Hundreds of shanties have been destroyed and three people have died after an inferno ravaged Mathare. Read more »
The row has erupted after opposition leader Helen Zille branded Eastern Cape students as "economic refugees" fleeing their dysfunctional education system for a better one in the ... Read more »
A UN report that found that security forces committed serious human rights violations during the 2011 elections adds impetus to a judicial investigation currently underway. Read more »
The three men arrested on charges of human trafficking and child sex should not be granted bail, chairperson of parliament's portfolio committee on Social Development has said. Read more »
South Africa's Human Rights Day - declared International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination by the UN - is synonymous with an innocuous but historic township, ... Read more »
Events around the run-up to the national conference are reminiscent of the run up to Polokwane including evidence of the misuse of the country's intelligence services, writes the ... Read more »
Almost a year after the country was disrupted by election violence, children are still trying to recover from the psychological and social trauma the unrest caused them. Read more »
George Clooney and four U.S. congressmen were among those arrested at a human rights rally at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington D.C. Read more »
THE German Ambassador to Namibia says locals who collected human skulls from Germany, had hidden agendas and created a negative impression on bilateral relations between the two ... Read more »
Ugandan Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi has released an eight-minute YouTube video saying that Lord's Resistance Army has not returned to Uganda since it was defeated by the Uganda ... Read more »
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