Investigations into Deliberate Aid Obstruction, Possible War Crimes Needed As global and regional leaders meet in Paris to spotlight Sudan and mark the one-year anniversary of the country’s brutal conflict between […]
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Action Undermines Fundamental Freedoms (Nairobi) – Mali’s transitional military government should immediately reverse its suspension of political parties and associations, Human Rights Watch said today. The suspension violates both Malian
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Implement Safe Schools Plan to Protect Schools, Children (Abuja) –Ten years after the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigerian authorities have failed to put in place and sustain
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Authorities Should Ensure Freedoms of Association, Assembly, and Expression On Saturday, Zambian police summoned a Catholic priest, Fr. Andrew Chewe Mukosa, for “interviews” at the Copperbelt Police Headquarters on April
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UN Inquiry Urgently Needed; End Impunity for Abusive Commanders Ethiopian armed forces summarily executed scores of civilians in Merawi, a town in the Amhara region in late January and February
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Amendments Could Weaken Restrictions on Child Marriage, FGM Somalia’s parliament should reject any proposed constitutional amendments that would weaken rights protections for children, Human Rights Watch said today. On March
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Stop Harassment, Ensure Independent Investigation into Maseko’s Killing On March 27, immigration officials at the Ngwenya Border post between South Africa and Eswatini stopped Tanele Maseko, widow of murdered human
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Investigations Needed Into Indiscriminate Drone Strikes, Summary Killings Malian armed forces and Wagner Group foreign fighters unlawfully killed and summarily executed several dozen civilians in counterinsurgency operations in Mali’s central
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Craig Wilkinson, CEO and Founder of Father A Nation “Countless human rights violations are rooted in toxic and wounded masculinity, its time to man-up and realise human rights for all!’
Authorities Should Quash Stanis Bujakera’s Conviction This week, a court in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, convicted the prominent journalist Stanis Bujakera and sentenced him to six months in prison
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