Human Rights

On March 29, 2023, the General Assembly of the United Nations voted yes by consensus on Vanuatu's call to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for an advisory opinion on...

The Hague, the city of peace and justice, will soon become the seat of a new international organisation: the Ukraine Damage Register. The new international institution, to be set up...

Ethnic profiling, the practice whereby people are singled out for extra strict controls because of the colour of their skin, for example at airports, must cease, the Court of Appeal...

Now that peace seems to be holding in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, attention is turning to the human rights situation and the violations that were reported during the two-year conflict. The...

Rarely are female editorial cartoonists at the forefront of political discussion in Kenya, but Celeste Wamiru is proving that a woman's voice can be just as powerful as any man's....

The peace deal that ended the fighting between Ethiopian government forces and Tigray rebels was as welcome as it was unexpected. It brought to an end a two-year conflict that...

For generations, editorial cartoons have been poking fun at those in power and holding them accountable for their actions. Kings, dictators, and other authority figures are often the target of...

What is the role of civil society in the developing contest in Kenya? Are CSOs disconnected from the society they seek to serve? What is the future of civil society...

Kenyan police officer Ahmed Rashid is expected in court on December 8, 2022, to face a murder charge after he was caught on video executing two suspected gangsters in March...

Throughout history, political cartoonists have been censored, jailed, and even killed because of their work. But this has not stopped editorial cartoonists from continuing to use their art to draw...