«Inexplicable poverty»
Anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International rated Angola one of the 10 most corrupt countries in the world in 2005, noting that like many countries with oil resources it faces "inexplicable poverty and deprivation".
«The main institution in the country is corruption»
Each year, about US$1 billion of Angola?s oil revenues, reportedly, were disappearing.
Angola: Displaced Still Suffering
Three Years after Civil War, Little Progress for Returnees
Three years after the end of Angola?s brutal civil war, the Angolan government is failing to care for the country?s huge population of returning displaced persons, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
Coming Home
Return and Reintegration in Angola
This 39-page report documents how most families have returned to locations that still lack minimal social services, such as health care and education, let alone employment. Elderly and disabled persons, widows and female-headed households experience the worst shortfalls in government assistance, particularly in rural areas.
Concerned at recent development in Cabinda and Oromia, and alarmed by rising levels of violence, IFPRERLOM calls upon the Commission on Human Rights:
to condemn the use of lethal force by security forces of the government;
to ensure that all extra-judicial acts of killings be investigated thoroughly and impartially
by an independent international body in accordance with international standards;
to put pressure on the government of Ethiopia and Angola to stop ongoing human rights violations; and
to request standing invitations of the Commissions thematic mandates to visit the regions in question.
