Advocacy & Campaigns

10 April 2015

On 8 April 2015, human rights organisations Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI) and Haki Africa, had their accounts frozen over alleged suspicions of funding terrorism.

One year since the Chibok Girls were removed from a school and wrenched from the relative peace, comfort and safety of their community, homes and families there are more questions that answers.

Today, 14 April 2015, sadly marks exactly one year since over 200 innocent girls were abducted in their school in Chibok, Nigeria by militant group Boko Haram.

LAGOS, NIGERIA, 14 APRIL 2015 – Today makes it exactly one year that 200+ young female students from the Government Girl’s Secondary School Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria were abducted by heavily armed men suspected to be Boko haram Islamist terrorists in the dead of the night from their school dur

In a letter, Danish solidarity organisation Afrika Kontakt, along with Danish Member of European Parliament Rina Ronja Kari and other Danish organisations, has urged the President of the United Nations Security Council to give the UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, MINURSO, a mandate to m

If that well-worn cliché about never wasting a crisis applies to anything, it is the labour movement today. Contrary to some current rhetoric, the movement does not need to return to what it was: it needs to become something different.

We are seriously disturbed by a tragedy that left 5 prisoners dead and 30 others seriously injured after trigger happy prison officials opened fire at the defenseless captives for merely demanding food, barely three weeks after the abduction of a human rights defender.

I have a problem with politics of disappearance and brutality. And I have a problem with dictatorship and Robert Mugabe's leadership style.

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