After spending two years in jail, a Filipino radio broadcaster set out to challenge the country's libel law that makes defamation a criminal offense.
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Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb commander, is charged at the ICTY with genocide, including the use of rape and other forms as sexual violence as a means to destroy thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats through “serious bodily or mental harm”, and by inflicting on them “conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction”.
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For people in the DRC, ensuring a well-trained and regularly paid army means the difference between being able to fetch wood or walk to school safely rather than being harassed, raped, or forced to do labor by soldiers along the way.
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A recent probe shows that almost 50 percent of Nigerian government fuel subsidies were stolen by officials. For many Nigerians, this revelation is a huge step towards fighting corruption and building a new culture of transparency.
Posted in: Africa, Governance & Accountability
Topics: anticorruption, corruption, fuel subsidy, Nigeria, resource transparency, transparency, Udo Jude Ilo
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