Human Rights Watch (HRW) is accusing Chinese-run copper mining companies in this Southern African country of routinely flouting labor laws and regulations designed to protect workers’ safety and the right to organise. The accusation plays into the hands of newly elected president, Michael Sata, a longtime critic of Chinese investment and labor practices in the [...]
Amnesty International has commended this West African nation in principle for its renewed commitment to the principles of Human Rights. Despite the country affirming their commitment to Human Rights and Maternal care, the advocacy group have called for ‘necessary steps to abolish the death penalty in national legislation and to commute existing death sentences to [...]
A Kenyan human rights activist held with no evidence for his involvement in a bomb attack in Uganda last year has now been released without charge. Al-Amin Kimathi and four others were freed at the start of their trial which began on Monday 12th Sept. Amnesty International’s Africa Deputy Programme director Michelle Kagari commented that [...]
Amnesty International is urging the authorities here to immediately release two men due to stand trial on Thursday 18th August on charges of homosexuality and to repeal the law used to imprison them. The two men – a 19-year-old known only as Jonas, and a 20-year-old known only as Francky – were arrested on 25th [...]
The human rights group, Amnesty International, has reported that supporters of the former President Laurent Gbagbo are at risk from reprisal attacks. The warning comes despite the newly established President, Alassane Outtara, calling on Monday 11th April, for citizens to ‘abstain from all forms of reprisals and violence.’ They are concerned over the deteriorating human [...]
Amnesty International is urging the authorities here to ensure that government officials suspected of being implicated in post-election violence in ‘08 comply with a summons from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC on Tuesday 8th March issued two summonses to six Kenyans including the Deputy Prime Minister and the former chief of police, but [...]
An investigation released today by human rights group, Amnesy International has condemned the widespread violence by supporters of both outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo and President-elect Alassane Ouattara. The political standoff has exacerbated existing ethnic tensions and due to the instability there is no recourse for the victims to seek justice. As the eyes of the [...]
