Human rights - Page 2
The African Union defies the International Criminal Court…
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) together with its Sudanese member organizations, the African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) and the...
Global leaders call for end to homophobia and human rights abuses
In response to skyrocketing HIV prevalence rates among gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) around the world, global health...
Hundreds made homeless by mass forced eviction in Kenya
Amnesty International has called on the Kenyan authorities to halt the forced evictions in a Nairobi settlement that have left hundreds of families homeless...
Africans seek to halt abuse of disabled persons
Despite treaties, charity and political advocacy, people with disabilities in Africa still struggle to meet their basic needs and their basic rights. Social injustice...
Zimbabwe: Rwandans refuse repatriation over extermination fears
Rwanda refugees resident in Zimbabwe are resisting moves to be repatriated to their homeland claiming that they would be killed once they set foot...
Mugabe, Zenawi, Bashir, Afwerki, Mubarak, Biya… World’s worst despots list
A United States based think tank, Foreign Policy/Fund for Peace has ranked President Mugabe as the second worse despots in the world after...
Giving Africa’s displaced people a new lease of life
It was a departure they never had time to prepare for. Seeking to escape death amidst fighting between the Senegalese army and rebels in...
Exhibition of forgotten refugees of the Sahara marks Refugee Week
A photographic exhibition marking Refugee Week opened this week in Brighton with images of refugees from one of the world's longest and most forgotten...
Partnership Africa Canada (PAC) condemns violence in Zimbabwe’s diamond fields
A new PAC report about Zimbabwe's contested diamond fields is about many things: smuggling and frontier hucksterism; a scramble fuelled by raw economic desperation...
Rwanda: Persecution of independent newspapers extended to online versions
Reporters Without Borders reiterates its concern about the harassment of independent newspapers in Rwanda after learning that access to the Umuvugizi news website has...
Cameroon: Authorities urged to publish findings of enquiry into journalist’s death in prison
Reporters Without Borders regrets the Cameroonian government's foot-dragging in the investigation into journalist ?Bibi? Ngota Ngota's death in Yaoundé's Kodengui prison on 22 April....
Sudan Rights Defenders: UN Rights Body Must Not Abandon Sudan
Our organisations regret that the Human Rights Council has decided to defer its discussion of the human rights situation in Sudan to its fifteenth...
Albinos seek electoral representation in Uganda
Albinos in Uganda want a representation in parliament to safeguard against witch-doctors who more often than not kill them to perform ritual sacrifices.
They have...
DR Congo: Police suspected of killing top human rights activist
Human rights groups have linked the death of Congo’s top human rights activist to the Congolese police. The Voice for the Voiceless rights group...
Malawi could lose millions in aid after gay verdict
Malawi risks forfeiting its annual aid donations from the United Kingdom and other western partners if it does not reverse the court verdict of...
Ethiopia: Government Repression Undermines Poll
Ethiopian government and ruling party officials intimidated voters and unlawfully restricted the media ahead of the May 23, 2010 parliamentary elections, Human Rights Watch...
Malawi gay sentence attracts international condemnation
Malawi has attracted international criticism after a court slapped a black gay couple with a 14 year jail sentence with hard labour.
The two men,...
Ethiopia rejects U.S. claims as Ambassador assumes office
After months of strong statements between Addis Ababa and Washington, over Ethiopia’s decision to jam Voice of America’s Amharic service, a new U.S Ambassador...
Call for Action to Thwart Bid by Libya, and other notorious human rights abusers, to join UN Human Rights Council
Two UN watchdog organizations today urged the United Nations General Assembly to reject five candidates for the United Nations Human Rights Council- Libya, as...
Cameroon” Health of three journalists deteriorating in Kondengui prison
Reporters Without Borders today voiced its fears for the health of three editors who have been held in Kondengui jail in Yaoundé since 10...
Somalia: International Group Should Press All Sides to End Abuses
Participants to this week's international meeting on Somalia should press for an immediate end to abuses against civilians by Somalia's transitional government, African Union...
Rwanda: Political oppression or insurance of civil stability
US-based Human Rights Watch has accused Rwanda’s president Paul Kagame of attacking and intimidating his critics in the run-up to Augusts’ presidential election, but...
Somalia: Al-Shabab must immediately free human rights activist
The Somali armed opposition group al-Shabab must immediately free a human rights defender it captured last week and stop its relentless attacks on other...
Western Saharan hunger strikers and Morocco’s human rights violations
Worldwide appeals have been launched in support of thirty-six Saharawi hunger strikers reaching their 29th day of protests. The wave of hunger strikes, which...
Western Sahara: Campaigners call for of release of hunger strikers after 1 month without food
A human rights campaigner from Western Sahara who spoke out against
the Moroccan occupation of his country on BBC documentary is among six
hunger strikers in...
A hunger for justice in Western Sahara
Anyone who saw the episode of the BBC documentary Tropic of Cancer last month in which journalist Simon Reeve travelled across Western Sahara would...
Zimbabwe’s list of shame and Oskar Schindler’s list
"He who saves the life of one man, saves the world entire", so says Ben Kingsley acting as Itzhak Stern in Steven Spielberg’s award-winning...
ICC Prosecutor is given authorisation to open an investigation in Kenya
The FIDH and its member organisation, the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), welcome the decision rendered yesterday by the judges of Pre-Trial Chamber II...
African NGOs call for Competitive Elections for the UN Human Rights Council
A group of African NGOs from throughout the continent today urged African governments to support competition among African states for seats on the United...
Ethiopia: Repression Rising Ahead of May Elections
Human Rights Watch is pleased to invite you to the launch of a new report, "'One Hundred Ways of Putting Pressure': Violations of...