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2025 CONVENTION ON ELIMINATING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS

African values under threat: African Commission must defend them

US anti-rights groups are working against inclusivity, non-racism and decolonisation

  • Khanyo Farise
5 min read
Paramedics tend to a person injured by police during protests in Mbabane in 2021 as security forces cracked down on pro-democracy protests in Africa’s last absolute monarchy. Photo: AFP
ABSOLUTE MONARCHY

eSwatini’s 20 years of constitutionalism characterised by a crackdown on freedom of expression

The country’s revival of the Sedition and Subversion Act is a revival of a colonial law that stifles human rights.

  • Melusi Simelane
8 min read
Some countries such as Tanzania still retain the death penalty
ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY

Abolish the death penalty in Africa

The African Court ruling on Tanzania’s mandatory death penalty ruled that sentencing someone to death by hanging violates Article 5 of the African Charte

  • Melusi Simelane
5 min read
Repressive: At least 80 people were injured in Eswatini on 20 October 20 when security forces cracked down on pro-democracy protests in the kingdom. (AFP/Getty Images)
AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES RIGHTS

Little justice for gender-based violence cases in Eswatini

A report details how medical and legal shortages and discrimination curtails survivors’ rights

  • Shaazia Ebrahim
4 min read
Regional human rights bodies such as the African Court issue judgments that support fundamental freedoms. Often these decisions overrule rulings made by governments.
ACHPR

Why are African countries undermining the rights bodies they created?

African states are starting to withdraw from rights bodies when rulings go against them

  • David Kode
5 min read
AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES RIGHTS

UN security council needs A3’s leadership on African crises

International intervention needed in Tigray region of Ethiopia and Anglophone areas of Cameroon

  • Carine Kaneza Nantulya
  • Louis Charbonneau
4 min read
Former apartheid security police officer João Rodrigues, who was charged with the murder of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol in 1971, died at his home on Monday. (Anthony Schultz/M&G)
AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES RIGHTS

João Rodrigues, apartheid-era crimes and the question of a blanket amnesty

The former Security Branch officer is asking the SCA for a permanent stay of appeal in the prosecution of the murder of Ahmed Timol in 1971

  • Atilla Kisla
6 min read
The Covid-19 outbreak should not be used as an occasion to diminish human rights, but as an opportunity to reaffirm them. (Alex McBride/AFP)
AFRICA

Africa’s Covid-19 response should focus on people’s needs — and rights

The Covid-19 outbreak should not be used as an occasion to diminish human rights, but as an opportunity to reaffirm them

  • Carine Kaneza Nantulya
  • Dewa Mavhinga
5 min read