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AllAfrica News: Human Rights

• Somalia: Calls for Independent Probe of Journalist's Murder
  [IFJ] The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliates, the National Union of Journalists of Great Britain and Ireland, and the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), today called on the British Foreign Secretary William Hague to ensure that the "independent inquiry" he called for into the murder of Hassan Osman Abdi, director of Shabelle Media Network, is truly independent.
  
  
• Malawi: New Report Highlights Press Freedom Challenges
  [MISA] A recent report released by the civil society organisation Civic and Political Space Platform (CPSP) shows that the media in Malawi continue to grow despite facing very tough conditions.
  
  
• Kenya: Changing Tide in the Fight Against FGM
  [Nairobi Star] To most people, February 6 may have little or no significance, but to me, the International Day for Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation is an annual reminder of a horrific operation I underwent at the age of just five. It is a reminder of the four days of prolonged labour, and the one-and-a-half days I spent unconscious, after delivering my first child, because, as any woman who has undergone FGM will tell you, giving birth once you have been mutilated is a very dangerous process. It is also a day of
  
  
• Sudan: Journalist Assaulted, Humiliated At Parliament
  [Sudan Tribune] Juba - A renowned journalist was humiliated and beaten by security guards manning South Sudan's National Assembly on Monday, eye witnesses told Sudan Tribune.
  
  
• Uganda: Orphanage Management Policy in Offing
  [Monitor] A policy governing the management of orphanages in the country will be among the first business to be discussed when Parliament resumes today, officials have said.
  
  
• Namibia: Former Fighters Want Acceptance
  [New Era] Windhoek - Former Koevoet/SWATF members recently revealed that 21 years after independence, they still have to endure harsh words, defamation, discrimination, ra­cist remarks and bad treatment at government institutions and from high-ranking government officials, especially at SWAPO political rallies.
  
  
• Nigeria: Rights Groups Asks Jonathan to Stop Media Repression
  [Daily Trust] The Human Rights Writers' Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has challenged President Goodluck Jonathan to check the emerging dangerous trend of systematic media repression across the country.
  
  
• Sudan: Update On Violations in Blue Nile and South Kordofan
  [HRInfo] The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) continues to follow the conflicts that erupted in the Sudanese states of Blue Nile and South Kordofan in the summer of 2011.
  
  
• Egypt: ANHRI Condemns Attacks On Protestors and Raids On Houses in Search for a Camera
  [HRInfo] The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) condemned today the Egyptian security services for breaching the agreement held with the MPs yesterday night, by attacking protestors in all the streets leading to the MIO; chasing them and arresting dozens of them, as well as using excessive force that led to the injury of hundreds of them, including the head of the medical syndicate, Khairy Abdel Dayem, and several other activists including the young activist "Salma Said" who was shot by cartridges
  
  
• Egypt: Rights Activists At Risk of Prison
  [HRInfo] Egyptian authorities should drop all charges against unregistered nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and stop the criminal investigation of such groups, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities should not take action against NGOs until Egypt's new parliament proposes legislation consistent with international legal standards, Human Rights Watch said. The organizations under investigation are not registered under the Mubarak-era Associations Law, in many cases because the government failed to respond to
  
  
• Eritrea: Efforts to Improve Living Standard of War - Disabled Veterans in Hagaz Sub-Zone Bear Fruitful Outcome
  [Shabait] Hagaz - Efforts to improve the living standard of war-disabled veterans in Hagaz sub-zone have borne fruitful outcome.
  
  
• Eritrea: Endeavors to Ensure Equal Opportunity for Hearing-Impaired Nationals Register Encouraging Outcome
  [Shabait] Asmara - At an assessment meeting it conducted, the branch of the Eritrean Association of The Deaf in Central region said that endeavors to ensure equal opportunity for hearing-impaired nationals have registered encouraging outcome.
  
  
• Liberia: Children Assured of Protection
  [New Democrat] President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has assured the protection of children in keeping with the passage of Children's Act on the Convention on the Rights of the Child obligating national authorities and parents to protect the rights of children.
  
  
• Egypt: Clinton Remarks On Syria, Egypt At Munich Security Conference
  [State Department] Munich - At the Munich Security Conference
  
  
• South Africa: Oscar Wins Laureus Disability Award
  [SA Info] South African athlete Oscar Pistorius received the Laureus World Sportsperson with a Disability Award at a gala function in London on Monday evening.