DR Congo: Rogue Leaders, Rebels Forcibly Recruit Youth
(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
After the Coup
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
Write for Rights – Burkina Faso
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
Gbagbo sits tight as UN steps up pressure in I.Coast
Laurent Gbagbo’s isolated Ivory Coast regime was locked in a tense stand-off with the international community on Monday, amid complaints by the United Nations of “massive” human rights abuses.Continue Reading
Analysis: Inside Perspective on Uighurs
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
UN: Reports of abductions in Ivory Coast grow
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 deprives Palestinians in West Bank: report
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
More than 50 dead in Ivory Coast unrest: UN rights chief
Post-election violence in Ivory Coast has left more than 50 people dead and more than 200 injured, the UN high commissioner for human rights said Sunday, deploring “massive violations of human rights.”Continue Reading
Israel deprives Palestinians in West Bank
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
Activists condemn Kuwait crackdown on opposition
Gulf human rights activists and academics on Sunday condemned a Kuwaiti police crackdown earlier this month on a public gathering for the opposition.Continue Reading
Separate and Unequal
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
French envoy says DR Congo rights situation a ‘shipwreck’
A French envoy on Saturday described the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a “shipwreck” after a week-long visit to the country.Continue Reading
HRW tells China to explain fate of Uighurs from Cambodia
Human Rights Watch has called on Beijing to explain the fate of 20 Uighurs deported from Cambodia a year ago who had sought asylum following deadly ethnic violence in China’s far-western Xinjiang region.Continue Reading
China asked to explain fate of Uighurs from Cambodia
Human Rights Watch has called on Beijing to explain the fate of 20 Uighurs deported from Cambodia a year ago who had sought asylum following deadly ethnic violence in China’s far-western Xinjiang region.Continue Reading