A coalition of African charities has gathered evidence which suggests children and adults from non-Arab speaking ethnic groups in Sudan are being forced into slavery by the Sudanese army. The Darfur Consortium gathered 100 eye witness accounts from former abductees, mostly women and girls. Female abductees were raped, forced to marry their captors and perform [...]

For all of its sympathetic hand wringing, the media in countries like the United States and Britain have ignored the part Western nations have played in this mess and placed the blame solely on the shoulders of President Robert Mugabe and his demand for land reform.

A federal jury in San Francisco clears Chevron of any responsibility for the May 1998 shooting and killing of protesters in the oil-rich Niger Delta. A big set-back for human rights activists who were hoping to jump-start the use of a centuries-old law allowing foreigners to file lawsuits in U.S. courts alleging international law violations.

“We beg the Pope to help, to pray for us so that the government changes its attitude towards us and respects our rights as indigenous peoples of this land.” - Kalahari Bushmen.
As as the Vatican established diplomatic relations with Botswana, the displaced Kalahari Bushmen are appealing to the Pope to help them in their fight [...]

That conditions in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe are dire is an under statement. The country that has seen six digit inflation, crumbling infrastructure, and failed political solution is also faced with massive public health issues - a cholera outbreak is on the horizon just as food supply is running out. And when some concerned international personalities [...]

Reporters Without Borders reports the release of Emmanuel Emeka Asiwe, the Nigerian editor of the Huhuonline.com website, after a week of interrogation by the dreadful State Security Service (SSS), the domestic intelligence agency. Although Emeka has been released, the SSS was held on to his passport.
“Irked by websites with political or satirical content, the Nigerian [...]

“This is something that has been very dear to me, and disturbing to me for a long time,” Theron said. At age 15, Charlize witnessed her mother shoot her alcoholic father to death while he was threatening the family. She later won an Oscar for Best Actress in 2004 for her portrayal of a domestic violence victim turned serial killer in “Monster.”

The United Nations estimates there may be half a million Mauritanians living in slavery today. Human-rights organizations in Mauritania have freed 43 men, women and children from slavery this year. They say that despite many laws against it, the practice of forced labor continues. The government rejects the charge, but some recently freed victims have [...]

The United Nations Security Council should urgently increase the number of peacekeepers in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to protect civilians in the face of new fighting and mounting civilian deaths.

While American president-elect Barack Obama faces the challenges of a global economic crisis and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, one group, ENOUGH, is asking that he also tackle the crisis in Darfur.