Tag: Human Rights

Three United Nations (UN) agencies have called for an end to virginity testing globally, a common practice in South Africa ...

The United Nations human rights chief called Friday for an international investigation of atrocities in Venezuela, blasting the government's chronic ...

May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. To help raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press the ...

As South Africa marks the end of Human Rights month this weekend, African governments have been urged to tighten laws ...

The 21st of March marked the 58th Anniversary of the Sharpeville tragedy. The tragedy, in itself, was barbaric and showed ...

A string of events will be hosted to mark Human Rights Day across South Africa. Government, civil society groups and ...

Racism squanders human potential. That is how struggle stalwart Ahmed Kathrada summed up the devastating effects of racism which continues ...

President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday he was pulling the Philippines out of the treaty underpinning the International Criminal Court, ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW), Southern Africa Director, Dewa Mavhinga says the Life Esidimeni deaths have been the standout issue of ...

Six soldiers were arrested in mid-December for an attempt on the life of Guinea-Bissau's army chief. Two heads of the ...

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has called for the perpetrators of violations of international humanitarian law and the abusers ...

The recognition of the inherent dignity and equal rights of human beings is still far from universal. That was the ...

Burundian authorities have intensified an ethnically-driven purge of the army this year, risking renewed civil war in the central African ...

A Nigerian soldier has been sentenced to death for the murder of a Boko Haram suspect.

Festus Mogae has told the UN Security Council that there is a heightened sense of alarm that the situation in ...

International human rights organisation FIDH has lauded the decision by South Africa and Gambia to remain in the International Criminal ...

The Kenyan government must halt its crackdown on media freedom and allow Jerome Starkey to return to the country, said ...

Negotiations to persuade the defeated President Yayha Jammeh of Gambia to step down have failed.