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
Burundi MPs approve police raids without warrants
NAIROBI – The lower house of Burundi's parliament has voted to allow security forces in the politically tense nation to conduct night...
AFP (Agence France-Press)
Apr 19, 2018
Russia: One year after ‘gay purge’ in Chechnya, still no justice for victims
April 4, 2018 The Russian authorities have abjectly failed to take effective action in response to the violent persecution of gay men in...
Amnesty International
Apr 19, 2018
Ethiopia’s Crisis: What is Causing the Political Turmoil and Ethnic Tension?
April 3, 2018 || By Betre Y. Getahun Ethiopia has been under a state of emergency for much of the past two years. The first state of...
Africa.com
Apr 19, 2018
Thousands flee fighting in eastern DR Congo to Uganda
At first the silence is strange, then unnerving. An African village missing its people. Perhaps 2,000 men, woman and children, vanished....
John Ray | ITV News
Apr 12, 2018
Beatings, electric shock treatment and forced starvation for LGBT+ community in ‘secret' Chechny
April 4th, 2018 Severe beatings, electric shock treatment and forced starvation continue to be perpetrated against the LGBT+ community in...
Genocide Watch
Apr 12, 2018
Tories urge Trudeau to hold Myanmar responsible for Rohingya genocide
Newly arrived Rohingya wait for their turn to collect building material for their shelters distributed by aid agencies in Kutupalong...
Janice Dickson | iPolitics
Apr 12, 2018
