Uganda: No Justice for Victims of Forced Disappearances in Uganda

Investigate Security Forces, Hold Perpetrators to Account Read more »

Guinea: Simandou Iron Ore Project Threatens Rights, Land, Water, Climate - HRW #AfricaClimateCrisis

Simandou Project Threatens Land, Water, Climate Read more »

Eritrea: 10 Years Behind Bars for Ex-Minister's Daughter

Immediately Free Ciham Ali Abdu and Others Unlawfully Held Read more »

Libya: ICC Reignites Hope for Long-Delayed Justice

Torture, Disappearances, Killings in War-Time Prisons Read more »

Ghana: Chaining People With Mental Health Conditions Persists in Ghana

Ghana's government has taken inadequate steps to end the chaining and inhumane treatment of people with real or perceived mental health conditions - psychosocial disabilities - in… Read more »

Africa: Qatar Can't Hide Its Abuses By Calling Criticism Racist

Migrant Workers from South Asia and Africa Deserve Compensation for Wage Theft, Injuries, and Death Read more »

Africa: FIFA President's 'I Feel Like a Migrant Worker' Speech Misleading

Football Industry, Fans Should Continue Demanding Worker Compensation Fund Read more »

Africa: Qatar - FIFA World Cup Opens Without Remedy for Migrants

'We Built Those Towers,' Say Migrant Workers Who Made Tournament Possible Read more »

Togo: Submission to the UN Committee On the Rights of the Child

94th Pre-session Read more »

Africa: FIFA/Qatar - Migrant Workers Call for Compensation for Abuses

Workers, Families Speak Out as World Cup Nears Read more »

Uganda: Uganda - Covid-19 Pandemic Fueling Child Labor

Meager Government Aid Leaves Children Working Long Hours for Little Pay Read more »

Cameroon: Transgender Women Given Five-Years in Prison

Release Trans Women, End Anti-LGBT Persecution Read more »

Cameroon: Wave of Arrests, Abuse Against LGBT People - Human Rights Watch

Repeal Law, Protect LGBT Rights Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Liberia: Ex-President Charles Taylor Goes on Trial

The trial beginning June 4 of former Liberian President Charles Taylor for war crimes committed during Sierra Leone's 11-year brutal armed conflict sends a strong signal that… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Questions and Answers on Charles Taylor's Trial Before the Special Court for Sierra Leone

1. Who is Charles Taylor? Read more »

Rwanda: Historic Ruling Expected for Former President And Seven Others

The Supreme Court of Rwanda is scheduled to rule January 17 on the bid by former president Pasteur Bizimungu and seven others to have their convictions on charges of having formed… Read more »