Rights

‘I went through hell!’ – ‘Nightmare’ of underage marriage for Moroccan girls

Tamarwoute – Nadia was just 16 when she was married off to a violent husband old enough to be... Read more

7 Mar, 2022

Bamako – Security in Mali has improved but freedom of expression has worsened, an independent UN expert said Tuesday, in... Read more

23 Feb, 2022

Istanbul – Turkish journalist Sedef Kabas begins her second month in detention on Tuesday for “insulting the president”, an increasingly... Read more

22 Feb, 2022

Nairobi – Tigrayan fighters deliberately killed civilians and gang-raped dozens of women and underage girls in two towns in Ethiopia’s... Read more

16 Feb, 2022

Cairo – Egyptian activist Walid Shawky began a hunger strike to protest against his detention for more than three years,... Read more

14 Feb, 2022

Nairobi – Uganda should drop all charges against a prominent author who has fled into exile and instead investigate claims... Read more

11 Feb, 2022

Nairobi – Burundian civil society groups on Wednesday angrily reproached the EU over its decision to resume financial aid to... Read more

10 Feb, 2022

Washington – Film star Angelina Jolie was back on Capitol Hill Wednesday pleading with US lawmakers to immediately pass measures... Read more

10 Feb, 2022

Kampala – A prominent Ugandan author who was charged with insulting President Yoweri Museveni and his son has fled the... Read more

10 Feb, 2022