Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes
Activists worry the arrests are a move by the cash-strapped government to open the country to now banned metals mining Five prominent environmental defenders who...
Category : Human rights
UN rights chief urges rapid inquiry after 28 die in Burkina Faso town
Volker Türk says investigation launched by government into deaths in mainly Fulani and Muslim area should be rapid and open The head of the United...
UN calls for release of jailed journalist on hunger strike in Senegal
Concerns raised over health of Pape Alé Niang, detained since 20 December on charges of revealing confidential government information Pressure is mounting on authorities in...
UN human rights chief says UK should rethink plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda
Exclusive: Volker Türk critical of scheme he considers ethically problematic and believes government must look again at how to deal with people-smuggling gangs and the...
Report into Melilla deaths criticises ‘widespread use of unlawful force’
Amnesty accuses Morocco and Spain of also failing to offer first aid after crush in which at least 37 died The “widespread use of unlawful...
Starvation being used as a weapon of war in South Sudan, report reveals
International community urged to intervene as hundreds of thousands forced into refugee camps as homes and crops destroyed and aid workers attacked Starvation is being...
Head of rights group during Argentina’s military dictatorship dies at 93
Hebe de Bonafini co-founded Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in 1977 after her two sons were arrested and then disappeared Hebe de Bonafini, who...
International troops quit Mali as violence and Moscow’s influence grow
Germany latest to end peacekeeping mission as operations prove unable to stop Islamic extremist insurgency Thousands of international troops are withdrawing from Mali amid surging...
The Egyptian human rights activists unable to attend Cop27
Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh follows decade-long crackdown on civil society in Egypt Cop27 live – latest news updates “Honestly, what I want is to be...
Tigray rebels tortured and killed civilians in renewed fighting, survivors claim
Witnesses claim the attacks in Amhara region last month were carried out on those the TPLF suspected of supporting Ethiopian federal forces Tigrayan rebel forces...
