Human Rights Watch released a report on the violence that underprivileged, black lesbians and trans men face on a day to day basis.
An <em>M&G</em> investigation has found Burma’s ambassador to SA, Myint Naung may be a former brigadier general linked to serious human rights abuses.
A Chinese human rights lawyer came home after disappearing for five days, but another attorney vanished amid a tough crackdown on dissent.
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/ 8 February 2011
The UN Security Council on Monday raised new concerns over rapes and other attacks on women and children in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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/ 17 October 2009
A precedent has been set that threatens top lieutenants, writes Jason Moyo.
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/ 19 September 2009
The attacks on organisations investigating Israel’s Gaza offensive confirm that the Jewish state cannot tolerate reasonable criticism
Zimbabwe is suffering ”persistent and serious” human rights violations despite the formation of a unity government, Amnesty International says.
Guinea’s new military junta must rein in soldiers who have carried out armed robbery, extortion and rape, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
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.
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’s military junta angrily dismissed two recent US government reports critical of its human rights record as unfounded and politically motivated.
The Algerian interior minister on Monday denied allegations of human rights abuses contained in a United States State Department report.
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/ 24 February 2009
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday urged Syria to abolish its repressive security court, a ”kangaroo court” whose verdicts cannot be appealed.
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/ 11 February 2009
They avoid taking buses, make sure friends know their schedules, and rarely go out when it’s dark.
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/ 9 December 2008
Zimbabwe has fallen into chaos — and there seems no chance of salvation.
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/ 26 November 2008
The government of the DRC on Wednesday rejected a report by Human Rights Watch alleging it killed at least 500 suspected political opponents.
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/ 25 November 2008
The government of the DRC has killed ”at least 500” suspected political opponents in the last two years, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
Hundreds of thousands of the migrant workers who built Olympic venues and beautified the city have already been sent home.
Nosimilo Ndlovu and Vicky Hill report on a UN study on human rights
African civil society must make a clear stand on Zimbabwe. The crisis is not only affecting the people of Zimbabwe, but is a great concern for all.
It was only a matter of time following the recent round of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe before the world’s foreign ministers started harrumphing.
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela this week revealed the ANC had received large donations from Indonesia