Congolese activist convicted

by Georg Neumann on 6:26 pm on Tuesday, 29. September 2009 | No Comments

The conviction of Golden Misabiko, a Congolese human rights and transparency activist, shows once again the increasingly difficult and challenging situation for activists around the world.
Golden Misabiko, President of the Katanga branch of the Congolese human rights organisation Association africaine de défense des droits de l’homme (ASADHO) was arrested and convicted after being released on [...]

New report: Connecting Corruption and Human Rights

by Craig Fagan on 3:43 pm on Friday, 12. June 2009 | No Comments

Human rights and corruption are not always connected as being integral parts of the same power game of abuses – political, economic, social and cultural. Yet the ties between them have been growing stronger for too long as corruption is increasingly used as a means and ends to human rights violations:

The stealing of oil revenues [...]