APRIL 21, 2015
State authorities in Somaliland must immediately release detained lawyer and human rights defender Guleid Ahmed Jama, who is being detained on wholly baseless charges, said the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project, in a statement released today.
(NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015)—The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) today raised serious concerns about discriminatory provisions in a law signed by Malawi’s President Mutharika that is expected to go into effect today.
Today, 14 April 2015, sadly marks exactly one year since over 200 innocent girls were abducted in their school in Chibok, Nigeria by militant group Boko Haram.
(NAIROBI, APRIL 13, 2015) – The Kenyan government should urgently review the inclusion of human rights organizations on an official list of alleged supporters of terrorism and ensure full respect of due process, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today.
The letter below was sent on 15 April 2015 to the President of the UN Security Council, HE Dina Kawar, Ambassador of Jordan to the United Nations, with a request for circulation among the Members of the Council.
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Today AMwA [Akina Mama wa Afrika] joins the world in sisterhood to commemorate the anniversary of the abduction of hundreds of Chibok girls and calls for the immediate release and rescue of the hundreds of female students kidnapped from the Government School in the Town of Chibok on the 14th of A
Several African countries continue to record heinous crimes and acts committed by militant groups vowing to resist attempts to bring order and stability in countries beleaguered by decades of conflict such as Somalia, South Sudan, Central African Republic and parts of the great Lakes Region.
A new report published by the Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund (SAIH) gives evidence to this. 2015 marks the 40th anniversary of the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara and is also the focus of SAIHs political campaign, launched 13th of April.
LAGOS, NIGERIA, 14 APRIL 2015 – Today makes it exactly one year that 200+ young female students from the Government Girl’s Secondary School Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria were abducted by heavily armed men suspected to be Boko haram Islamist terrorists in the dead of the night from their school dur
10 April 2015
On 8 April 2015, human rights organisations Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI) and Haki Africa, had their accounts frozen over alleged suspicions of funding terrorism.