(Goma) – Rogue Congolese army officers and armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are forcibly recruiting and training for combat hundreds of young men and boys in new efforts to expand their ranks, Human Rights Watch said today. The wave…Continue Reading

This 65-page report documents the state’s failure to ensure accountability for abuses committed under the country’s de facto government in 2009. The report also documents 47 cases of threats or attacks – including 18 killings – against journali…Continue Reading

 
By Roger Minoungou, co-ordinator for growth and activism, Amnesty International Burkina Faso
Write for Rights.
Since Saturday 4 December, the Letter Writing Marathon has been in full swing for Amnesty International Burkina Faso.
The Letter Writing M…Continue Reading

WE are hardly alive now. Please help us out. Otherwise we are going to be killed." I received this text message from a Uighur  refugee in Cambodian police detention in December 2009, hours before he and 19 other Uighurs were forced onto a plane a…Continue Reading

The United Nations said Sunday it has received hundreds of reports of people being abducted from their homes at night by armed assailants in military uniform and that there is growing evidence of “massive violations of human rights” since Ivory Coast’s…Continue Reading

Israel is preventing Palestinian development in parts of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem while pouring funding into Jewish settlements, the Human Rights Watch group said on Sunday.Continue Reading

This report shows that Israel operates a two-tier system for the two populations of the West Bank in the large areas where it exercises exclusive control. The report is based on case studies comparing Israel’s starkly different treatment of settlemen…Continue Reading