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By Zainab Joaque

The Human Rights Committee on the eliminations of all forms of discrimination against women, CEDAW, has expressed regret in the reported lack of independence of the Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone (HRCSL).

Sierra Leone, the committee said, should take steps to strengthen de facto independence of the HRCSL and ensure that its recommendations were adequately taken into account by the state in line with the Paris Principles or the General Assembly resolution 48/134.

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By Zainab Joaque

A development Consultant has said that the Public Order Act of 1965 and related laws that criminalise free speechin Sierra Leone will continue to impede the work of civil society organisations, CSOs.

By Zainab Joaque

Executive director of Network Movement for Justice and Development, NMJD has told the opening of a two-daynational stakeholders’ conference to explore sustainable corporate strategy that they are “still in a transition”.

The meeting, yesterday, took place at the Holy Trinity Hall inthe eastern district headquarter town of Kenema where they consulted with stakeholders on short term planning to long term visioning the organization that would mapthe way forward after 25 years of development work.

By Crispina Cummings

Female members of parliament, MPs,yesterday met with partners to strategize for the ratification of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa or the Maputo Protocol.

Referred to as the caucus of female MPs, the women met partners like the Solidarity for African Women’s Right,SOAWR, New Partnership for Africa’s Development, Women’s Forum and three other like-minded groups.

Sierra Leone has attained all four primary convergence criteria for the West Africa Monetary Zone for the first time since the inception of the programme in 2001, accoriding to a release from the country's central bank.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie just back from Dakar

A one-day media training on investigating and reporting on statelessness has ended in the Senegalese capital, Dakar.

It brought together media practitioners from Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, The Gambia and Sierra Leone.

Giving an overview of the issue, the head of Statelessness Unit in the office of the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR described the issue as “a very important phenomenon in terms of magnitude”.

Africa’s highest court has reaffirmed the rights of journalists on the continent.

The African Court on Human and People’s Rights has made a seminal decision which "strongly re-affirms the obligation of countries to protect the rights of journalists to practice free from intimidation and harassment" according to Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).