African children’s rights Stories
In 2024, the findings show that over 311 million children in the region lived in households surviving on less than $3 (Sh388) a day, the revised globa...
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.
By taking tangible action, the groups say, the government can ensure that all Kenyans enjoy equal access to citizenship documents, regardless of their...
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.
CA Director General David Mugonyi said the revocations would take effect within a week, targeting broadcasters found to be in breach of regulatory req...
Large numbers of students remain out of school because of mass displacement, limited teaching staff, lack of learning materials, and restricted access...
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...
Higher electricity output from the dam could expand rural internet access in Ethiopia and, if Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt cooperate, also aid flood con...
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 African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights cited recent agreements signed with Rwanda and Uganda that would allow Washington to transfer both...
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...
According to Hussein, the implementation of the Constitution promulgated in August 2010 has been fraught with challenges, as the state has consistentl...
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.
