, 8chan among others where public figures gets lampooned, at the click of a button. Meghan Markle has been at the receiving end of unprecedented visceral abuse, fuelled in part by racism and negative media coverage. Time to introspect and look into our global consciousness, writes Andrew Chatora.