Burundi: A critical time. Human rights briefing on Burundi

Index Number: AFR 16/002/2004
Date Published: 13 January 2004
Categories: Africa, Burundi

This document summarises Amnesty International's findings during its two visitsto Burundi in 2003 as well as sustained research both before and since. It particularly focuses on the administration of justice, unlawful killings, violence against women, the right to health and some of the consequences of the proliferation of small arms in the country.