The book "Crónicas Eleitorais e Direitos Humanos em Moçambique" (Electoral Chronicles and Human Rights in Mozambique) is a collection of ten texts that deal with the electoral scenario in the country, highlighting the human rights violations carried out, for the most part, by the police during the polls. The digital book, to be launched next Wednesday (04) in Maputo by the Bloco 4 Foundation, is...
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Local elections: Civil society sues police for human rights violations
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), a Mozambican non-governmental organization, has sued the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) in the northern province of Nampula for violating human rights during the local elections held on 11 October last year. The CDD statement accuses the PRM of having committed...
CDD: "Human rights situation deteriorated in the last quarter of 2023"
The Center for Democracy and Development (CDD), a Mozambican non-governmental organization, considers in its two reports that the human rights situation deteriorated in the last quarter of 2023, pointing to the Mozambican state, through the forces of law and order, as the main violator. "The fourth quarter was the scene of successive human rights violations (...)...
Local elections: Mozambican Network of Human Rights Defenders denounces killings of demonstrators
The Mozambican Network of Human Rights Defenders has denounced that at least 27 people have been killed by the police in the northern province of Nampula as part of the post-election violence. Adriano Nuvunga, president of the organization, denounced on Wednesday the killing by the police of nearly three dozen people in Nampula province, in northern Mozambique....
"Authorities didn't know how to deal with local elections," says Human Rights Commission
The illegal acts and irregularities detected during the sixth local elections on October 11 revealed the electoral bodies' weak capacity to deal with the process, according to the National Human Rights Commission. This conclusion results from the observation and analysis carried out on the local elections in the country, explained Luís Bitone, president of the Commission...
TotalEnergies promotes awareness-raising sessions on human rights in Mozambique
French oil company TotalEnergies, with the support of the Human Rights department at its headquarters, is promoting a series of awareness-raising sessions on human rights in Mozambique, focusing on the province of Cabo Delgado, where it is developing a natural gas exploration project. The company, through TotalEnergies EP...
On sexual orientation: Countries with human rights legislation are lacking in attitudes
COUNTRIES in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) with human rights legislation, specifically respect for sexual orientation, need to work on changing attitudes in their communities, MP Nontembeko Boyce said on Thursday in Kuazulu Natal, South Africa. Speaking to an audience made up of MPs from other countries...
PR wants massification of water in the light of human rights
The President of the Republic called on the managers of the water supply system to embrace the activity of supplying the precious liquid without looking only at profits, but also at the useful life of the infrastructure and, consequently, the benefit of the population, which is the reason for the investment. "We need to look at...
Bar Association denounces excessive pre-trial detention as a violation of human rights
The Mozambican Bar Association (OAM) is warning about the failure to comply with the time limit for pre-trial detention, considering that this constitutes a serious violation of the human rights of prisoners and aggravates the problem of overcrowding in Mozambican jails. The complaint was made by OAM's president, who believes that "failure to comply with the...
MEPs: "Fighting money laundering must not be done at the expense of human rights"
Deputies from the three benches of the Assembly of the Republic (AR) warned on Thursday that preventing and combating money laundering and terrorist financing should not be done at the expense of fundamental rights. These were the MPs from Frelimo, Renamo and the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), who were speaking during the approval...