HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Turkey: Government Targeting Academics - Dismissals, Prosecutions Create Campus C
Turkish riot policemen walk over academic gowns laid down during a protest against the dismissal of academics from universities in the...
Human Rights Watch
May 14, 2018
Authoritarianism as usual
‘Why do authoritarian regimes love elections?’ asked sociologist Amro Ali, referring to the assured reelection of Egypt’s incumbent...
Le Monde
Apr 27, 2018
Theresa May 'deeply regrets' UK's colonial anti-gay laws
By Farouk Chothia British Prime Minister Theresa May has said she deeply regrets the UK's role in criminalizing same-sex relations in its...
BBC News
Apr 27, 2018
Rights defenders call for international pressures over arbitrary detention in Sudan
April 21, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - Over fifty human rights defenders form Sudan, United Kingdom and the United States have called on the African...
Sudan Tribune
Apr 25, 2018
Myanmar Rohingya: What you need to know about the crisis
The plight of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people is said to be the world's fastest growing refugee crisis. Risking death by sea or...
BBC News
Apr 24, 2018
Manzoor Pashteen: The young tribesman rattling Pakistan's army
By M Ilyas Khan Manzoor Pashteen has accused the Pakistani military of promoting militancy (Photo Credit: Alamy) Tens of thousands of...
BBC News
Apr 23, 2018
By Stifling Migration, Sudan’s Feared Secret Police Aid Europe
Undocumented immigrants arrested last year by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces. The European Union has made the country a nerve center for an...
New York Times 1
Apr 23, 2018
REVIEW: The Long Arc of Human Rights: A Case for Optimism
Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century By Kathryn Sikkink Princeton University Press, 2017, 336pp. Damir Sagolj...
Foreign Affairs
Apr 22, 2018
Human Rights Abuses of Eritreans, At Home and Abroad. Testimony of Maria Burnett, East and Horn of A
April 18, 2018 Co-Chairman Hultgren and members of the Commission, thank you for the invitation to testify today. Thousands of Eritreans,...
Human Rights Watch
Apr 19, 2018
What it Means to be an African Migrant Deported From Israel
Meles Ghirmay remembers every moment leading up to his deportation from Israel. "I was hopeful and thinking that they would give me a...
Genocide Watch
Apr 19, 2018
Three years in jail for Somaliland woman over ‘contemptuous’ poem
April 15, 2018 A young female poet from Somaliland has been jailed for three years over a poem that advocates the reunification of the...
Nduta Waweru | face2faceafrica.com
Apr 19, 2018
Big Protests in South Africa Force Ramaphosa to End London Visit
LONDON — South Africa’s new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, who had traveled to London this week to assure global investors of his...
New York Times 1
Apr 19, 2018
