Pupils at Filadelfia Secondary School have reported neglect and sexual harassment, but the provincial department has failed to intervene
Violations of people’s human rights continue unabated in the country
A drone strike in Ethiopia’s Amhara region left 30 civilians dead. The Continent has pinpointed the location, marking a crucial step towards accountability
The report highlights Latin America as the deadliest region, particularly Colombia, which saw a record number of killings
The East African Community has sent a regional force to prevent the situation from worsening
High economic cost of gender-based violence should further motivate governments to take action
Opportunities abound for tech to improve safety and assist victims.
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Despite whistleblowers, the department of labour has not yet helped undocumented migrants at a Hout Bay animal shelter
Feminist activist groups still demand justice for human-right violations against women living with HIV
Telecommunications and surveillance companies must stop aiding the government’s human rights violations and encroachment on freedoms
In a year defined by Covid-19, human rights violations, including massacres of civilians and crackdowns on opposition parties, have plagued these regions
Gervais Ndirakobuca is under international sanctions for human rights violations — abductions, disappearances, murder, turture — when people protested against the president seeking a third term
The conflation of human rights violations and a pandemic leave the most vulnerable marginalised. Equitable and democratic societies are needed to fight against this
According to the Commission for Gender Equality’s latest report, this practice is a direct attack on HIV-positive women
Physical and psychological violence will continue unless we self-reflect on our apartheid scars
‘Open letter’ reveals the Orwellian depths to which the radical anti-Israel lobby is willing to descend in order to stand reality on its head
At risk are other economies in the region and alternatives are being sought to allow trade.
The detention of Wang Yu was the opening salvo in an unprecedented crackdown on China’s human rights lawyers.
It is a scandal that South Africa is doing nothing to rein in Swaziland’s King Mswati and his despotic lieutenants.
Human Rights Watch has issued a "warning" to the South African government, that human rights are "taking a turn for the worst" in the country.
Zimbabwean police have returned photos of human rights violations under President Robert Mugabe to a gallery they had raided 24 hours earlier.
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/ 12 January 2009
A divided United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday adopted a resolution condemning Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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/ 13 December 2008
Jason Moyo reports on how the Mugabe regime is using abduction as a means of political struggle.
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/ 9 September 2008
With a population of more than 50-million, the country has become the world’s biggest prison camp. Pressure is building on the UN to act.
”They hunt the opposition. They said they ate human liver and drank urine during the war and so they were prepared for war again.”
The Burma military junta’s arrest of a popular comedian campaigning for victims of Cyclone Nargis is part of continuing serious human rights violations in the country, a United Nations investigator said on Monday.