Several experts have joined the growing number of groups urging the United Nations Human Rights Council to act on the atrocities and human rights violations that have been reported in...
Read moreTwo human rights organisations have asked the government of Bangladesh to ensure accountability and justice for victims of torture, enforced disappearance, and extrajudicial killings. The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)...
Read moreThe Boko Haram insurgency, with its spillover into Cameroon, Chad and Niger, is the most reported-upon security crisis in Nigeria. However the conflict between farmers and herders in Nigeria was...
Read moreThe South Sudanese Government and several opposition groups have come to a peace agreement brokered by Roman Catholic group Sant’ Egidio. In the declaration, the warring parties promised to enact...
Read moreBy WANJA THUKU A furtive card game was in progress beneath the huddled luminous green and orange jackets at the side of the intersection of Mombasa Road and the dirt...
Read more(Nairobi, August 28, 2017) – Kenya’s presidential election on August 8, 2017 was marred by serious human rights violations, including unlawful killings and beatings by police during protests and house-to-house...
Read moreGENEVA, 15 June 2017 – “We were struck in our investigations by the feeling of deep and widespread fear running through the testimonies we gathered,” said Fatsah Ouguergouz, Reine Alapini...
Read moreBy Kwamchetsi Makokha and Susan Kendi Expert testimony at the International Criminal Court has laid bare the genesis of Uganda’s violent history that gave rise to the Lord’s Resistance Army,...
Read moreStatement of ICC Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, before the United Nations Security Council on the Situation in Darfur, pursuant to UNSCR 1593 (2005) Thank you for the opportunity to present my...
Read moreICC lawyer’s dream of top UN torture job suffers major setback Dreams of a celebrated British lawyer Karim Khan becoming the top United Nations official on torture ended abruptly this...
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