Tag: Amnesty International

US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa David Satterfield will step down from his role before summer…

South Africa has shown progress in the implementation of the rights of girl children but in many parts of the ...

Amnesty International is calling on Eswatini authorities to investigate the police shooting of a protester and the alleged excessive use ...

Amnesty International South Africa has called on government and politicians to publically reaffirm trust in the media as the world ...

Amnesty International says the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the impact of inequality, discrimination, and oppression across Sub-Saharan Africa.

The report also describes those already most marginalised, including women and refugees, as bearing the devastating brunt of the COVID-19 ...

Alexei Navalny, the prominent opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is incarcerated in conditions that amount to torture and may ...

Myanmar's military is using battlefield weapons and lethal force in its crackdown on protesters against last month's coup, Amnesty International ...

Amnesty International has called for an independent investigation into violence in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province which it alleges involves ...

Nigerian police beat and arrested demonstrators on Saturday as a small group protested over the reopening of the site where ...

Amnesty International has called on law-makers from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to strengthen laws to protect human rights ...

A Tanzanian opposition politician is seeking asylum in Kenya and has pleaded with the country's authorities not to deport him ...

More health workers have died from the coronavirus in Mexico than any other country on the planet, Amnesty International said ...

Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders must urgently take concrete measures to fix the human rights crisis in the region ...

Amnesty International South Africa has called on government to honour Nelson Mandela by realizing the rights of people; now and ...

Technology developed by Israel's NSO Group was used by the Moroccan government to spy on journalist Omar Radi, a critic ...

Head of the Civil Human Rights Front Jimmy Sham was attacked by as many as five masked men wearing black ...

Amnesty called on the UN Human Rights Council to open an independent inquiry to "put an end to these crimes, ...

Sudan's former strongman Omar al-Bashir was accused of corruption, illegal possession of foreign currency, acquiring wealth illegally, financing terrorism, and ...

Amnesty International on Thursday suspended its local branch in Zimbabwe after uncovering evidence of fraud, in the first ever such ...