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AllAfrica News: Human Rights

• South Africa: Residents of Cape Town's Informal Settlements March for Housing, Water and Sanitation
  [Daily Maverick] Residents from 23 communities marched on the Sea Point Promenade on Monday, calling for the City of Cape Town to prioritise housing and access to water and sanitation in informal settlements.
  
  
• Africa: End Vaccine Apartheid Before Millions More Die
  [IPS] Sydney and Kuala Lumpur -- At least 85 poor countries will not have significant access to coronavirus vaccines before 2023. Unfortunately, a year's delay will cause an estimated 2.5 million avoidable deaths in low and lower-middle-income countries. As the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General has put it, the world is at the brink of a catastrophic moral failure.
  
  
• Cameroon: No More Half Measures in Cameroon's Anglophone Crisis
  [ISS] From 16 January to 7 February, Cameroon hosted the African Nations Championship. Some games were played in the town of Limbe in the South-West region, which is in the grip of an armed conflict between government forces and secessionist militias.
  
  
• Nigeria: Suspend Bill On Hijab, CAN Tells National Assembly
  [This Day] The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called on the National Assembly to suspend a bill before the House of Representatives seeking to institutionalise the use of hijab in schools.
  
  
• Gambia: MOI & UNDP Set to Launch the Prisons Rapid Assessment Report, Others
  [The Point] Banjul, 22nd March 2021- The Ministry of Interior (MOI) is set to launch the Prisons Rapid Assessment Report, Photobook and Documentary with the support of UNDP on Wednesday 24th March 2021 from 8:30am to 1pm.
  
  
• Ethiopia: Statement On Gender-Based Violence in Tigray Region of Ethiopia
  [Unicef] "Amid a worsening humanitarian situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, reports of indiscriminate and targeted attacks against civilians, including rape and other horrific forms of sexual violence, continue to surface. This must stop.
  
  
• Morocco: Open Letter From 15 NGOs Urging the European Union to Take Action for the Release of Maâti Monjib
  [RSF] In a letter addressed to the European Union, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and 14 other NGOs are calling on the High Representative of the European Union and the EU Special Representative for Human Rights to condemn the sentencing and imprisonment of Maâti Monjib and take action for his immediate release.
  
  
• Nigeria: Hijab - Again, Tension in Ilorin As Hoodlums Attack School
  [This Day] There was tension in Ilorin, Kwara State capital on Monday as violence erupted when hoodlums, suspected to be Muslim youths, invaded C&S College, Sabo-Oke, Ilorin, with cutlass and dane guns. The students of the college were also chased away.
  
  
• South Africa: Department of Home Affairs Flouts Court Orders, Year After Year
  [GroundUp] Still no functional refugee reception office in Cape Town
  
  
• South Africa: Farm Workers Say They Have Nothing to Celebrate On Human Rights Day
  [GroundUp] Illegal evictions of farm dwellers on the rise, says union
  
  
• Africa: Racism Is a Trade Union Issue - ITUC Statement for World Day Against Racism
  [PR Newswire] Brussels -- Racism is a trade union issue: ITUC statement for World Day Against Racism
  
  
• Egypt: Nawal El Saadawi - the Fierce Feminist Who Liberated Herself From Fear
  [Daily Maverick] Nawal el Saadawi, the Egyptian feminist writer-activist who died on Sunday at 89, was a physician, psychiatrist and revolutionary pathbreaker. She wasn't afraid of death, believing that 'before death one is unconscious'.
  
  
• Mali: When Will There Be Justice for Mali Massacre?
  [HRW] Two Years Since Over 150 Civilians Killed in Ogossagou Village
  
  
• South Africa: Human Rights in Jeopardy - Some SA Born-Frees Are Still Denied Their Right to Birth Registration
  [Daily Maverick] South Africa's history of racial inequality and harsh oppression continues to inform the impact of birth registration laws: the majority of the children who are unregistered are black, poor and from marginalised communities.
  
  
• South Africa: Male Ambassadors Take Up the Cudgels for Fight Against Gender-Based Violence
  [Daily Maverick] Despite gender-based violence being described by President Cyril Ramaphosa as a pandemic, the relentless attack on women continues unabated. But an activist has started an initiative he hopes will nip it in the bud.