Focuses on the protection and promotion of fundamental rights and freedoms, highlighting both progress and ongoing challenges in human rights across Africa.
GENEVA (4 October 2021) – There are reasonable grounds to believe that war crimes have been committed in Libya, while violence perpetrated in prisons and against migrants there may amount to crimes against humanity, the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya says in a report published today. “Our investigations have established that all parties to the […]
Nozipho Rutsate in Zimbabwe “It was 10am on a Tuesday morning as I was sitting quietly at my corner desk. I gazed into the ceiling trying to figure out where I would get my next story after submitting my last article to the editor of our weekly community newspaper. Having been new in the newsroom, […]
Delivering an update to the forum in Geneva, Deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Nada Al- Nashif, highlighted “staggering levels of localized violence”. She attributed this to community-based militias who were responsible for almost all killings, injuries, abductions and sexual violence between April and June this year. Fight against impunity ‘minimal’ According to the UN […]
Residents’ Associations across Zimbabwe have embarked on a voter mobilisation drive that seeks to target youths, women, people living with disabilities as well as first time voters ahead of the 2023 elections. The voter mobilisation drive is being coordinated by the Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA). Below, we present a communiqué by the residents as: […]
UNMISS Force Commander, Lieutenant-General Shailesh Tinaikar, recently visited Marial Lou, Warrap state, to see first-hand the situation on the ground. Accompanied by Anastasie Nyirigira Mukangarambe, the Head of the UNMISS Field Office in the state, Force Commander Tinaikar was also joined by state officials, including Acting State Governor Debora Uduel Akiech and other prominent state […]
In Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, nearly 730,000 people have fled violent clashes between Mozambican security forces and their allies and a radical armed group affiliated to the Islamic State. SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL is providing an emergency response to the problems of access to water, sanitation and hygiene faced by the displaced population and host communities, as […]
Niger: Increasing number of children killed and recruited by armed groups in Sahel’s tri-border area – new report Increasing numbers of children are being killed and targeted for recruitment by armed groups in conflicts raging at Niger’s borders with Mali and Burkina Faso, Amnesty International said in a new report published today. The 57-page report, […]
A slow and insufficient humanitarian response is forcing people to choose between violence and hunger, warns the Norwegian Refugee Council. Increased violence in Burkina Faso has forced an average of 13,000 people a week to flee their homes since April. Nearly 500 civilians were killed, with attacks by armed groups in Solhan and Arbinda towns […]
Nigeria scales up birth registration of children at risk of statelessness, living in camps for internally displaced people. Over the past seven years, Liyatu Ayuba, 50, a traditional birth attendant, has helped deliver over 100 children. In that time, she has seen many of the children grow up in Durumi camp for internally displaced people […]
In previous years, elections in Zambia were associated with media harassments and violations from contesting candidates and political party sympathizers. The 2021 elections were however a bit different; thanks to the advocacy and capacity building activities undertaken by the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zambia with support from the UNESCO Regional Office for Southern […]
