Egypt, Mauritania Invoked UNGA Resoluton 377 to Address Gaza Genocide [press release]
Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania to the United Nations
The Arab Republic of Egypt and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, in our respective capacities as Chair of the Arab Group and Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Group at… Read more »
Ghana's Anti-LGBT Push Will Harm Its Democracy [guest column]
allAfrica
Events in recent months have raised fear among Ghana’s human rights activists, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, and allies. Read more »
Koijee Makes US Sanctions List
New Dawn
The U.S. Government has sanctioned Monrovia Mayor and Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) Secretary General Jefferson Koijee for serious human rights abuse and corruption,… Read more »
Conflict, Crisis Show Barriers to Health for World's Poor [guest column]
allAfrica
Seventy-five years ago, in the ashes of World War Two and the unprecedented human suffering it caused, nations laid out a way to build "the foundation of freedom, justice and peace… Read more »
Rwanda is Safe for Migrants - UK Investor
New Times
The Rwanda-UK migration treaty which comes to strengthen the existing Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP) is a ''sensible move'' and a commitment by the Rwandan… Read more »
Africa's Negotiators Urged to Leverage On African Science At COP28 High Table #AfricaClimateHope
IPS
African scientists and researchers are concerned that the data shows that the continent is being cornered by the spiraling effects of climate change, that the real impact of… Read more »
Arrests, Assaults, Ballot Box Stuffing and Low Turnout in Voting This Morning
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
A massive police presence, some arrests and assaults, an attempt to introduce pre-voted ballot papers, and a very low turnout marked the first hours of the repeat elections this… Read more »
Celebrating 75 Years of Human Rights [analysis]
Africa Renewal
African youth reshaping human rights on the on the continent Read more »
ICRC Deplores Deliberate and Deadly Attack on its Humanitarian Convoy in Khartoum [press release]
ICRC
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is shocked and appalled by a deliberate attack on its humanitarian convoy in Khartoum on Sunday. Read more »
U.S. Treasury Sanctions People in 9 Countries for Human Rights Abuses
VOA
The U.S. Treasury's 's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Friday announced sanctions against 20 individuals in nine countries for human rights abuses. Read more »
The UK Can't Legislate Away Rwanda's Rights Record [opinion]
HRW
Government Pushes Ahead with Plan despite Supreme Court Ruling and Known Abuses Read more »
Liberian Mayor Jefferson Koijee Sanctioned for Human Rights Violations
FrontPageAfrica
Monrovia City Mayor and Secretary General of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) has been sanctioned by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the United States… Read more »
Commission Exposes Disturbing Human Rights Abuses Across Country
Addis Standard
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has issued a statement outlining severe human rights abuses affecting civilians in Ethiopia's Amhara, Benishangul Gumuz, and Oromia… Read more »
Rights Group Claims Company Intimidates Communities Along Tanzania-Uganda Oil Pipeline
VOA
The French oil company TotalEnergies coerces and intimidates communities affected by the $5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline project in Tanzania and Uganda, a human rights… Read more »
Lundin, the Trial That 'Should Never Have Taken Place'
JusticeInfo.net
The Lundin trial has now reached the end of its thirteenth week, with 90 weeks still to go. Torgny Wetterberg, defending Ian Lundin, on November 29 began his presentation of the… Read more »
