The past week we celebrated the “Old Location Uprising” which coincides with Human Rights on 10 December. On Monday evening there was a discussion on NBC television that was discussing the topic and specifically what was referred to as second and third generation rights. It is important for people to understand these rights and the institutions that are responsible for protection their rights.

Human rights are traditionally divided into two main groups, namely –
• civil and political rights, and
• economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights (also referred to as second and third… ( Read on! )

(IMAGE 1: A frame from "Tintin in the Congo")

(PHOTO 2: Belgium-based Congolese Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, anti-Tintin
in the Congo crusader)

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I have time and again denounced on this blog the frivolous crusade
against "Tintin in the Congo" launched about 4 years ago by the
fame-seeking mercurial Congolese student Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo.

Mondondo had filed a lawsuit against the Tintin series Belgian
publisher Casteman and SA Moulinsart, the company holding the
exclusive rights of the author known as Hergé (Rémi Georges).

Soon enough, the French government-funded… ( Read on! )