Violations of human rights in Madagascar

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
23rd Session

Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

June 2013

Since independence in 1960, political life in Madagascar has been disrupted by several attempted coups. On 17 March 2009, the then mayor of the capital, Andry Rajoelina (1974), took power by force, plunging the country into an endless political crisis. Although the African Union tried to find a consensual and inclusive political agreement to end the crisis, a transitional regime, strongly dominated by the coup leaders and their allies, was established in 2010.

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