Every year in African cities thousands of families are thrown out of their homes by the authorities or others without human rights safeguards. These forced evictions shatter lives.
Khader Adnan started his hunger strike the day following his arrest from his home in the occupied West Bank to protest his ill-treatment by the Israel Security Agency (ISA).
On 04 February 2012 Russia and China vetoed a rather weak draft UN Security Council resolution on Syria despite wide spread backing of the resolution by the other UN Security Council members.
Ten years ago the first detainees were transferred to the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Today, more than 150 detainees remain there and are subjected to a series of human rights abuses.
As the new Congolese government will take office shortly, you can use this opportunity to press for genuine reform of the justice system. Help persuade the President and the government to give victims of gross human rights violations justice, truth and reparations.
Members of the women's rights organization Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) have repeatedly been arrested while taking part in peaceful demonstrations to protest the social, economic and human rights situation in Zimbabwe.
Sudanese national Hamad al-Neyl Abu Kassawy has been held without charge or trial since his arrest in Medina, Saudi Arabia, in June 2004. His family heard nothing until February 2005, when a Saudi Arabian national who had visited a prison in Medina told them that Hamad al-Neyl Abu Kassawy was detained there.
