We write to draw your attention to Senegal's long delay in opening proceedings against the former President of Chad, Hissène Habré. We appeal to the African and international communities to encourage Senegal to discharge the mandate it was given by
The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila, received on 2 May 2008, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG), Alan Doss, and Ambassadors of the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, South Africa and Angola.
The Johannesburg based Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) has confirmed that 2 weeks before the March 29 elections, they urged South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to investigate and prosecute 18 top Zimbabwe security officials for committing crimes against humanity.
This submission summarizes Human Rights Watch's key concerns with Zambia's fulfillment of its human rights obligations and commitments in the context of women's human rights and HIV/AIDS, and outlines recommendations to Zambia.
Most members from Women and Men Zimbabwe Arise, who were arrested on Monday after police violently disrupted a peaceful demonstration in Bulawayo, were released without charge by the end of the day.
Reporters Without Borders is deeply disturbed by the increasingly fraught climate for the press in Rwanda, in particular, the expulsion of three newspaper editors from a 2 May ceremony marking World Press Freedom Day on the orders of the new
Voicing her deep concern about the reported attacks on villages in North Darfur, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan has called for immediate access to the affected areas to provide assistance and medical evacuation for the injured.
The trial of a former Rwandan minister, who allegedly coordinated the killing of Tutsis, began today before the United Nations war crimes tribunal set up to deal with the 1994 genocide in the small African country.
Two National Reports Detail Racial Disparity in Arrests and Imprisonment Ostensibly color-blind, the US "war on drugs" disproportionately targets urban minority neighborhoods, Human Rights Watch and The Sentencing Project said in two reports released today. Although whites commit more drug
The Minnesota Supreme Court wiil hold a hearing Wednesday on whether a federal judge in Minneapolis has the authority to reject a settlement reached in a lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group.
The state's appeal court says the state'sutilities commission must reconsider its decision to block CenterPoint Energy from recovering $21 million from customers that it underbilled over four years.
The Liberia National Bar Association (LNBA) over the weekend ended its 1st. and 2nd. quarterly assemblies in Monrovia. The program brought together most of Liberia's finest lawyers who deliberated on some important judicial issues.
