The Gambia Journal

We want to take this opportunity to introduce to you The Gambia Journal, is a CIVIC EDUCATION web casting Organization based in Silver Spring, Maryland. The Gambia Journal has no political affiliation with any political organization and would, as a matter of strict principle, refuse to be used by any person or group as a means to achieving politica... l ends. The Gambia Journal will strive in educating, promoting, protecting and defending human rights as enshrined in the universal declaration of human rights, International covenant on civil and political rights, the International covenant on economic, social and cultural rights, convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, the convention on the right of the child, the convention against torture, the African charter on human and peoples right, and all other human rights convention and treaties. We shall campaign for the prevention of torture, the abolition of the death penalty, disappearances, extra judicial killings, unlawful detention and human rights abuses where and whenever they occur. We shall endeavor to expose all forms of human rights abuses in the Gambia, Africa and the world at large. Such campaigns shall take the form of human rights education programs, seminars, public talk lectures, workshops, lobbying, media briefings and appeal letter writings. As events unfold in The Gambia, The Gambia Journal would seek to uphold and report the truth without any fear or favors, knowing that only the truth can lead us to eventual redemption as a nation. Hence, the need for accurate and meticulous recording, reporting and documentation of events as they overtake each other in this critical phase of our history. We hope this record of our contemporary history will serve as a reference source for posterity, concerned Gambians and friends of the country, scholars and researchers. They all will now find an ever-growing wealth of accurate information, objectively commented upon and professionally presented in the archives of the Gambia ...Read More