Tag Archives: #HumanRights

The Gambia has appointed a special prosecutor to pursue long-delayed justice for crimes committed under the rule of former president...

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has signed into law a controversial bill that doubles the maximum penalty for same-sex relations,...

Aboubacar Sidiki Diakité, also known as Toumba, has died in custody, authorities confirmed on Wednesday. Diakité, a key figure in...

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has voted to recognise the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as...

Investigators in Kenya have uncovered 32 bodies, most of them children, from a suspected mass grave in the western town...

A Tunisian court has sentenced human rights activist Saadia Mosbah to eight years in prison and fined her £26,000 ($35,000),...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on King Charles III to use President Bola Tinubu’s state visit...

Israel’s military has dropped all charges against five soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee from Gaza at Sde...

Lawmakers in Senegal on Wednesday endorsed a new bill that doubles the maximum prison term for same-sex sexual acts and...

China is poised to pass a new law aimed at promoting what the government calls “ethnic unity and progress,” a...