Algeria is said to a democratic and popular republic, it is a sovereign country.It is located between Tunisia (east), Libya (east) and Morocco (west).This country is also known for its past under Ottoman and French rule.
Here some information about Algeria:
Capital: Algiers
Population: 36 57 830
Minorities: Arabic, Berber and French
President: Abdelaziz Boutefika
Prime Minister: Ahmed Ouyahia
Independence: July 5th 1962
Algeria continued to experience widespread human rights violations in 2010.
The state controls all the media and nobody has the right to criticize in public the government policies and the military action. That’s why the public sector is really limited unlike the private newspapers. Journalists and independent media are often targeted and insulting because of their publications. They are sometimes sentenced to hard sentences (prison for example). There no real freedom of speech in Algeria.
The events of the 1990’s (Algerian civil war) play an important role in the evolution on the country, more precisely about terrorism. Al Qaeda still attacks the military forces and the police and it keeps getting worse. So the country is torn by this situation. A state of emergency were imposed in 1992 and renewed by a decree in 1993 (it created a backdrop for widespread restrictions on freedom of expression and association). The authorities justify the measure as necessary to fight terrorism. The security forces and armed groups continued to enjoy large impunity for atrocities committed during the violent internal conflict of the 1990s. The state offered compensation to families of persons forcibly disappeared in the 1990s, but failed to provide answers about their fate. Organizations representing the families of the "disappeared" have criticized the state's failure to provide a detailed account of the fate of their missing relatives. So there is a particular issue about the impunity but also for the families.
A law adopted in 2001 indefinitely bans all demonstrations in Algiers. The countrywide state of emergency in effect since 1992 allows Interior Ministry officials to ban any demonstration, to avoid public disturbance and to ensure tranquility.
Algeria still combats for human rights and against terrorism. Some points are important to look at. First, the country recognizes publically torture as real crime since 2004.
Algeria and the European Union set an association agreement in 2005 which provides Algeria (€172 million aid during for 2011-2013). In 2009, both agreed to create an Association Council on "Political Dialogue, Security and Human Rights."
There are many organizations which tend to play an important role to preserve and ensure Human Rights. For example there is the League for the Defense of Human Rights.
LADDH is a independent NGO and its main missions are to promote and ensure Human Rights and have many partnerships with other national and international NGO’s.
.(Other examples of NGO’s: Algeria Watch International, Hijra International, World Algerian Coaltion)
Now Algeria is one of the actors of the “Human rights” revolution, which takes in North Africa and the Middle East. There is a domino effect that takes its source in Tunisia and which tends to affect the Yemen and other border countries.
SOURCES:
-The website of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights/La Ligue algérienne pour la défense des droits humains (LADDH):
- http://www.algerie-laddh.org
Amnesty International:- http://www.amnesty.fr
Website about Algeria, created by a Canadian university: - http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/afrique/algerie.htm
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