Tag: Rights

Journalists have issued demands ahead of planned countrywide demonstrations against police brutality and curtailing of press freedom.  They are calling ...

Human Rights Watch called Thursday for targeted sanctions against Eritrea, accusing its government of rounding up thousands of people, including ...

Uganda said Wednesday it would not renew its mandate for the UN's rights office, a move criticized in a country ...

Three Kenyan police officers were on Friday given sentences ranging from 24 years in jail to the death penalty for ...

The United States called Wednesday for an impartial probe in Eswatini into the killing of a top opposition leader and ...

Oumar left home in Guinea five years ago in search of a better life in Europe, but today he inhabits ...

Plainclothes security officers in Tunisia detained a prominent critic of President Kais Saied in the early hours of Saturday after ...

The European Parliament on Thursday condemned what it described as a decline in press freedom in Morocco, saying it was ...

A prominent Kenyan LGBTQ campaigner whose body was found dumped in a metal box about two weeks ago was buried ...

A video showing soldiers hurling a corpse onto a pile of burning rubble in Mozambique's jihadist-hit north "gives a glimpse" ...

Kenyan police have arrested more suspects over the killing of LGBTQ activist Edwin Chiloba, whose mutilated body was found on ...

Kenyan police said Friday that they had arrested a suspect in the killing of an LGBTQ rights campaigner whose body ...

The government in Chad said Thursday that it had foiled an "attempted destabilization" plot by army officers and a prominent ...

Zambian rights activists Saturday hailed as a "huge milestone" a decision to scrap two British colonial-era laws: the death penalty ...

A Tunisian man appeared in court Monday in the latest hearing in a long-running case that could see him returned ...

World Cup organizers said Wednesday that an urgent investigation had been launched into the death of a Kenyan security guard ...

France's Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera wore a sweater with rainbow-colored sleeves to France's World Cup quarter-final in Qatar on Saturday ...

Lawyers in Chad have vowed to stop work during a mass trial, due to start Tuesday, of more than four ...

Kenya's new president, William Ruto, said he had dissolved a police unit accused of extrajudicial killings, in a move hailed by ...

A Guinean court trying suspects in a 2009 massacre on Monday threw out a bid by former dictator Moussa Dadis ...

Uganda's energy minister on Tuesday slammed the European Parliament for seeking to delay a massive and controversial East African oil ...

Once a symbol of the jihadist war in northeast Nigeria, the town of Bama today betrays the grinding nature of ...

Dozens of feminist activists demonstrated Wednesday in Morocco's capital, calling for legalized abortions after a teenage girl died following a ...

Countless Guineans have waited 13 years for the trial of former junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara and others held responsible ...

UN investigators said Monday they believed Ethiopia's government was behind ongoing crimes against humanity in Tigray and warned the resumption ...

The United States on Monday urged a credible investigation into the death of an Egyptian economist as it denounced certain ...

Unregulated online content has spread disinformation and propaganda that have amplified political divisions worldwide, fanned international tensions and even contributed ...

Ethiopia on Thursday failed to block the United Nations from funding an international committee that will investigate human rights violations ...

Uganda's government must stop using illegal detention centers as a weapon against dissidents and close the facilities, Human Rights Watch ...

Ugandan author and activist Norman Tumuhimbise and a female journalist have been charged with cyber-stalking the country's president, their lawyer ...