This report examines how one year on from the killing of General Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of the Republic of Niger, and of three others, those responsible ...
The culture of impunity which has characterised Niger for years has just been consecrated with a decision to grant amnesty to the perpetrators of human rights ...
On 18 July 1999 a new Constitution was accepted by popular referendum in Niger. Article 141 of the constitution provides an amnesty for the authors of the human ...
A new constitution is to be submitted to popular referendum on 18 July 1999. there are fears that this will provide an amnesty for the authors of the military coups ...
This document outlines the situation in Niger where freedom of expression is under extreme threat after the introduction of a repressive press law, a ban on broadcasting ...
One third of the world's refugees and more than half the internally displaced are in Africa. Widespread disregard for human rights has caused their forcible displacement ...
Amnesty International urges the Nigerian Government to end the systematic human rights violations committed with impunity by the security forces since the January ...
At least 100 members and supporters of the Front pour la restauration et la defense de la democratie (FRDD), Front for the Restoration and Defence of Democracy, ...