On the third anniversary of the pro-democracy protest movement Hirak, human rights organisations express their alarm over the dangerous intensification of repressive tactics Algerian authorities are using to silence peaceful dissent and stifle civil society.
Life of Burkinabe investigative journalist in danger
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A voter entering a polling station in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 29 November 2015, Émilie Iob (VOA), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons No stranger to being under attack Burkinabe journalist Yacouba Ladji Bama was shot at, on his way home after co-hosting a panel discussion on electoral corruption.
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 23 December 2020.
On his return from the town of Dori, in the Sahel region, where he co-hosted a panel discussion on electoral corruption during the electoral campaign on November 22, 2020, award-wining investigative journalist and editor of
“Courrier Confidentiel”, Yacouba Ladji Bama was targeted when the vehicle in which he was travelling came under a gun attack, according to the journalist’s testimony.
No to Eviction! Defend the Occupation Carlos Marighella Against the Genocide Racist State of Brazil A statement from the Federation of Brazilian Revolutionary Syndicalist Organizations opposing the forced eviction of 85 families. First published by the International Confederation of Labour.
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The brave journey of the Carlos Marighella Occupation (CMO) is going through a decisive moment in its recent history, as the forced eviction of the 85 families that occupy the land on the outskirts of the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil is scheduled for December 11. Born out of the need to face the pandemic of misery and Covid-19, the struggling poor people occupied an abandoned land for 20 years to assert the right to housing and dignified life.