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    The terrific traffic in Sierra Leone

    Sierra Leone is dated to have been facilitated with the motor way for the colonial masters vehicles as well as the railway track, through which we were administered and exploited respectively since the 1940s. But since then, Sierra Leone capital has become an irony, or...

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  • The youths’ hands’ worth revolution project

    The youths’ hands’ worth revolution project

    HURRARC’S INTEGRATED NATIONAL YOUTH AGENCY MOTTO: THE RENAISSANCE (THE REBIRTH) OF A NATION Location: Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa Starting date: immediately after being funded Ending date: six months after being funded. Grant applied for: $ 25,000 u.s.dollar Expected outcomes: to acquire trained youths in...

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    Fatal and merciless august rain in Sierra Leone

    Reclaiming the Lion Mountain (Sierra Leone), from the destructive grip of the fatal and merciless August rainfall. August 2009 has been one of the most destructive months in the Sierra Leonean calendar ever since the country’s foundation See also the related video: Kroo Bay Flooding,...

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  • The recovered history of Sierra Leone on slavery and slave trade

    The recovered history of Sierra Leone on slavery and slave trade

    The joint research conducted by Hurrarc’ environmental directorate and the Njala University College of Sierra Leone on slavery and slave trade, Sierra Leone as a case study. The issue of sierra leones involvement into slavery and the atlantic slave trade is something that needs to...

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    Special Court for Sierra Leone convicted leaders of the Revolutionary United Front

    FREETOWN, 26 February 2009 (IRIN NEWS) The Special Court for Sierra Leone on 25 February convicted three former leaders of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), marking the first time a court has convicted on the charge of “forced marriage”. It also set a precedent by...

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    Sierra Leone civil war: trio guilty of war crimes

    An international tribunal has found three Sierra Leone rebels guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity RUF leaders Issa Sesay and Morris Kallon were convicted of 16 of the 18 charges, while Augustine Gbao, was found guilty on 14 of the counts. The Freetown...

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    Annual report on activities of Hurrarc for 2008

    The HURRARC was able to achieve a lot of goals in the year 2008, after returning home from the Republic of Guinea, where HURRARC had been operating as an advocacy group for the rights of the refugees in the Republic of Guinea-Conakry. For the effectiveness...

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  • The vicious agony for power and blood diamonds

    Book on Sierra Leone Civil War

    The vicious agony for power and blood diamonds A book written and illustrated by Sahr G.M.P. Fania Written out of the findings of the Hurrarc members and the patient and objective documentations of the gross human rights abuses and violations, or crimes against humanity committed...

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  • The issue of the Koidu Holdings and the Affected Property Owners Associations

    The issue of the Koidu Holdings and the Affected Property Owners Associations

    The issue of the Koidu Holdings and the Affected Property Owners Associations, (A.P.O.A), is still an issue that need that needs to be revisited again because, there is still injustice and the ongoing human rights violations and abuses that has been going on in Kono,...

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    Envisaged Horror

    Of owls and bats were no more; the night of the morning Became silent with spiteful horror sensed at far with shocks And fears greeted with silent moment The aura doomed with panics and pangs. Leaving in four apartments of long adjourning with rooms And...

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  • Dream of Prophesy

    Dream of Prophesy

    O great World of the World to me of a name in great history Barack Obama African-American a name in great history Of the World; the sad days of human activists of a non dying, Dream of prophesy for two scores live in history. A-r...

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    All are one Africans

    All are one Africans and none is none Oh racism! You defeated disgracing grace of history of yore, Still a modern threatening disgracing mystery of all misery. Still, you do not exist in Creation, but in colour’s psyche! So don’t therefore look upon I and...

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  • Our welcoming song to President Obama

    Our welcoming song to President Obama

    Our welcoming song, gratitude and road map to President Barack Obama (I) OH! OBAMA! THE TEARS YOU ARE SHEDDING FOR HUMANITY IS INDEED REAL AS RARE! BUT NEVER MIND OBAMA, THE INFINITY! THERE IS STILL THE AUDACITY OF HOPE TO BEAR! THAT ‘’WE CAN!’’!…. YES!...

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  • 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages on Un.org website. On December 10, 2008 HURRARC celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Universal...

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  • Human Rights Education Project

    Human Rights Education Project

    The main focus of the project is to propagate Human Rights Education among Sierra Leoneans. The aim of the project is to create the required awareness-raising about the fundamental rights and dignity of people. The objectives are to galvanize the energies, expertise and resources of...

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  • Kono Human Rights Information and Development Center

    Kono Human Rights Information and Development Center

    Project proposal for Hurrarc’s Human Rights Research, Tuitions and Development Center, for Kono district, Sierra Leone The source of the photo of the “Diamond miners in Kono District” is USAID.gov DOWNLOAD Kono Human Rights Information and Development Center Project PDF format 276 Kb Kono district...

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  • Flooding is imminent at Sierra Rutile

    Flooding is imminent at Sierra Rutile

    By Solomon Rogers (Human Rights Boss) The Executive Director of the Human Rights Respect Raising Awareness Campaigners (HURRARC) , Sahr GMP Fania has with a very heavy heart narrated to journalists at the Amnesty International office at Pademba road over the weekend that the situation...

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  • Female genital mutilation in Africa

    Female genital mutilation in Africa

    “As Money dominates the World, so Female Genital Mutilation dominates the African Woman and the Girl-Child” – Saul Paul The economics of female genital mutilation The “American journal of Nursing” states: “Circumcision is an important source of income for those involve in its performance, therefore...

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