Chinese labour practices haunt Zim factory workers

A shadowy military academy is being built in Zimbabwe by a Chinese contractor accused of meting out physical punishment, miserable conditions and pay.

Burma ambassador's questionable past

An M&G investigation has found Burma's ambassador to SA, Myint Naung may be a former brigadier general linked to serious human rights abuses.

China frees rights lawyer but another disappears

A Chinese human rights lawyer came home after disappearing for five days, but another attorney vanished amid a tough crackdown on dissent.

UN council signals new alarm over DRC rapes

The UN Security Council on Monday raised new concerns over rapes and other attacks on women and children in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Zim rights violations are 'persistent and serious'

Zimbabwe is suffering "persistent and serious" human rights violations despite the formation of a unity government, Amnesty International says.

Guinean soldiers accused of human rights abuses

Guinea's new military junta must rein in soldiers who have carried out armed robbery, extortion and rape, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.

Rights group documents mass rapes, killings in DRC

At least 90 women have been raped and 180 villagers killed over the past two months in the volatile eastern DRC, a rights group said on Thursday.

Kenyan police abuse Somali refugees, claims rights group

Hundreds of thousands of Somalis refugees in Kenya suffer extortion and abuse by corrupt and violent police, a human rights watchdog said on Monday.

Burma dismisses US rights report as 'inaccurate'

Burma's military junta angrily dismissed two recent US government reports critical of its human rights record as unfounded and politically motivated.

Sweep your own doorstep, Algerian minister tells US

The Algerian interior minister on Monday denied allegations of human rights abuses contained in a United States State Department report.

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