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Excessive force: Men protest while pulling a cart carrying the body of Vitallis Ochilo Owino in the Mathare slums of Nairobi on May 4. He was allegedly beaten to death by police officers while walking in the streets after curfew hours imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo: Luis Tato/AFP)
AIDS

Put human rights at the centre of our battle against Covid-19

Government and civil society must develop a rights-based response to Covid-19, because epidemics are won by strengthening rights, not trampling on them

  • Antonio Zappulla
  • Peter Sands
5 min read
More than 50 women accuse aid workers in the DRC of sexual exploitation and abuse, according to an investigation by The New Humanitarian and Thomson Reuters Foundation.
ALIMA

Women accuse aid workers of sexual abuse during the DRC’s Ebola crisis

More than 50 women have accused Ebola aid workers from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and leading nongovernmental organisations of sexual exploitation and abuse in the…

  • Robert Flummerfelt
  • Nellie Peyton
12 min read