• Nigerian women to march against rape | World news | guardian.co.uk
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/22/nigerian-women-march-against-rape

    Women in Nigeria are planning to march in protest at what they say is a hidden epidemic of rape and sexual violence in Africa’s most populous country.

    The issue has received rare public attention after the emergence of an online video in which a woman is apparently gang-raped and pleads with her assailants to kill her.

    This followed another recent incident in which it was alleged that a young woman assigned to a community to perform volunteer service had been raped by a traditional ruler.

    Local campaigners hope that a show of anger on the streets – possibly on 25 November, the International Day Against Violence Against Women – will force Nigeria’s leaders to end a conspiracy of silence.

    #femmes #violences_sexuelles

  • Will ’Baby Doc’ Duvalier ever face justice in Haiti? | World news | guardian.co.uk
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/22/baby-doc-duvalier-investigation-stalls

    Human rights activists and victims of Duvalier’s notorious 15-year regime had hoped for something else: justice. After decades of impunity they wanted Haiti’s former leader — a man accused of involvement in the murder and torture of thousands of opponents and of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from one of the poorest nations on earth — to finally be punished for his crimes.

    Yet eight months on from his dramatic homecoming, legal procedures against Duvalier appear to be stalling. Instead, the one-time playboy dictator, who took over from his father, Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, in 1971 at the age of just 19, is reportedly enjoying a cosy lifestyle in the city he once ruled with an iron fist.

    #Haïti #justice #dictature

  • Libyan rebels discover Gaddafi’s chemical weapons | World news | guardian.co.uk
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/22/libyan-rebels-gaddafis-chemical-weapons

    Libyan rebel forces claim to have discovered banned chemical weapons stockpiles in southern desert areas captured from Gaddafi loyalists in the last few days.

    Libya was supposed to have destroyed its entire stockpile of chemical weapons in early 2004 as part of a British-engineered rapprochement with the west. It also abandoned a rudimentary nuclear programme.

    But the international watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, had stated it believed that Libya had kept 9.5 tonnes of mustard gas at a secret location: it is that which appears to have now been captured and secured.

    In 2010 Libya destroyed nearly 15 tonnes of sulphur mustard, representing about half of its stockpile. It received an extension to eliminate the rest by 15 May. Twice-yearly inspections have found no evidence of Libya reviving the chemical weapons programme.

    #armes-chimiques #Libye