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Cameroon on Monday is marking ​​five years since protests organised by the Cameroon Renaissance Movement (MRC) were violently repressed by the authorities. More than 500 people were arbitrarily arrested, 36 of whom remain in jail. As the country gears up for presidential elections, human rights group Amnesty International is calling…

A U.N. expert reports that repression in Russia is escalating, targeting civilians, journalists, and Ukrainian prisoners of war

Human rights group says hundreds of skeletons found exposed or buried just below ground during research into killings of civilians

An Egyptian human rights lawyer called the theft ‘an alarm bell’ for the government

The Kigali Worlds are a milestone for African cycling but Rwanda's human rights record could prove their millstone.

Justice Secretary David Lammy said human rights laws were being abused to make it harder to deport migrants,

United Nations human rights experts also condemned the strikes earlier this week, labeling them "extrajudicial executions"

The UK government announced Friday it would replace controversial legislation designed to draw a line under issues stemming from three decades of violence in Northern Ireland, paving the way for investigations into killings to restart.

Some textbooks were written by women while others were deemed ‘incompatible with Islamic sharia’

A skilled and persuasive human rights lawyer who fought for civil liberties in the face of over-reaching anti-terror law

An independent international commission of inquiry appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council has released a report saying that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.