In 2023, South Africa sold nearly R88 million worth of arms to the United Arab Emirates, to support a paramilitary group in Sudan
Tanzania is banking on its natural resources during the global transition to clean energy, but analysts warn there are dangers ahead
Sport can be a powerful force for good but in the wrong hands it can also be used help normalise hatred
As the demand for oil shrinks and prices collapse, Africa’s petro states — the likes of Angola, Nigeria, Egypt and Equatorial Guinea — will be left with massive holes in their budgets
International intervention needed in Tigray region of Ethiopia and Anglophone areas of Cameroon
Consumers must know whether the gold and diamonds they treasure have been tainted by human rights abuses
Bobi Wine and William Ruto set out to upend the political status quo in their respective countries
Kicked out of Lebanese homes and denied entry into the Ethiopian consulate, Beirut’s Ethiopian house helpers are being abandoned on the streets
Our government’s Covid-19 response and regulations must be subject to stringent monitoring to ensure womxn’s safety and security. This is why the Women’s Legal Centre will be an amicus curae in the case between the City of Cape Town and the SAHRC
Reporting on queer issues is always tough. But Tunisia was something else
The man who beat Danel Rooskrans to death is behind bars, but that doesn’t change the pain and rage her loved ones are left with.
The country’s media and NGOs can also play a role in restoring human rights in Turkey
Online tourism companies are adding to human rights’ violations by advertising attractions on illegally occupied land
An upcoming UN meeting on witchcraft and human rights is to focus on the rising attacks on Albinos and the trade of body parts in sub-Saharan African
The Gambia’s justice minister is to talk about human rights at the Pan-African Parliament.
The country has placed a ban on the deployment of workers to Saudi Arabia amid allegations of sexual abuse and ill-treatment.
Western nations won’t intervene lest they upset a strategic partnership or usher in another despot.
It is important that progressive public interest litigation be widely understood for what it is, a mechanism for holding power to account.
China is violating human rights at an intensity that is unprecedented in its recent history, a top watchdog group said on Thursday.
The Constitutional Court has ruled that domestic workers have the same rights as employees of liquidated business Pinnacle Point Group.
Human rights NGOs have released a report showing the impact of Uganda’s controversial law on the wellbeing of homosexual people in the country.
The latest arrests in Sri Lanka are part of a campaign to deter witnesses from giving evidence to a new investigative mechanism, writes Yasmin Sooka.
The Island of Impunity report cites witness accounts that army torture, sexual violence and enforced disappearance continue in part today.
If an appeal court ruling is applied to the letter, the SAPS should be going after Bashar al-Assad and George W Bush, writes Ziyad Motala.
President Jacob Zuma’s stance on local human rights abuses at the Commonwealth summit undermines SA’s fight for justice, writes Ruki Fernando.
Incendiary weapons are banned from use in war as they inflict indiscriminate damage, yet it appears Syrian forces have used them in the last year.
China has arrested an activist on a charge of subversion, says his brother and a rights group.
African human right’s groups need to ramp up their role in monitoring and preventing abuse.
Human Rights Watch reveals how child marriage in South Sudan exacerbates high maternal mortality rates and perpetuates violence against girls.
The Zimbabwe police are allegedly killing criminal suspects in custody, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has claimed.
Rights groups have voiced fears that Zimbabwean authorities would launch a crackdown on rights activists ahead of a referendum and the 2013 elections.
A shadowy military academy is being built in Zimbabwe by a Chinese contractor accused of meting out physical punishment, miserable conditions and pay.