Africa
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Arrests in Zimbabwe Part of Broader Crackdown on Human Rights
Tags Share The media profession in Zimbabwe is once again under siege. During the past week, four newspaper journalists have been arrested, and three of them charged with slander, in a country already notorious for systematic violations of human rights. On the surface, this latest crackdown might be expected, or at the least, not altogether…
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Enough is Enough in Horribly Repressive Eritrea
Tags Share This week, Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak spent his fourteenth consecutive birthday in prison. Isaak was arrested back in 2001, along with twenty others, for signing an open letter critical of the government in Asmara. These individuals were labeled as “spies” and enemies of the state simply for demanding democratic reforms in their country.…
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Angola’s Escalating Repression Should Prompt American Action
Tags Share After almost four decades in power, Angolan President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, aged 73, continues to smash dissent with the keenly energetic fists of a much younger man. Indeed, Angola’s political climate has only become more toxic and paranoid over the course of 2015. We have witnessed the legal persecution of a journalist…
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UN: Unprecedented Concluding Observations on Western Sahara
Tags Share (October 20, 2015 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights commends the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) for its Concluding Observations to Morocco with regards to Western Sahara. In September 2015, the CESCR reviewed the Kingdom of Morocco’s compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and…
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UN Treaty Body Must Hold Morocco to Account
Tags Share (Washington, D.C. | September 1, 2015) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, in partnership with several other non-governmental organizations and academics, formally submitted observations to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR Committee) regarding human rights violations in Western Sahara. The ESCR Committee will review the Kingdom of Morocco’s compliance…
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Letter Urges President Obama to Support African Civil Society During Visit to Continent
Tags Share (Washington, D.C. | July 14, 2015) Today, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, together with Front Line Defenders, Open Society Foundations, and the World Movement for Democracy, delivered a letter to President Barack Obama (attached below), welcoming his decision to once again visit the sub-Saharan Africa region. The letter highlighted particular human rights concerns…
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RFK Human Rights Releases Analysis on Voting Rights Violations in Ethiopia
Tags Share Read the full report here (Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFK Human Rights) released a briefing paper (see attachment) today documenting a range of human rights violations that have taken place in the context of Ethiopia’s upcoming parliamentary election, scheduled for May 24, and calls upon African Union (AU) election observers…
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Briefing Paper: Imperiling the Right to Vote in Ethiopia
Tags Share As Ethiopia prepares to hold its parliamentary elections on May 24, 2015, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights has written a briefing paper detailing several pre-electoral violations that jeopardize the right to vote and the right to participate in government in the country. Over the last several years, and with increasing intensity in recent…
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Solitary Confinement of Activist Thulani Maseko
Tags Share FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (March 19, 2015 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights strongly condemns the continued mistreatment of human rights defender Thulani Maseko in Swaziland, who was today moved to solitary confinement and denied visitors, including from his lawyer, after the publication of a prison letter, marking the one-year anniversary of…
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Western Sahara: Reported Human Rights Violations
Bi-annual report: July 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
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Gambia: Human Rights Abuses on the Rise
Tags Share Since seizing power in a 1994 military coup, President Yahya Jammeh has made Gambia one of the most repressive countries in all of Africa. In two decades of Jammeh’s rule, state-sanctioned torture, enforced disappearances, murders and arbitrary executions, and routine denials of other basic human rights have become commonplace. On December 30, 2014,…
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