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In this article the author discusses human rights violations made by most countries in Africa.
- Crackdown must not erode rights. Delport, Rikus // Finance Week;3/17/2003, p4
Focuses on the South African government efforts to establish a human rights culture aimed at upholding the right to privacy. Conflict between protecting the rights of ordinary people and the duties of law enforcement agencies; Need for administrative agencies to avoid creating the impression...
- Togo. // Africa Report;May/Jun92, Vol. 37 Issue 3, p7
Details a report `Togo: Impunity for Human Rights Violators at a Time of Reform,' released by Amnesty International in April 1992 calling on the Togolese government to bring past perpetrators of `widespread human rights violations' to justice. Last year's discussion of human rights abuses at...
- Human rights on trial. Nowrojee, Binaifer // Africa Report;Sep/Oct92, Vol. 37 Issue 5, p70
Discusses how Nigeria's human rights community remains an anomaly in a continent which has yet to develop strong local human rights organizations. Police raids on human rights advocates; Why the military government has viewed human rights with suspicion and mistrust; Human rights organizations...
- A sorry record. Kelso, B.J. // Africa Report;Sep/Oct94, Vol. 39 Issue 5, p59
Focuses on human rights violations in Africa. Use of mass arrests detention without trial; Ill treatment of citizens; Jailing of hundreds of political opponents.
- Three men, their babies and a dead horse. // Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;5/17/93, Vol. 20 Issue 22, p34
States the Canadian Human Rights Commission is pursuing a complaint on behalf of three single fathers who were refused payments under the universal baby bonus system that expired on January 1, 1993. Ottawa has applied to the Federal Court of Canada to abort a costly CHRC hearing, arguing it's a...
- Readin', rights and 'rithmetic. // Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;5/17/93, Vol. 20 Issue 22, p34
States Alberta Education has found in a survey of Grades 8 and 11 that males, especially Grade 11 small-town males, are less tolerant than urban males and all females when it comes to `human rights' questions involving different races and cultures, women's rights, elderly and disabled rights and...
- The rights regime goes for broke. Verburg, Peter // Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;7/18/94, Vol. 21 Issue 31, p12
Discusses recommendations for the future of the Individual's Rights Protection Act (IRPA) and the Alberta Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that were recently offered by the Alberta human rights review panel. Comments voiced by critics who see these recommendations as the work of a biased panel of...
- A sacred cow moseys down the trail. Sheremata, Davis // Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;10/2/95, Vol. 22 Issue 42, p12
Declares that complaints to the Alberta Human Rights Commission (AHRC) are way down. Reasons for this; Suggestion by AHRC advocates that the agency have its powers increased; Opposition from the Canadian province's cabinet; Other aspects.
- The constitutional protection of human rights. Moens, Gabriel A. // Australia & World Affairs;Spring96, Issue 30, p48
Discusses the constitutional protection of human rights in Australia. Approach to jurisprudence taken by the High Court in the absence of a bill of rights in the country; Freedom of religion; External affairs power; Attempts to adopt a bill of rights.
