Ethiopian Airlines faces legal case over claims it blocks Tigrayans from travel
Passengers accuse airline of refusing to sell tickets to people from the ethnic minority to fly from northern region to Addis Ababa A civil society...
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Ugandan president signs anti-LGBTQ+ law with death penalty for same-sex acts
Global outcry over Museveni’s assent to draconian new anti-gay law, condemned as a ‘permission slip for hate and dehumanisation’ Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, has signed...
Families ask human rights court to free jailed Tunisian opposition leaders
Daughters of Rached Ghannouchi and Said Ferjani demand justice amid continuing crackdown on dissent by President Saied Families of detained Tunisian opposition politicians filed a...
Russian mercenaries behind slaughter of 500 in Mali village, UN report finds
Report implicates Wagner group fighters in Moura atrocity, including the torture and rape of civilians First came a single helicopter, flying low over the marshes...
Zimbabwe author Tsitsi Dangarembga has conviction for protest overturned
Harare high court quashes suspended sentence and fine handed down to Booker-longlisted writer last year Zimbabwean author and activist Tsitsi Dangarembga has had her conviction...
Grain trader Cargill faces legal challenge in US over Brazilian soya supply chain
World’s biggest grain trader accused of ‘shoddy due diligence’ on deforestation and alleged rights violations The world’s largest grain trader, Cargill, is facing a first-ever...
Six Libyans face death penalty for converting to Christianity
Religious laws are increasingly being used to silence civil society and human rights groups, say activists Six Libyans are facing the death penalty for converting...
UK ‘should impose sanctions on human rights abusers in Sudan’ – report
UK all-party group says failure to bring to justice Darfur abusers 20 years ago has led to current violence Sudan crisis – latest updates The...
‘Burhan and Hemedti are both genocidaires’: activists despair as Sudan violence surges
Sudanese campaigners describe their fears amid escalating clashes between forces loyal to the two generals, as well as their anger over warnings ignored The Sudanese...
Almost half of human rights defenders killed last year were in Colombia
The county was the deadliest for rights activists in 2022, and Latin America and Ukraine together accounted for 80% of the 401 deaths Colombia was...
