August 09, 2022
Nigeria: Insecurity Grips Nation's Capital
Attacks, Threats by Multiple Groups Raise Serious Concerns Read more »
Mali: Rights Reforms Crucial for Civilian Rule
Ensure Free Speech, Fair Trials During 2-Year Transition Read more »
August 08, 2022
Central African Republic: ICC Issues Warrant for Central African Republic Rebel Leader
Seleka Commander Noureddine Adam Wanted for War Crimes Read more »
Africa: Saving Lives in Time of War
The alternative to war constrained by the laws of armed conflict, or international humanitarian law, is what is known as total war--war fought without any effort to minimize harm… Read more »
August 04, 2022
Africa: Countries Should Remove Barriers That Keep Young Mothers Out of School
Many African governments have made important progress to advance and protect girls' right to education. But tens of thousands of adolescent girls across Africa still face barriers… Read more »
August 02, 2022
Kenya: Police Impunity Raises Election Risk
Authorities Yet to Investigate Killings by Security Forces Linked to 2017 Voting Read more »
Kenya: Concerns Over Possible Violence if Presidential Poll is Disputed
In the August 9 general election, Kenyans will vote for members of county assemblies, county governors, members of the national assembly and senate, and the successor to President… Read more »
Nigeria: What Lay Behind the Brutal Killing of a Nigerian in Italy?
Investigation Should Consider Racist Motivation Read more »
August 01, 2022
Libya: EU's Drone Is Another Threat to Migrants and Refugees
Frontex Aerial Surveillance Facilitates Return to Abuse in Libya Read more »
July 29, 2022
Morocco: Morocco's Hidden Repression
Shrinking Space for Dissent, Independent Journalism Read more »
South Sudan: Adoption of the Outcome of the UN Universal Periodic Review
Mr President, Read more »
Libya: UN Rights Body Should Renew Fact-Finding Mission
Item 10 - Interactive Dialogue with the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya - HRC50 Read more »
July 28, 2022
Morocco: Morocco - 'Playbook' to Mask Worsening Repression
Surveillance, Smear Campaigns, Intimidation, Prison After Unfair Trial Read more »
May 26, 2021
Uganda: Uganda - Covid-19 Pandemic Fueling Child Labor
Meager Government Aid Leaves Children Working Long Hours for Little Pay Read more »
May 12, 2021
Cameroon: Transgender Women Given Five-Years in Prison
Release Trans Women, End Anti-LGBT Persecution Read more »
April 14, 2021
Cameroon: Wave of Arrests, Abuse Against LGBT People - Human Rights Watch
Repeal Law, Protect LGBT Rights Read more »
December 04, 2020
Uganda: How 'Sex Testing', Operation Affected Annet Negesa's Running Career
Annet Negesa, a middle-distance runner from Uganda, does not know when she first caught the attention of athletics officials, but the testing began in 2011. Read more »
August 05, 2019
Uganda: Street Children Rounded up in Kampala
"They took us at night, so we didn't know where we were being taken," 11-year-old Jonathan (not his real name) told me. Read more »
April 23, 2019
Mozambique: Jailed Mozambican Journalists Get Bail After 3 Months
Today, a judge in Mozambique's Pemba city court ruled that journalists Amade Abubacar and Germano Daniel Adriano be released on bail, three months after their arrest on groundless… Read more »
January 18, 2018
Kenya: Both Elections Marred by Human Rights Abuses - Report
On August 8, Kenya's electoral commission declared incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta winner for a second term, amid opposition and civil society claims of fraud. The elections… Read more »
June 15, 2017
Equatorial Guinea: How Equatorial Guinea Turned Corruption Into an Art Form
For the past two decades, Equatorial Guinea has been one of Africa's largest oil producers and on paper, it is a middle-income economy. Yet instead of spending the country's oil… Read more »
January 15, 2013
Eritrea: Mining Companies Warned Against Using Forced Labour
International mining firms rushing to invest in Eritrea's burgeoning minerals sector risk involvement in serious abuses unless they take strong preventive measures. The failure of… Read more »
January 16, 2012
Ethiopia: Forced Relocations Bring Hunger, Hardship
The Ethiopian government under its "villagization" program is forcibly relocating approximately 70,000 indigenous people from the western Gambella region to new villages that lack… Read more »
September 08, 2011
Libya: Secret Intelligence Documents Discovered
Human Rights Watch discovered in Tripoli tens of thousands of archived documents containing evidence of crimes - such as the US and UK governments' complicity in torture -… Read more »
July 02, 2007
Ethiopia: Crackdown in East Punishes Civilians
The Ethiopian military has forcibly displaced thousands of civilians in the country's eastern Somali region in recent weeks while escalating its campaign against a separatist… Read more »