Human Rights,Human rights abuses Stories
The advisory calls on the government to strengthen law enforcement, review protection mechanisms, and foster stronger partnerships with non-state acto...
The organisations highlighted that adolescents, people living with disabilities, those in rural or underserved communities, survivors of sexual violen...
The law has been condemned for provisions which limit political expression through blogs, online media and mobile platforms like WhatsApp. People have...
They added that unless the Judiciary now takes firm control of the timetable and resists further attempts to stall, survivors will continue to wait wi...
Some 708 million women are excluded from the labour market by unpaid care work. Even those who work are pushed into lower paid jobs. Women are exclude...
The three organisations expressed support for ongoing international and regional peace initiatives in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, reaffi...
This year, IPOA’s report on police response to protests held between June and July 2025 revealed serious violations of constitutional policing standar...
While there are many hits and misses, The Eastleigh Voice highlights three key successes and three major shortcomings of his "bottom-up" leadership.
The coalition explains TFGBV as any harmful act committed, worsened, or amplified through online channels such as social media, messaging apps, or oth...
According to reports, the Israeli military struck residential compounds in Doha on 9 September, reportedly housing members of Hamas’ political bureau
The meeting, set to take place in Geneva, will be the 10th urgent debate convened by the Council since its establishment in 2006.
Human rights defenders have emphasised that the combined threats to lawyers, activists, politicians, and ordinary citizens make it imperative for the...
According to MUHURI, Muhamed was chased to the river and killed on the spot around 3 pm on Monday in what residents described as a horrifying and prev...
One of the deadliest incidents, HRW says, took place on June 21 in Manda village, where gunmen stormed a mosque and opened fire on worshipers, killing...
DCI dismissed the claims a day after Otsieno Namwaya, the Associate Director of Human Rights, spoke to The Eastleigh Voice about his alleged harassmen...
Speaking exclusively to The Eastleigh Voice on Monday, Namwaya alleged he was facing harassment and intimidation because of his work.
According to the HRW, 1,171 new graves were recorded between 2022 and 2025, the increase coinciding with the M23 armed group's offensive on Goma and B...
The group noted that the panel that was created through a Presidential Proclamation on August 6, 2025, and a gazette notice published on August 25, 20...
According to HRW, on the evening of August 23, a group of six men, believed to be plain-clothes officers, parked three vehicles at a local police stat...
President William Ruto this week gazetted a panel of experts, led by constitutional adviser Makau Mutua, to oversee compensation for victims of public...
The Commission highlighted executive overreach, weakened devolution, and rampant corruption as key obstacles preventing the country from fulfilling th...
President William Ruto's recent claims that Members of Parliament are engaged in bribery have stirred diverse opinions on his sincerity and efforts ag...
Rwanda dismissed these allegations as hastily released and lacking credible investigation, claiming they were designed to promote a predetermined narr...
Kibera Law Courts rejected an application by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (...
KHRC proposed that the mandate be given to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) and the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPO...
And if you ask O’Neill what is creating conditions akin to the Wild West, the answer is desperation. With over 1.3 million Haitians displaced and half...
The KNCHR nomination comes after Duncan Oburu Ojwang, who had been named Chairperson on August 13, 2025, declined the appointment.
Discussions examined the current state of socio-economic, political, civil and cultural rights, aiming to identify actionable strategies that place bo...
The annual report notes that in response to nationwide protests in June and July, authorities committed numerous abuses, and took steps to identify an...
The 21-page report, released by the US government on Wednesday, claims that "the human rights situation in South Africa significantly worsened during...
