United Nations Human Rights experts have urged the government to stop using the anti-terrorism law to curb freedom of expression and association following reports of arbitrary ... Read more »
South African Nobel peace prize winner Desmond Tutu has called for a worldwide end to child marriages on his four-day visit in Zambia. Read more »
Health workers and activists are demanding women be allowed access to medically safe abortions in cases such as rape, as illegal abortions are now one of the leading causes of ... Read more »
Rights groups have called on President Yahya Jammeh not to sign a new law which would increase the punishment for "aggravated homosexuality" to life in prison. Read more »
France has warned that the country is becoming a terrorist hub and called for international action to end the chaos. Read more »
Israeli authorities have unlawfully coerced almost 7,000 Eritrean and Sudanese nationals into returning to their home countries where they risk serious abuse, according to a Human ... Read more »
African Union peacekeepers in Somalia rape women seeking medicine and food on their bases and routinely pay displaced teenage girls for sex, Human Rights Watch has revealed in a ... Read more »
A U.S.$4.9 billion diamond mine will open on land previously reserved for the indigenous San people in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve despite government claims that there were ... Read more »
King Mswati III has taken a 19-year-old former beauty pageant contestant as his newest wife shortly after thousands of girls participated in the kingdom's annual Umhlanga or Reed ... Read more »
The African Union has granted sitting leaders immunity from prosecution for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity by the African Court of Justice and Human Rights. Read more »
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