Human Rights Watch reveals how child marriage in South Sudan exacerbates high maternal mortality rates and perpetuates violence against girls.
The international organisation’s report has questioned South Africa’s commitment to constitutional rights and equality.
An NGO report reveals that Sudanese forces have carried out indiscriminate aerial bombings and violated international humanitarian law.
The government is reversing progress on human rights in Tunisia following last year’s Arab Spring revolution, Amnesty International has warned.
Former detainees have identified the locations, agencies, torture methods and commanders responsible for rights abuses in Syria to Human Rights Watch.
Institutional reform has been touted as a solution to reducing the number of pregnancy and birth related deaths.
Human Rights Watch has released a video calling on DRC President Joseph Kabila to arrest General Bosco Ntaganda and send him to face war crime charges.
As Syria emarks on a new peace plan, news has emerged that its forces summarily executed over 100 civilians and rebel fighters in the past few months.
South Africa has condemned the escalating violence in Syria and has urged all parties involved to seek a peaceful solution to the ongoing conflict.
Human Rights Watch says armed opposition groups in Syria have kidnapped, tortured and executed supporters of President Bashar al-Assad.
A lack of health service delivery to foreigners, which almost amounts to human rights abuses, costs South Africans far more than they realise.
Human Rights Watch claim new satellite imagery and eyewitness accounts reveal that the bombardment of Homs in Syria has caused 700 deaths.
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/ 21 February 2012
Human Rights Watch has released a report saying Somalia’s al-Qaeda-link al-Shabaab rebels have forced young children to fight alongside them.
Lobby groups want multinational companies to stand against a government that bends the rules.
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/ 27 January 2012
An Ethopian judge has handed down prison sentences to journalists and politicians under the controversial anti-terrorism laws.
Human Rights Watch have slated French police for allegedly singling out black and Arab men for random checks as part of a new crime fighting policy.
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/ 17 January 2012
Ethiopia has forced thousands of villagers from their land to make way for commercial farming developments, leaving people impoverished and hungry.
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/ 16 January 2012
Human Rights Watch has urged Egypt’s new Parliament to scrap laws dating from the Hosni Mubarak regime that curb freedoms and "shield" official abuse.
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/ 12 January 2012
Officials have said al-Shabaab attackers stormed a remote police camp in north-east Kenya, killing seven people and kidnapping three.
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/ 12 January 2012
Human Rights Watch says Kenyan security forces are abusing civilians and Somali refugees in the north-eastern part of the country bordering Somalia.
Human Rights Watch says DRC security forces have killed 24 people since President Joseph Kabila won a disputed presidential election.
A study by Interpol estimates that, in South Africa, a woman is raped every 17 seconds and one in four South African women suffers domestic violence.
The efficacy of a task team set up to address the issue of violence against lesbians and transgender men in South Africa has been questioned.
Human Rights Watch has revealed that between 20 000 and 40 000 children work in artisanal gold mines in Mali, Africa’s third-largest producer.
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/ 5 December 2011
Human Rights Watch says SA’s lesbians and transgender men in townships and rural areas live in constant fear of harassment and "corrective rapes".
Kimberley Process-approved diamonds from Chinese-Zimbabwean venture Anjin will be put on sale on Friday, despite criticism from Human Rights Watch.
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/ 5 November 2011
Indian officials say imports of gems from Zimbabwe, once banned as "blood diamonds", could begin within weeks.
Zimbabwe could earn billions of dollars selling diamonds from an area scarred by abuse after a crisis that left the "blood diamond" watchdog tattered.
The Kimberley Process has authorised the sale of diamonds from two mining sites in Marange, Zimbabwe where alleged rights violations took place.
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/ 9 September 2011
Twenty-one people have appeared in court in Angola, charged with public order offences, following a rare anti-government demonstration.
A report into the conditions of farmworkers in the Western Cape fruit and wine industries has revealed shocking details of human rights abuses.
How will a damning Human Rights Watch report into the treatment of workers affect the local wine industry? We speak to wine columnist <b>Tim James</b>