Senegal

West African Floods Bring Back the Same Old Problems

September 12, 2012 This story was written under the auspices of the TRF/NORAD Journalism Training project. Amid the commotion in the flooded Saga district of Niger’s capital Niamey, on the left bank of the Niger river, Issa Ali and his two wives are scrambling about in the water. With their four children already safe from […]

Senegal’s statement on the report “Women and Adequate Housing”

On March 6th, 2012, the UN special rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik, presented at the 19th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva, the reports concerning her 2011 missions to Argentina and Algeria, as well as her thematic report on women and their right to adequate housing. After this […]