The truth remains that no artist through Nigeria’s postcolonial years has contributed close to what Fela did – and continues to do - for human rights and social justice.
The alleged ISIS-linked Australian-NZ citizen being taken into custody on the Syrian-Turkish border.
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The more President Mnangagwa’s government fails to engage democratically with its own citizens, the more it will negate any prospect of re-engagement with the West.
Forced labor is a widespread problem in fisheries on the high seas. Between 2012 and 2018, an estimated 100,000 people may have been victims of forced labor on thousands of different boats.
Demonstration in Montecitorio Square, Rome, Italy, on November 12, 2020 calling for the end of the government’s military actions in the northern region of Tigray.
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Providers of humanitarian aid haven’t been able to reach civilians in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. There are also reports that hundreds of civilians have been killed.
A British citizen living in France argues they had the right to assume their status upon moving there would not change in the future against their will.
Workers installing surveillance cameras in Shanghai in August 2020.
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Governments can do much to ensure mass vaccination of their citizens, particularly in the name of public health. But there needs to be careful examination of where that might breach human rights.
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa addressing the G20 recently.
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While South Africa should pay careful attention to all its existing trade and economic relations, particular attention should go to its intra-African economic relations.
A “creuseur,” or digger, descends into a tunnel at the mine in Kawama, Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Water at informal settlements, where sanitation and waste management facilities were absent, had high bacteria levels.
A protester wears a mask of the late Marsinah at a rally demanding justice for the female labour activist
who was killed during the rule of Indonesia’s New Order government.
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Our two-year study explores how female writers and journalists use online platforms to engage in gender activism, and how they navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with digital media.
On October 22, the French junior minister for digital transition and electronic communication, Cedric O, and the French prime minister, Jean Castex (rear) announcing the changeover of several departments to ‘maximum alert’, new curfew measures, and the new app ‘Tous Anti Covid’.
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In the current pandemic, finding the right balance between the protection of public health and respecting civil liberties has proven to be supremely difficult.
The White House is seen behind posters saying “loser” after the US presidential election.
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Governments of different political leanings helped forge the Human Rights Commission. To abolish it would diminish accountability and silence an important government critic.