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CIVICUS calls for fair and transparent inquiry into the deaths of protesting miners in South Africa

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Natasha

Global civil society network CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation is deeply saddened at the killing of over 30 protesting miners by police on 16 August in Marikana, North West Province, South Africa.

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Mon, 20/08/2012 - 14:43
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Civil society concern at ban of newspaper in Tanzania

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Civil society concern at ban of newspaper in Tanzania

Article 19, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Committee to Protect Journalists, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project, Legal and Human Rights Centre, Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition and the Media Institute of Southern Africa-Tanzania, are concerned about reports that, on Monday 30 July, the government of Tanzania indefinitely banned MwanaHalisi, a weekly Kiswahili newspaper.

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Wed, 15/08/2012 - 16:23
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Civil society concern at ban of newspaper in Tanzania

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Natasha
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Civil society concern at ban of newspaper in Tanzania

Article 19, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Committee to Protect Journalists, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project, Legal and Human Rights Centre, Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition and the Media Institute of Southern Africa-Tanzania, are concerned about reports that, on Monday 30 July, the government of Tanzania indefinitely banned MwanaHalisi, a weekly Kiswahili newspaper.

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Wed, 15/08/2012 - 16:23
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18 Years for Eskinder Nega

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Natasha

Update: Eskinder Nega has been sentenced to 18 years after being convicted of "conspiring with rebels". Nega was arrested last year and accused of trying to incite violence by posting articles online that were considered to be critical of the government. Nega and 22 others were charged under Ethiopia's 2009 anti-terrorism law because of their links to US-based group Ginbot 7. Nega received the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award in May 2012, and Amnesty International has designated him a prisoner of conscience.

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Tue, 24/07/2012 - 16:45
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International Community Must Act against latest curbs on free speech in Ethiopia

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Natasha
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CIVICUS

Johannesburg, 9 July 2012: Recent moves to curb freedom of expression in Ethiopia

represent a steep escalation in an ongoing campaign to silence dissent, says global

civil society network CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation.

 On 27 June, prominent blogger and human rights defender Eskinder Nega was convicted

along with five other exiled journalists for attempting to incite violence and

overthrow the constitutional order. Eskinder was arrested on 14 September 2011 after

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Tue, 10/07/2012 - 10:47
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Civil Society Shrinking in Uganda

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Natasha
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Space for civil society shrinking in Uganda say national and global CSOs

Johannesburg, 25 June 2012. Civil society space in Uganda is rapidly shrinking, warn

global network CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation and Uganda-based

East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP). Independent civil

society organisations are being openly threatened and placed under excessive

scrutiny by senior government officials.

 

For example, on 18 June, a skills-building workshop for LGBTI human rights defenders

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Tue, 26/06/2012 - 11:01
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Free Activist Who Spoke Out

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Lerato Pagiwa

Anti-corruption activist Faustin Ndikumana was arrested on 7 February and charged with making "false declarations". He had alleged that some magistrates had got their posts by bribing officials in the Ministry of Justice.

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Fri, 10/02/2012 - 11:20
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Future of last remaining human rights monitoring NGO in Ethiopia in the balance .

1 February 2012.

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Fri, 03/02/2012 - 13:24
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CIVICUS Interview with Dale McKinley .

Dale McKinley, official spokesperson of South Africa’s Right to Know Campaign (R2K) and member of its national working group spoke to CIVICUS about the Protection of Information Bill passed by the National Assembly and awaiting approval of the National Council of Provinces. Dale is a long time social and political activist as well as an independent writer.

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Fri, 03/02/2012 - 13:22
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Ethiopian teacher who burned himself buried

Yenesew Gebre, the 29-year-old teacher in southern western Ethiopia who burned himself Friday after being subjected to unbearable abuse and injustice by the Meles regime, was buried this afternoon. Meles Zenawi’s security forces prevented his family members and friends from attending the burial ceremony, according to the VOA

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Ehipian teacher who burned himself buried
BBC on Ethiopian teacher who burned himself in protest
A teacher burns himself in southern Ethiopia
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Thu, 17/11/2011 - 16:17
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