Freedom and human rights under siege in Africa amid rising repression
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it – Abraham Lincoln, April 6, 1859 The arrest and alleged ...
Tag: Human Rights
No easy road to ICC justice for Kenya’s victims of abduction and extrajudicial killing
Although the Kenyan government’s inaction on the rising cases of extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, enforced abductions, and illegal detentions has angered many citizens and civil society organisations, humanitarian justice experts ...
Human rights experts call for comprehensive and inclusive approach to Sudan’s crisis
On July 17, the world marked International Justice Day, to commemorate the adoption of the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC is the ...
Ethiopia under pressure to act on human rights abuses
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 ...
Fighting for a cause: Damien Glez on promoting social change through editorial cartoons
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 ...
Leveraging digital technology to further the human rights agenda
In a 2018 opinion piece appearing in the book, New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice, published by the Cambridge University Press under the section on The Future of ...
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