Civil Society

Human Right

Burundi : Human Rights Leagues with controversial missions

11-29-2016 On 26 November, the Home Affairs Ministry organized a public protest march in the Burundian capital for two reasons: to protest against the deployment of the three commissioners of enquiry on the human rights situation in Burundi, recently appointed by the UN Human Rights Commission and to denounce the (...)
Media

Poor participation of women journalists in political matters

11-16-2016 The Association of Women Journalists-AFJO has organized this 15 November a workshop to sensitize women in general not to be afraid to provide political information, push media officials to encourage female journalists to work on political issues and urge civil society leaders to advocate for gender mainstream in the (...)
Governance

Do African Union Governance Reviews Work?

10-20-2014 Is the instrument adopted by the African Union to improve the quality of governance across the continent actually working? Yarik Turianskyi and Steven Gruzd look at what the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, civil society’s most important assessment of standards of governance, says. Does being an active member of (...)