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A two-tracks road to justice for Sierra Leoneans killed in August 2022 violence
THE CATALYST As the world continued to grapple with the economic impacts of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, in August 2022, Sierra Leone erupted into violent events, leaving some cities in the country, including the capital Freetown, in turmoil. The escalation of violence has been attributed to...
Türkiye/Syria Earthquakes: A Human Rights Approach to Crisis Response
The catastrophic earthquakes that devastated south-eastern Türkiye and northern Syria on 6 February and again on 20 February require a committed and sustained global humanitarian response. To date, the combined death toll is over 46,000 and climbing. Hundreds of thousands have been left homeless...
Melilla: Between silence and lies
Sifting through Facebook, Huwaida stumbled upon the footage she was dreading. But it was only when further photos of her uncle Anwar’s lifeless body emerged & a human rights organization on the ground confirmed it, that she knew for sure. Anwar was dead. Anwar from Sudan, was just one of...
Biodiversity: Plan to declare 30% of the world protected areas by 2030 must place Indigenous peoples’ rights at its heart
A proposal to commit states to declare 30% of the Earth’s land and sea mass protected for conservation and biodiversity by 2030, the so-called 30 x 30 proposal, will be a major focus of discussions at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD), in...
A life of waiting
November is a difficult month in our family. It is a reminder that another year has gone by that Papa cannot be with us. It is also a reminder that he will once again be alone on his birthday. All we can do on the 19th of November since the past three years is think […]
More than 100,000 people urge UN states to end spyware crisis
UN member states should urgently support a halt on the sale, transfer and use of spyware to end the endemic unlawful surveillance of activists, journalists, lawyers, and political leaders, Amnesty International said today. 107, 273 people from 180 countries and territories signed the organization’s...
Central African Republic: victims call for justice
Türkiye: Free The Gezi 7
From violently dispersed protests to a politically-motivated prosecution that led to the convictions of Osman Kavala and seven co-defendants in Türkiye; this is a chronicle of a chilling injustice. The political prosecution of the Gezi prisoners of conscience The imprisonment of 7 people known as...
Latest news on Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Updated: December 22, 2022Annual Report 2021/22
Senegal will never forget March 2021
The human rights situation has deteriorated sharply in Eswatini. The Eswatini government continues to
ignore the constitutional provisions on human rights and use law enforcement and legal instruments to
crush calls for justice and democratic reform. What started as a call for an end to police...