Human rights concerns over Australia-Fiji defence pact
The Australian Centre for International Justice (ACIJ) has raised concerns over the newly announced Australia-Fiji mutual defence treaty, saying the expanded security partnership should not proceed without stronger human rights safeguards.
Nicaragua strips lawyers of the right to practice
By Megan Janetsky July 10 2026 President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, lead a rally in Managua, Nicaragua, Sept. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga, File) MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s government has stripped masses of lawyers of their licenses to practice in recent days, in what a United Nations expert described Friday as a “purge of the legal profession” aimed at eroding the country’s final shreds of democratic checks and balances. The governme
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Dozens of abducted Nigerian children and teachers rescued
The hostages were taken from three separate schools in the southwestern state of Oyo in May.
Nigeria-South Africa tensions over xenophobic attacks
Nigeria has threatened retaliatory measures against South Africa after Abuja began repatriating hundreds of Nigerians from South Africa this week amid alleged xenophobic attacks by South African protesters.
South African xenophobic protesters intimidate migrants
Anti-immigrant protesters march in Johannesburg on Thursday after the passing of an unofficial June 30 deadline set for undocumented migrants to leave South Africa. File Photo: Oupa Nkosi/Reuters Anti-migrant protests are continuing across South Africa, with humanitarian groups and regional countries on alert as vigilantes search for undocumented migrants. On Thursday, anti-migrant activists in Johannesburg went door-to-door in search of people living in the country without p
Guinea: abductions and disappearances continue
Guinean authorities must reveal the fate of all victims of abductions and enforced disappearances, including National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (Front national pour la défense de la Constitution – FNDC) activists Oumar Sylla, known as Foniké Mengué, and Mamadou Billo Bah, who were forcibly disappeared two years ago today.
