Category: Human Rights

Guinean Couple Charged with Forced labor of a young Guinean girl

Guinean Couple Charged with Forced labor of a young Guinean girl

Posted by | Jun 15, 2018 | , , |

FORT WORTH, TX – A Guinean couple, Mohamed Toure, 57, and Denise Cros-Toure, 57, of Ft. Worth, Texas, appeared in federal court in the Northern District of Texas on a criminal complaint charging them with arranging for a 5-year old West African girl to work in their home for over 16 years without pay and without any education. While these types of indentured servant arrangements are prevalent in Africa, the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution specifically prohibits both slavery and involuntary servitude. It is, perhaps, the only Constitutional amendment that dictates the behavior of private citizens as...

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U.S. imposes financial sanctions on the former President of the Gambia Yahya Jammeh

U.S. imposes financial sanctions on the former President of the Gambia Yahya Jammeh

Posted by | Mar 23, 2018 | , , , |

Washington – Over the last year, various departments and agencies of the United States Government have actively collected information from multiple sources—including the Intelligence Community, U.S. missions around the world, non-governmental organizations, and Congress—to support sanctions designations for individuals around the world. In the executive order, the President issued sanctions and visa restrictions on several persons around the world for human rights abuse or corruption. Simultaneously, the Department of the Treasury issued a number of designations targeting individuals and entities engaged in human rights abuse or corruption or supporting those sanctioned by the President. Yahya Jammeh (Jammeh), the former President...

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UN human rights expert launches official visit to assess freedom of expression in Liberia

UN human rights expert launches official visit to assess freedom of expression in Liberia

Posted by | Mar 7, 2018 | , , |

PRESS RELEASE: The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, David Kaye, is carrying out his first official visit to Liberia this week to assess the situation of freedom of expression and access to information in the country. “This visit will help me identify Liberia’s current challenges and suggest law and policy changes that will strengthen the right to freedom of expression,” said Kaye. “The constitution strongly protects freedom of expression, but there is a recognition that the legal and institutional frameworks need to be reformed for this guarantee to be meaningful in practice, both for individuals and the...

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When the dust settles, President Weah will deliver for Liberia

When the dust settles, President Weah will deliver for Liberia

Posted by | Mar 4, 2018 | , |

Liberia’s president George M. Weah leads a national cleanup campaign When citizens evaluate a president’s character, they tend to view him or her through a prism of immediacy.  In Liberia, millions of citizens are hoping that President Weah answers their wishes and aspirations by delivering what has not been provided in and by the previous administration. It is fair to acknowledge that President Weah and his government inherited a nation that is not only struggling financially and economically but one that is also damaged in various fabrics of the society. Today, there is a strange and unusual mindset that...

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Operation ADWENPA III: Child Traffickers Caught in INTERPOL West Africa Operation

Operation ADWENPA III: Child Traffickers Caught in INTERPOL West Africa Operation

Posted by | Nov 16, 2017 | , |

Nearly 40 people either being smuggled or trafficked for illicit labor were identified and rescued during an INTERPOL-coordinated operation to strengthen border controls in West Africa. Many of those rescued were unidentified minors who were being taken to work in illegal gold mines in Guinea. Others were individuals who had paid smugglers to get them to Europe via Libya. The eight-day (5 – 12 October) Operation Adwenpa III involved more than 100 officers at 23 sites across key land border and airports in eight countries – Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo. More than...

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Global ‘False’ Witness Targets Nicaragua

Global ‘False’ Witness Targets Nicaragua

Posted by | Nov 16, 2017 | , , |

Global Witness is a well-established environmental and human rights non-governmental organization based in Great Britain. As with several other very similar institutions, its stories frequently appear in the press as authoritative sources on international issues. Since the 1980s and, increasingly so, after the turn of the century, the status of NGOs as trustworthy and reliable information sources on foreign affairs has become increasingly unsound, flawed and on shaky ground as they have been more and more co-opted by personal interests and foreign governments to promote the Western elites’ neocolonial global policy agenda. Global false Witness in Nicaragua In the...

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‘We slept out in the open air like wild animals’

‘We slept out in the open air like wild animals’

Posted by | Oct 23, 2017 | , |

Commercial farmers have a responsibility to identify the impact of their operations to avoid causing, contributing to, or being complicit in human rights abuses, writes Nnoko-Mewanu [Reuters] By Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu “We slept out in the open air like wild animals. Our children fell sick because of the cold,” Felicia K told me. “We had not put up any proper structures. We were using leaves.” Felicia, a 52-year-old mother of 10, is one of many rural Zambians who has lost land, homes, and livelihoods when commercial farms displaced them. The Zambian government is promoting large-scale agricultural investment to diversify the...

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UN General Assembly elects 15 members-states into Human Rights Council

UN General Assembly elects 15 members-states into Human Rights Council

Posted by | Oct 17, 2017 | , |

UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK–– The UN General Assembly has elected fifteen countries into the United Nations Human Rights Council. Afghanistan, Angola, Australia, Chile, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Qatar, Senegal, Slovakia, Spain, and Ukraine were elected in a vote on Monday, The elected countries will serve a three-year term beginning January 1, 2018. Among the 15 outgoing members — Albania, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Botswana, the Republic of Congo, El Salvador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Latvia, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Paraguay, Portugal, and Qatar — 11 members except for Botswana, the Republic of Congo, India and Indonesia were eligible...

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George Weah First 100 Days

Countdown to Weah’s First 100 Days

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