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Abandoned by their employers, Ethiopian domestic workers are left stranded in Beirut

Africa Zecharias Zelalem - 7 Jun 2020

Kicked out of Lebanese homes and denied entry into the Ethiopian consulate, Beirut’s Ethiopian house helpers are being abandoned on the streets

The controversial Strandfontein shelter shows the importance of monitoring womxn’s rights during a crisis

Coronavirus Women’s Legal Centre - 20 May 2020

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

My hardest story: Reporting on being queer in Tunisia

Article Carl Collison - 28 Jan 2020

Reporting on queer issues is always tough. But Tunisia was something else

Killer’s life sentence gives family ‘a little peace’

Multimedia Malcolm Sekgothe - 9 Sep 2019

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.

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South Africa needs to take a position on the plight of the Turks under Erdoğan

Article Sello Ivan Phahle - 24 Mar 2019

The country’s media and NGOs can also play a role in restoring human rights in Turkey

Amnesty: Booking agents profit from war crimes

Article Staff Reporter - 31 Jan 2019

Online tourism companies are adding to human rights’ violations by advertising attractions on illegally occupied land

The killing of people with albinism is driven by myth and international inaction

Africa Staff Reporter - 20 Sep 2017

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

Doublespeak in country of the abused

Africa Staff Reporter - 2 May 2016

The Gambia's justice minister is to talk about human rights at the Pan-African Parliament.

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Uganda bans deployment of workers to Saudi Arabia

Africa Gloria Nakajubi - 3 Mar 2016

The country has placed a ban on the deployment of workers to Saudi Arabia amid allegations of sexual abuse and ill-treatment.

Allies silent on Djibouti human rights abuses

Africa Geoff Hill - 7 Jan 2016

Western nations won't intervene lest they upset a strategic partnership or usher in another despot.

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Governments’ clampdown on NGOs must end – Navi Pillay

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Jul 2015

It is important that progressive public interest litigation be widely understood for what it is, a mechanism for holding power to account.

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China unleashes ‘extraordinary assault on human rights’

Article Staff Reporter - 29 Jan 2015

China is violating human rights at an intensity that is unprecedented in its recent history, a top watchdog group said on Thursday.

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Concourt: Business ignores domestic workers’ rights

Article Chantelle Benjamin 1 - 19 Dec 2014

The Constitutional Court has ruled that domestic workers have the same rights as employees of liquidated business Pinnacle Point Group.

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Ugandan anti-gay law sparks ‘surge in human rights violations’ – report

Africa Sapa - 15 May 2014

Human rights NGOs have released a report showing the impact of Uganda's controversial law on the wellbeing of homosexual people in the country.

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Sri Lanka: Living in fear of the ‘white vans’

Analysis Staff Reporter - 31 Mar 2014

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.

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