# Die families van die Suid-Afrikaanse ingenieurs, Frik Potgieter en Peter Huxham, het 15-duisend handtekeninge ingesamel om hulle vrylating uit die tronk in Ekwatoriaal-Guinee te eis. Die versoekskrif word aan die minister van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking, Ronald Lamola, asook belangrike parlementêre persone oorhandig en dring aan op dringende diplomatieke optrede. Die twee bly agter […]
# ‘n Voormalige chirurg staan vandag in Frankryk tereg op aanklagte van verkragting en seksuele aanranding van honderde pasiënte. Die 74-jarige Joel le Scouarnec is reeds in die tronk nadat hy in 2020 skuldig bevind is aan die mishandeling van vier kinders. Hy word nou aangekla van die aanranding of verkragting van nog 299 pasiënte […]
# Wetenskaplikes het dit vermy om Januarie se hoë wêreldtemperature te koppel aan klimaatsverandering wat deur die mens veroorsaak is. Ondanks berigte dat temperature 1,33 grade Celcius hoër was as die gemiddeld vir die 20ste eeu, het navorsers aan die Nasionale Oseaniese en Atmosferiese Administrasie versuim om te sê dat kweekhuisgas-uitstraling vir die verhoging verantwoordelik […]
# The families of the South African engineers, Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, have gathered 15-thousand signatures demanding their release from prison in Equatorial Guinea. The petition will be handed to International Relations minister Ronald Lamola and key parliamentary figures, urging urgent diplomatic action. Despite a UN ruling declaring their detention unlawful, the two remain […]
# Freedom Park commemorates the 44th anniversary of the Matola Raid, where 15 liberation fighters were killed by apartheid forces in Mozambique. This attack epitomised the violence of apartheid, leading to intensified global struggles for justice and democracy. Freedom Park CEO Jane Mufamadi has emphasised the raid’s impact on the global fight against apartheid and […]
# VN sekretaris-generaal Antonio Guterres het gewaarsku dat menseregte wêreldwyd versmoor word, insluitende deur oorloë en geweld. Hy het aan die VN Menseregteraad in Geneve gesê dat menseregte versmoor word deur outokrate wat enige opposisie onderdruk omdat hulle vrees wat werklik bemagtigde mense mag doen. Hy sê oorlogstokers vee hulle af aan die internasionale reg, […]
# A former surgeon is to go on trial in France today charged with raping or sexually assaulting hundreds of patients, most of them children. Joel Le Scouarnec is already in jail after a court in 2020 found the 74-year old guilty of abusing four children. He now faces allegations that he also assaulted or […]
# Scientists have avoided linking January’s record-high global temperatures to human-caused climate change. Despite reporting that temperatures were 1.33 degrees Celcius above the 20th-century average, researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration did not say that greenhouse gas emissions were responsible for the increase. According to New Scientist, the agency faces rising pressure from […]
# United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has warned that human rights were being suffocated globally, including by wars and violence as well as autocrats crushing opposition and trampling on international law. He told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that human rights are being suffocated by autocrats, crushing opposition because they fear what a […]
