The deputy disarmament chief at the UN, Adedeji Ebo, issued a warning on Monday to the Security Council on the escalating violence across the world that has been attributed to the cross-border exchange of small arms and light weapons, in conflicts ranging from Haiti to Africa’s Sahel region. At the joint UN Meeting, Ebo also [...]
The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday expressed deep concern over recent reports emerging of mass killings, rapes, and other crimes allegedly committed during the course of the Rapid Support Forces’ seizure of El Fasher, North Darfur, in Sudan, which is said to be compounding an already catastrophic [...]
Human Rights Watch HRW on Tuesday criticized the Cameroonian security forces for fueling violence as opposed to protecting the people during the protests currently ongoing in the country. It called for an impartial investigation into the use of force, and the release of those arrested. The violence erupted in the country after the October 12 [...]
Amnesty International on Friday voiced concern over the possible closure of the Special Criminal Court (SCC) in the Central African Republic due to a lack of funding. The rights group stated that it would lead to a catastrophic blow to prospects of thousands of victims and survivors in securing justice for serious crimes committed over [...]
Amnesty International on Tuesday issued a press statement condemning the attack on a Venezuelan human rights defender and asylum seeker, Yendri Velásquez, alongside his companion, Luis Peche, also a Venezuelan-Colombian activist in Bogotá. The statement came after two gunmen opened fire at the pair. The attack comes a year after they fled Venezuela due to [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW), in a open letter on Wednesday, joined more than 3,700 non-profit and non-partisan organizations to reject threats to nonprofit organizations introduced by US President Donald Trump’s recent domestic terrorism memorandum. The letter comes shortly after the coalition issued a press statement on October 1 calling the action an attempt to intimidate [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday called for the release of 75-year-old Adama Keita, the father of Guinean journalist Maoudou Babila Keita, who was abducted by unknown people in Nzérékoré on September 29, more than a year after Babila fled the country following an attempted kidnapping. According to CPJ’s Francophone Africa representative: The circumstances [...]
Amnesty International called Thursday for Germany to provide reparations for genocide committed against Namibia’s Ovaherero and Nama peoples between 1904 and 1908—steps Germany has refused, despite recognizing the atrocities as genocide. The appeal came on the 121st anniversary of Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha’s extermination order against the Ovaherero people, issued Oct. 2, 1904. A [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Monday expressed great disturbance by the degree of police brutality during a protest in Madagascar that stirred the country due to water outage and power cuts. Türk, in his press release, stated that: I am shocked and saddened by the killings and injuries in the protests [...]
Yesterday the country woke up to yet another day of commemoration, marking 35 years since the famous Saba Saba Movement, first held on July 7, 1990. The movement began as a protest, demanding multiparty democracy against the then-government’s autocratic regime. Despite the protest being banned, key opposition leaders still convened in Nairobi. This resulted in [...]
