September 2012 – International Refugee Rights Initiative : International Refugee Rights Initiative

Human rights abuses in the Gambia – home to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Published: 6 Sep 2012

Under the leadership of Dawda Kairaba Jawara, the Gambia was known as a stable and democratic country where people could enjoy basic rights. However, since Yaha Jammeh came to power in a coup d’etat in July 1994, a lot has changed. Now, many human rights defenders, journalists, political opposition leaders and people who do not…

Can the new Somali government ensure sustained peace, security and proper governance?

Published: 4 Sep 2012

According to a public statement by SIHA on 23 August 2012, last week a female tea seller was dragged from a bus in the Baidoa region of Somalia by Al Shabaab militants, taken to the bush close by and beheaded. She had been based in Bardaale district (Bay region) and had, in the course of…

Another case of stoning as Sudanese women continue to be caught up in the chaos

Published: 3 Sep 2012

In July 2012, a 23 year old woman Laila Ibrahim Issa Jamool from Dar Hamer, a pastoralist tribe of Sudan’s South Kordofan region, found herself imprisoned in Omdurman women’s prison with her sick child who is suffering from asthma. Laila’s family moved to Khartoum because of conflict, poverty and the growing destruction of livelihoods in…