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A Geneva-based housing rights group, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), has urged Nigerian authorities to provide ‘adequate emergency shelter’ for thousands of people displaced by deadly violence in the central city of Jos.

"Those displaced as a result of the recent violence... must be provided with adequate emergency shelter while efforts begin to provide a permanent solution to their housing problems," says COHRE.

A prominent international human rights group has disputed Hamas' claim that it did not target civilians during last year's war against Israel, saying there was strong evidence the Islamic militant group intentionally aimed its rockets at Israeli towns.

The criticism from New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) drew fresh attention to Hamas' actions in the three-week war, during which about 1 400 Palestinians, most of them civilians and 13 Israelis were killed.

Afriforum youth says the rights of matriculants who have yet to receive their matric results were being violated.

Speaking in Pretoria after a handful of the class of 2008 students protested outside the Department of Education offices, Afriforum youth chairperson, Ernst Roets, described the delay of the matric results as an infringement of students’ rights.

The matriculants handed over a memorandum requesting the department to identify persons responsible for the delay in releasing the results and to take disciplinary steps against them.