Burundi

Human Rights in REPUBLIC OF BURUNDI

Burundi: Rape - the hidden human rights abuse
24 February 2004

Like all human rights abuses in Burundi, rape has become an entrenched feature of the crisis because the perpetrators have largely not been brought to justice. ...

Report       AFR 16/006/2004

Burundi: Further information on Women under attack
17 February 2004

The action of sexual violence is now closed. The action helped to raise awareness of the pain and injustice that women survivors of rape have endured during Burundi's ...

ActionDocument       AFR 16/018/2004

Burundi: Women under attack
17 February 2004

Sexual violence has been widely used during Burundi's 10-year civil war to terrorize and humiliate the population. This action urges the public to write to the ...

ActionDocument       AFR 16/005/2004

Burundi: A critical time. Human rights briefing on Burundi
13 January 2004

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 ...

Report       AFR 16/002/2004

Burundi: International commitment to human rights issues is ...
13 January 2004

As part of the international effort to aid Burundi's transition to peace and rebuild its infrastructure, Amnesty International sets out a number of recommendations ...

Report       AFR 16/001/2004

Burundi: Donors must fund human rights protection
12 January 2004

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PRESS RELEASE. AI Index: AFR 16/004/2004 (Public). News Service No: 007. 12 January 2004. Burundi: Donors must fund human rights protection ...

Press Release       AFR 16/004/2004

Burundi: Torture/ill-treatment/ Unlawful detention
7 January 2004

Alexis Nimubona is being unlawfully detained in an unofficial detention centre in southern Burundi after being arrested by members of Burundi's main active armed ...

Urgent Action       AFR 16/003/2004

2004 UN Commission on Human Rights. Mission: To Promote and ...
1 January 2004

Promotion and protection of human rights are among the key functions of the Commission on Human Rights and yet there are human rights situations which the Commission ...

Report       IOR 41/001/2004

The Wire, December 2003. Vol. 33, No. 11.
1 December 2003

1) Executions in Uzbekistan 2) Viet Nam restricts Internet freedom 3) Rape committed with impunity in Burundi 4) The 'forgotten detainees' of the Bahamas 5) Human ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/011/2003

Burundi/Rwanda: Further information on Fear of torture / Fear of ' ...
12 November 2003

On 9 November, gendarmes in the town of Rumonge, southern Burundi reportedly handed Aimable Nkurunziza and Charles Muyenzi over to members of the Rwandese security ...

Urgent Action       AFR 16/019/2003