One year after the battle between government and armed opposition
forces in N’Djaména, Chad, serious human rights violations perpetrated
by the security
People are being brutally beaten, burnt with candles, buried up to
their necks in the ground, subjected to electric shocks and exposed to
intense heat or cold, accor
The country's security forces have adopted torture as the preferred method of investigation and repression, according to a new Amnesty International report.
The five-day war between Georgia and the Russian Federation has had
serious and lasting consequences for the civilian population caught in
the crossfire.
Widespread human rights violations were committed during northern Uganda's 20-year conflict between the Government of Uganda's armed forces and the Lord's Resistance A
At least 40 humanitarian and human rights workers have been killed so far this year, forcing aid organizations to suspend their programmes and withdraw staff.
