The UN has launched a global campaign to end statelessness within ten years. I confidently predict that the result of this campaign will be to ''increase'' statelessness by many ... Read more »
The international watchdog Human Rights Watch says a number of high-profile rights defenders have fled the country in anticipation of the government's keenness to implement the ... Read more »
Did the Paralympic champion's white privilege save him from a harsher sentence? The State's decision to appeal the case will cast his future into further doubt, though it is ... Read more »
Othman Atiq, popularly known as Mr Crazy, is set to be released after completing a three-month sentence in a juvenile detention. Read more »
The Chadian government has refused to transfer two alleged accomplices of former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré to the special court in Senegal trying crimes ... Read more »
The United Kingdom has revoked the visa for Jean-Pierre Bemba's lawyer Jean-Jacques Mangenda Kabongo, who is in detention at the International Criminal Court. Read more »
Independent lawyers appointed to help a commission set up to investigate the worst police killings since the notorious Sharpeville massacre have accused the police of fabricating ... Read more »
Zimbabwe media groups have accused First Lady Grace Mugabe of threatening journalists during a series of rallies. Read more »
A UN human rights expert on migrants has urged British authorities to reconsider a decision not to support search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea. Read more »
Development sector debates need to move away from a focus on simply getting disabled children into school, an expert says. Read more »
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