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, ...
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, ...
Since the military coup of 27 January 1996 and the declaration of a state of emergency, arbitrary arrests, torture, ill-treatment and the banning of political parties ...
This report contains five appeal cases for trade unionists from around the world who have suffered human rights violations. The cases are: the political killings ...
On 17 or 18 May 1994 the five men referred to above, members of the Tuareg ethnic group, were arrested in the area north of Agadez. They are believed to have been ...
Warghiss Founta and Karbey Moussa, of Tuareg ethnic origin, were killed by security forces on 24 December 1993. There is concern the two men, who were market gardeners ...