Advocates for Human Dignity

War zone rapes need to be addressed

admin — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:20:12 +0000

At the recent G8 meeting in London, the G8 ministers spoke out against the use of sexual violence in war-zones. Advocates for Human Dignity applauds this step forward in the recognition of the need to eradicate the use of a sexual violence as a tool in armed conflict. Under the Geneva Conventions 1949, violence [...]

Combating Child Sacrifice in Uganda

admin — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:25:23 +0000

By Henok Gabisa LLM, Human Rights Analyst Introduction As callous and as remorseless a practice as it is, human sacrifice is one of the bizarre and absurd phenomena that is on the raise in the Great Lakes Region of Africa. Children are the common target hunts for their particular body parts to perform the ritual [...]

Displacement in North Kivu

admin — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:08:36 +0000

By Firdaus Arastu, Human Rights Analyst Since the M23 rebellion in April 2012, violence has racked the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Reports vary, but between 200,000 and 700,000 people have been displaced by the conflict and are either living in harsh conditions in camps or in makeshift shelters. The [...]

New partner in Uganda for AHD

admin — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:53:05 +0000

Advocates for Human Dignity is very proud to announce that we agreed to a partnership with Empower and Care Organization (EACO) of Uganda. The relationship will start with the exchange of information on human rights in Uganda while also fostering closer ties which both parties are confident will eventually lead to joint projects between [...]

Human Rights and over 60 years of Activism

admin — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:14:39 +0000

10 December, 1948 was the day on which United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). With the inspiring notions and continuing hopes for the race of human being, the United Nations adopted the first and major instrument of human rights, the UDHR just three years after its establishment. The Declaration [...]

Ntanganda & Mudacumura must be surrendered to the ICC

admin — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 11:04:17 +0000

Recently the Prosecutor’s Office of the ICC renewed its call for the arrest and surrender of Bosco Ntaganda and Sylvestre Mudacumura, whom are both subjects to ICC arrest warrants. Both mens are accused of committing various international criminal offenses defined under the Rome Statute of the ICC. In the July 2012 arrest warrant, Pre-trial [...]

Iraq’s ‘Moral Police’ target teenagers for their appearance

admin — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:23:02 +0000

Looks Could Kill: Iraq’s ‘Moral Police’ target teenagers for their ‘emo’ appearance. After Saddam Hussein’s toppling, control of Iraq’s streets shifted to the Shi’ite militia. The Shi’ite, who had previously been oppressed under Hussein’s rule have themselves been subjugating a section of society. The government has been promoting the idea that homosexuality is a sin, [...]

Reactions to the attacks on embassies

admin — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:45:26 +0000

This week, a violent attack on the American embassy in Benghazi left the American ambassador to Libya dead on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Several other employees of the embassy, as well as several Libyans, were also killed. The embassy in Cairo was also attacked on Tuesday, though there were no causalities reported. [...]

State Dept issues S. Sudan Travel Warning

admin — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:29:23 +0000

The United States State Department recently released an updated travel advisory for the Republic of South Sudan. The advisory warns ‘U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to the Republic of South Sudan and strongly recommends U.S. citizens defer all travel to the country.’ While it is understandable that travel advisories are in place in [...]

Uganda’s alarming rise in AIDS prevalence

admin — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:45:00 +0000

Uganda once had international acclaim after successfully reducing its AIDS infection rates in the 1990s. However, the country’s recent reversal has been causing alarm and complacency has been pin-pointed as the cause of this trend. Last month the U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton voiced her concerns with Uganda as one of only two African [...]