Burkina Faso: Free Human Rights Defender Daouda Diallo and End Discriminatory Conscription of Independent Voices

More than fifty days since Dr Daouda Diallo, Secretary-General of the Collective Against Impunity and Community Stigmatization (CISC), was forcibly disappeared, Amnesty… Read more »

Burkina Faso: Armed Groups Committing War Crimes in Besieged Localities

Ansaroul Islam and other armed groups are enforcing brutal sieges in localities across Burkina Faso committing war crimes and human rights abuses, including killings of civilians,… Read more »

Burkina Faso: Zongo Case - Justice for the Death of a Burkinabe Journalist

On 13 December 1998, Norbert Zongo, an investigative journalist in Burkina, his two collaborators and his younger brother, were assassinated. Their bodies were found charred in the… Read more »

Burkina Faso: No Backtrack On Human Rights! Amnesty International : Submission to the 44th Session of the Upr Working Group

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review of Burkina Faso on 6 November 2023. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made… Read more »

Burkina Faso: Perpetrators of Nouna Killings Must Face Justice

According to witnesses interviewed by Amnesty International, auxiliary forces to the government of Burkina Faso killed dozens of civilians in Nouna, in Kossi province, on 30… Read more »