The Mail & Guardian sits down with Salil Shetty to discuss the country’s abuses and the new direction Amnesty International is taking.
As Zambia celebrates 50 years of freedom, its old laws against gays and lesbians are tightened.
June 26 is the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. There should be no more police torture in South Africa, yet it continues.
People who are taught about human rights do not necessarily apply what they’ve learned in practice, writes Kayum Ahmed.
Trying to lecture students on respecting people’s rights will only get you so far. They need experiential human rights education.
In a letter to the UN, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, representing human rights activists, has appealed for a commission of inquiry in Sri Lanka.
Mine owners face an ethical and legal nightmare in trying to deal with illegal shafts.
The SAHRC has called on all South Africans to heed Madiba’s example on International Human Rights Day, the day of his memorial service.
Steven M Wise is campaigning for chimps’ right to seek freedom from unlawful detention on the grounds that they are essentially people.
China has arrested an activist on a charge of subversion, says his brother and a rights group.
Boycotting Sri Lanka cricket over a disagreeable regime is not the answer, and South Africa should do more than that to engage with the issues.
A Senegalese activist blames poverty and underdevelopment for Africa’s instability.
Angy Peter and Issac Mbadu’s fears of early morning raids and arrests are examples of why an inquiry into policing in Khayelitsha is necessary.
Human rights in their broad and interdependent sense must be the lodestar of both development and security policy.
"We remain deeply concerned about the current state of human rights in South Africa," Human Rights Commission spokesperson Isaac Mangena has said.
President Jacob Zuma must move beyond party politics and protect citizens from police brutality and abuse of power, says DA leader Helen Zille.
The top priority is bringing an end to the slaughter. But we must ensure that, after Assad, revenge does not lead to abuses, writes Kenneth Roth.
The international organisation’s report has questioned South Africa’s commitment to constitutional rights and equality.
Two siblings have been turned away from Eben Donges High School in Kraaifontein for wearing their traditional Muslim head coverings.
Zimbabwe’s police have arrested and charged a director of a human rights organisation for alleged election fraud.
The chairman of Zimbabwe’s human rights commission, appointed to help curb rights violations, has quit citing inhibiting laws and lack of resources.
President Jacob Zuma has told the 67th sitting of the United Nations’s General Assembly in New York that women’s rights are human rights.
South Africa’s arms exports show that human rights are not a priority when the government takes decisions on trade policy, according to arms experts.
George Bizos, who turns 84 in November, has intimate knowledge of the extremes written into the country’s violent past and present.
Observers believe China was the aim of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s swipe at irresponsible resource seekers. Charles Molele reports.
Zimbabwe’s justice minister has rejected allegations that the country has state-sponsored violence, and vowed not to recognise gay rights.
A report has shown that some of the basic human rights enshrined in the Constitution are still contested in communities across South Africa.
As a society in transition, SA presents a contradictory picture in terms of the rights of lesbian and gay persons writes Melanie Judge & Jayne Arnott
A highly anticipated visit by human rights commissioner, Navi Pillay, to Zimbabwe could have some welcome consequences, writes Webster Zambara.
Chen Guangcheng — one of China’s best-known human rights icons — was prepared to spend years in the US embassy as he weighed his next move.
Now more than ever civil society organisations need to pull together to ensure that efficient collaboration assists in achieving justice.
While President Zuma delivered his Human Rights Day speech in Soweto, attendees told the M&G that human rights aren’t a reality for many South Africans.