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Publication Date: 04 March 2009

Zimbabwe activists including Jestina Mukoko bailed

Human rights workers Jestina Mukoko and Broderick Takawira have been released after three months in prison. Both were victims of enforced disappearance, unlawful arres

Publication Date: 04 March 2009

ICC issues arrest warrant for Sudanese President al Bashir

Sudanese authorities have a legal obligation to arrest President al Bashir, who has been charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes, committed during the conf

Publication Date: 24 February 2009

Binyam Mohamed released from Guantánamo

UK resident Binyam Mohamed has been released from detention in Guantánamo Bay and allowed to return to the UK.

Publication Date: 24 February 2009

Nigerian states urged not to execute

Nigeria’s state governments have been urged not to extend the death penalty to include crimes such as kidnapping.

Publication Date: 11 February 2009

Two journalists attacked in Somalia

Two journalists have been attacked, one fatally, in less than a week in Somalia.

Publication Date: 28 January 2009

Building trust and respect for human rights

Those who watched Barack Obama take office on 20 January were part of a far-reaching celebration of the once seemingly impossible becoming reality.

Publication Date: 28 January 2009

Nigeria's proposed ban on same-sex partnerships an assault on human rights

A bill now before the Nigerian National Assembly aims to outlaw marriages between individuals of the same sex – in a country where homosexuality is already cri

Publication Date: 22 January 2009

Mandatory death penalty ruled unconstitutional in Uganda

The Supreme Court of Uganda has ruled however, that the death penalty per se remains constitutional.

Publication Date: 20 January 2009

Struggling for women's rights in Somalia

Questions and answers with Somali human rights activist, Zam Zam Adbullahi.

Publication Date: 16 January 2009

Fifty-three death sentences commuted in Zambia

The President of Zambia has commuted the death sentences of 53 prisoners to custodial sentences.

Publication Date: 16 January 2009

Sudanese opposition leader arrested

A Sudanese opposition leader has been arrested after calling on Sudan's president to present himself to the International Criminal Court.

Publication Date: 14 January 2009

Jestina Mukoko still in custody – African leaders silent

Zimbabwean human rights activist Jestina Mukoko was abducted from her home by armed state security agents, at around 5am on 3 December 2008.

Publication Date: 09 January 2009

Death sentences commuted in Ghana – time for abolition

The outgoing President of Ghana, John Kufuor, commuted all death sentences in the country.

Publication Date: 08 January 2009

Ghana's new President must commit to human rights

Professor John Evans Atta Mills must make human rights central to his political programme. In a new document, Amnesty International has highlighted seven key human rig

Publication Date: 08 January 2009

Ethiopian parliament adopts repressive new NGO law

The Charities and Societies Proclamation law could criminalise the human rights activities of both foreign and domestic non-governmental organizations.

Publication Date: 06 January 2009

Journalists and humanitarian workers at risk in war-ravaged Somalia

A worker with the United Nations World Food Programme was killed by unidentified gunmen in southern Somalia, highlights the dangerous environment in which journalists

Publication Date: 24 December 2008

Abductees found in police custody in Zimbabwe

Jestina Mukoko, the director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP), who was abducted from her home on 3 December, has been left by her abductors at Matapi Police Stati

Publication Date: 24 December 2008

Zimbabwe - a population on the edge of collapse

Zimbabweans are facing yet another difficult year in 2009, unless a political settlement is found to arrest the fast deteriorating socio-economic conditions in the c

Publication Date: 19 December 2008

Former military official "instigated Rwandan genocide"

A former senior defence official was convicted on Thursday of instigating Rwanda's 1994 genocide and committing crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Publication Date: 19 December 2008

Eritrean asylum-seekers face deportation from Egypt

A group of up to 104 Eritrean asylum-seekers held in a detention facility in Sinai in Egypt are at risk of imminent deportation to Eritrea.