{"id":22202,"date":"2023-02-17T15:10:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T15:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/human-rights-lawyer-nhlabatsieuropean-unioneu-funds-development-projectstaxes-benefit-royalty"},"modified":"2023-02-17T16:50:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T16:50:39","slug":"human-rights-lawyer-nhlabatsieuropean-unioneu-funds-development-projectstaxes-benefit-royalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/human-rights-lawyer-nhlabatsieuropean-unioneu-funds-development-projectstaxes-benefit-royalty","title":{"rendered":"HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER NHLABATSI:European Union(EU) funds development projects,taxes benefit royalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span><b>Sibusiso Nhlabatsi,a highly regarded human rights lawyer says the resolution by the European Parliament will ground eSwatini projects as the EU remains the country\u2019s major development partner.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The European Parliament passed a resolution this week urging the EU to consider suspending funding to eSwatini amid the killing of civilians including human rights defenders by King Mswati.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis resolution will ground social projects in the country. As you might be aware, the EU is funding almost everything that benefits the people, taxpayers money funds royal projects,\u201d said the human rights lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Alpheous Nxumalo,the Government Spokesperson had not responded at the time of compiling this report.<\/p>\n<p>Eswatini is under international pressure amid the killing of civilians, the pressure escalated after Mswati allegedly unleashed his mercenaries and security forces to assassinate human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\">Eswatini<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. Sibusiso Nhlabatsi,a highly regarded human rights lawyer says the resolution by the European Parliament will ground eSwatini projects as the EU remains the country\u2019s major development partner. The European Parliament passed a resolution this week urging the EU to consider suspending funding to eSwatini amid the killing of civilians including human rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":22201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12,242],"tags":[234,248,249],"class_list":["post-22202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eswatini","tag-eswatini"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER NHLABATSI:European Union(EU) funds development projects,taxes benefit royalty - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sibusiso 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