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» 19.02.2010 - Rights groups hail report recommendations
» 16.02.2010 - Gambia expels UNICEF envoy
» 12.02.2010 - Opposition leaders accused of forming terror cells
» 09.02.2010 - Two journalists arrested in Cameroon
» 04.02.2010 - Unblock websites – rights group
» 03.02.2010 - Gay rights activist arrested in Malawi
» 03.02.2010 - Guinea twists September massacre findings
» 22.01.2010 - Anti-homosexuality law threat to fighting AIDS
» 14.01.2010 - Museveni distances himself from anti gay bill
» 14.01.2010 - CAR's president blocking peace process - ICG
» 13.01.2010 - Egypt varsity bans surgical masks in exams hall
» 07.01.2010 - Ruling party protects Ashanti minister
» 07.01.2010 - Amnesty calls for release of gay couple
» 04.01.2010 - Egyptian women to appeal niqab ban
» 04.01.2010 - Court to rule on fate of local paper Thursday
» 22.12.2009 - Five sentenced to death and 33 to life
» 21.12.2009 - Guinean crackdown amounts to crimes against humanity, report
» 17.12.2009 - Media rights group condemns arrest of media players
» 17.12.2009 - Sweden minister speaks on freedom of expression in Ethiopia
» 16.12.2009 - Speaker calls for law to protect women against harassment
» 11.12.2009 - 30 Christian women arrested in Eritrea
» 10.12.2009 - Clerics back government on Anti-Homosexuality Bill
» 09.12.2009 - Arab states slammed for using excessive force
» 08.12.2009 - RSF condemns closure of newspaper in Ethiopia
» 08.12.2009 - AI urges Sudan to stop excessive force on protestors
» 03.12.2009 - Swedish government threatens to cut aid
» 01.12.2009 - Prominent rights activist arrested in Guinea
» 27.11.2009 - Guinea's independent press group threatened by military
» 17.11.2009 - Media warns legislators against enacting anti-media law
» 03.11.2009 - "Strip Gambia off AU human rights body"
» 29.10.2009 - Remove death penalty on gays - Clergy
» 23.10.2009 - Uganda must pursue peace and unity - Mwesigwa
» 21.10.2009 - Eritrea is the bottom last in Press Freedom Index 2009
» 16.10.2009 - Zimbabwe's forced marriage collapses?
» 16.10.2009 - Chad expels Cameroon editor
» 15.10.2009 - Homosexuals angered by proposed law
» 12.10.2009 - Guineans heed stay-away call
» 09.10.2009 - UN experts raise concern on Gambia's threats of rights defenders
» 06.10.2009 - UNESCO chief condemns killing of Nigerian editor
» 01.10.2009 - UN calls for independent probe in Guinea's deaths
» 30.09.2009 - Guinea's leader to be tough against future protests
» 29.09.2009 - UN hails Sudanese order to lift censorship
» 28.09.2009 - Scores killed by soldiers in Guinea protest
» 28.09.2009 - Release of Zimbabwean activits signal new beginning
» 25.09.2009 - Ugandan editors charged with sedition
» 25.09.2009 - Nigerien editor face criminal libel charge
» 09.09.2009 - Swaziland media urged to speed up self-regulation process
» 03.09.2009 - Violence erupts as junior Bongo declared winner
» 27.08.2009 - SA lawyer appointed UN rights expert on violence against women
» 26.08.2009 - Four Uganda’s journalists face criminal charges
» 25.08.2009 - Niger’s civil society faces increased intimidation, TI
» 25.08.2009 - Crackdown on independent media ahead of election
» 24.08.2009 - JED calls for investigation of journalist's death
» 21.08.2009 - Commission outraged by more Senegalese arrests
» 11.08.2009 - Zuma to halt appointment of chief prosecutor
» 05.08.2009 - IFJ condemns seizure of magazines in Morocco
» 03.08.2009 - Niger’s referendum will go ahead
» 21.07.2009 - RSF denounces journalists’ harassment in Congo
» 15.07.2009 - CPJ denounces death threats on journalist
» 10.07.2009 - HRW report was fallacy, E/Guinea
» 09.07.2009 - Political tension hampers media freedom
» 08.07.2009 - Amnesty International warns Ethiopia on new anti terrorism law
» 22.06.2009 - Rights body call for cessation of torture in Angola
» 09.06.2009 - CPJ calls for protection of journalists in Somalia
» 09.06.2009 - 32 alleged coup plotters charged in Ethiopia
» 05.06.2009 - Political figures killed and hunted in Guinea-Bissau
» 03.06.2009 - Swazi human rights lawyer arrested
» 02.06.2009 - US senators petition Gambia in missing journalist's case
» 28.05.2009 - Gays mistreated in Rwanda - AI
» 27.05.2009 - Eritrea rejects release of Swedish journalist
» 27.05.2009 - MPs angered by dissolution of parliament
» 27.05.2009 - Court upholds decision to sack anti graft chief
» 26.05.2009 - Alleged coup plotters denied bail
» 20.05.2009 - Thousands demand Junta to scrap elections
» 14.05.2009 - Mauritania editor narrowly escapes death
» 14.05.2009 - Tanzanian newspaper faces closure from harsh court decision
» 14.05.2009 - Kenya to dispel repressive clause in media law
» 13.05.2009 - Tunisian president urged to stop bullying the media
» 12.05.2009 - Broadcasting commission suspends licence of private radio station
» 12.05.2009 - Authorities ready for BBC suspension talks
» 11.05.2009 - RSF condemns suspension of local station in DRC
» 11.05.2009 - Egypt threatens to dismantle NGO for accepting foreign funding
» 08.05.2009 - Sex starved Kenyan man seeks compensation in court
» 05.05.2009 - AI calls on Ethiopian govt to reveal fate of political prisoners
» 04.05.2009 - Got you swine...!
» 28.04.2009 - Amnesty International begs for protection of alleged gay men
» 28.04.2009 - 27 soldiers sentence to life imprisonment
» 27.04.2009 - Rwanda suspends BBC broadcast for being bias
» 24.04.2009 - ECOWAS asked to intervene on the missing journalist case
» 24.04.2009 - HRW calls for drastic changes on draft Sudanese press law
» 22.04.2009 - Arabic network condemns sentencing of journalist
» 21.04.2009 - Bouteflika told to redress rights violations in Algeria
» 16.04.2009 - Eritrea’s human rights violations deepen the rights crisis, HRW
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