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Sudan accuses the UAE of supporting genocide in West Darfur by aiding the Rapid Support Forces. Photo: Reuters/Goran Tomasevic

SA’s arms exports to UAE, a state accused of violating Genocide Convention

In 2023, South Africa sold nearly R88 million worth of arms to the United Arab Emirates, to support a paramilitary group in Sudan

Energy demand: Tanzania’s transition minerals include an estimated 70-million tonnes of graphite ore (above), commonly used in electrodes for batteries and fuel cells. Photo supplied

Clean energy minerals: Tanzania’s dark side to ‘a new dawn’

Tanzania is banking on its natural resources during the global transition to clean energy, but analysts warn there are dangers ahead

“Didn’t the world support the boycott of apartheid South Africa?” (Photo by Jonathan C. Katzenellenbogen/Getty Images)

SA sport faces tough questions after Israel rugby debacle

Sport can be a powerful force for good but in the wrong hands it can also be used help normalise hatred

Petro states: What happens when 30% of your national budget disappears in a decade?

As the demand for oil shrinks and prices collapse, Africa’s petro states — the likes of Angola, Nigeria, Egypt and Equatorial Guinea — will be left with massive holes in their…

UN security council needs A3’s leadership on African crises

International intervention needed in Tigray region of Ethiopia and Anglophone areas of Cameroon

Artisanal gold mineworkers fill bags with ore at Manzou Farm, owned by Grace Mugabe, in 2018

Why jewellers need to vet their global supply chains

Consumers must know whether the gold and diamonds they treasure have been tainted by human rights abuses

A new generation: Uganda’s Bobi Wine (right) smiles as he is nominated as the president of his new political party. Photo: Sumy Sadurni/AFP

Populism faces test in Uganda and Kenya

Bobi Wine and William Ruto set out to upend the political status quo in their respective countries

03 June 2020, Lebanon, Hazmiyeh: An Ethiopian maid is seen as she camps near the Ethiopian Consulate in the Hazmiyeh town, south-east of Beirut after she was kicked out from her work. There are more than 100,000 Ethiopian domestic workers live in Lebanon most of them are women, lost their jobs due to the economical crisis that the country faces. Photo: Marwan Naamani/dpa (Photo by Marwan Naamani/picture alliance via Getty Images)

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

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

The Covid-19 Strandfontein facility. (David Harrison/M&G)

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

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…

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My hardest story: Reporting on being queer in Tunisia

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

The man who beat Danel Rooskrans to death is behind bars

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

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.

Why is South Africa not addressing the crimes against humanity committed by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an? (Getty Images)

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

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

In a new report, Destination: Occupation, the organisation documents how online booking companies are driving tourism to illegal Israeli settlements and contributing to their existence and expansion. (Issei Kato/Reuters)

Amnesty: Booking agents profit from war crimes

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

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has shown that it is possible to be a legend no matter how small your area of influence is.

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

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

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Doublespeak in country of the abused

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

Uganda bans deployment of workers to Saudi Arabia

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

Djibouti President Ismaïl Guelleh aims to stand for a fourth term. The strategic position of his country makes him immune to international criticism.

Allies silent on Djibouti human rights abuses

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

Governments’ clampdown on NGOs must end – Navi Pillay

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

Friends of human rights activist Cao Shunli outside the intensive care unit in Beijing on March 1 2014. Shunli died in detention.

China unleashes ‘extraordinary assault on human rights’

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

Employers and domestic workers can contribute a national domestic workers’ pension fund operated through mobile-based platforms for easy registration and tracking contributions. (File photo)

Concourt: Business ignores domestic workers’ rights

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