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African refugees and migrants fleeing war and dictatorships in search of safety on European shores.  (AFP)

‘Fortress Europe’s’ African victims

The European Union’s decade-long crackdown on African migrants is just as appalling as Donald Trump’s draconian immigration policies

(John McCann/M&G)

Gauteng education department taken to court over special needs learners

Pupils at Filadelfia Secondary School have reported neglect and sexual harassment, but the provincial department has failed to intervene

Protest against Uganda’s President Museveni in Dam Square in Amsterdam. Protesters holding banners against the country’s president Yoweri Museveni, accusing him of an authoritarian junta regime, committing genocide, torture, and killing of innocents. Banners were against EU and UK politicians while some demonstrators taped their mouths to show the silence and pressure to the press and the public opinion, hiding the corruption, killings, the and the lack of human rights. (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Bring back the UN human rights commission before Uganda’s 2026 elections

Violations of people’s human rights continue unabated in the country

Ethiopia has reportedly expanded its drone fleet to include the
Akinci combat drone, developed by Baykar Defense. (Photo by Baykar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Coordinates identified for Ethiopian drone massacre in Amhara, opening way for war crimes probe

A drone strike in Ethiopia’s Amhara region left 30 civilians dead. The Continent has pinpointed the location, marking a crucial step towards accountability

Collectives of the disappeared and human rights activists demand the return alive of Ricardo Lagunes and Antonio Díaz, community defenders who disappeared on January 15 2023. The protest in the Glorieta to the Disappeared in Mexico City. on January 22, 2023 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Luis Barron / Eyepix Group/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Global Witness report: 196 land and environmental defenders killed in 2023

The report highlights Latin America as the deadliest region, particularly Colombia, which saw a record number of killings

Kanyarutshinya, 1 November 2022: A United Nations truck burns after being set on fire when a group of civilians attacked a convoy, amid rising frustration at the advance of the M23 rebels. The attack took place after false rumours circulated that the United Nations helping to transport the rebels

IN PICTURES | On the trail of M23 rebels in eastern DRC

The East African Community has sent a regional force to prevent the situation from worsening

Well-wishers turn on their phone torches as they gather at a band-stand where a planned vigil in honour of alleged murder victim Sarah Everard was cancelled after police outlawed it due to Covid-19 restrictions, on Clapham Common, south London on March 13, 2021, – The police officer charged with murdering  young Londoner, Sarah Everard, who disappeared while walking home from a friend’s house, appeared in court on March 13, 2021, as organisers cancelled a vigil in her honour due to coronavirus restrictions. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

End violence against women and save $1.5-trillion a year

High economic cost of gender-based violence should further motivate governments to take action

In light of the alarming statistics, there are growing calls globally to eliminate all forms of violence against children, women, men and the LGBTI+ community in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual exploitation. Photo: Supplied

Digital technologies can help combat gender-based violence

Opportunities abound for tech to improve safety and assist victims.

Drought has left
nearly two million Kenyans at risk. (Photo by Noor Khamis/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Africa in brief: 11-18 September

Your Africa updates: What happened on the continent this past week

Newsmaker: The Domestic Animal Rescue Group (Darg) shelter in Hout Bay is regularly in the news. This time, allegations of maltreatment of staff have surfaced.   (Photo by David Harrison)

Do animals trump people at Darg?

Despite whistleblowers, the department of labour has not yet helped undocumented migrants at a Hout Bay animal shelter

Women living with HIV continue fight against forced sterilisation

Feminist activist groups still demand justice for human-right violations against women living with HIV

Ugandan police officers and members of Local Defence Units (LDU), a paramilitary force composed of civilians, patrol during the curfew after 7pm in Kampala, Uganda, on April, 29, 2020. (Photo by Sumy Sadurni/AFP)

Pandemic of human rights abuses haunts governments in East and Southern Africa

In a year defined by Covid-19, human rights violations, including massacres of civilians and crackdowns on opposition parties, have plagued these regions

Burundi’s leading independent newspaper Iwacu once asked if Gervais Ndirakobuca wasn’t simply an “untouchable suspect”. (Jennifer Huxta/AFP via Getty Images)

Burundi’s new security minister has a long and bloody past

Gervais Ndirakobuca is under international sanctions for human rights violations — abductions, disappearances, murder, turture — when people protested against the president…

(David Harrison/M&G)

Pandemic-induced human rights violations a double tragedy to humanity

The conflation of human rights violations and a pandemic leave the most vulnerable marginalised. Equitable and democratic societies are needed to fight against this

According to the Commission for Gender Equality’s latest report, this practice is a direct attack on HIV-positive women.

Forced sterilisation is ‘inhuman’

According to the Commission for Gender Equality’s latest report, this practice is a direct attack on HIV-positive women

(John McCann/M&G)

Unfinished business: We need self-examination to heal from apartheid

Physical and psychological violence will continue unless we self-reflect on our apartheid scars

Photo: File

Boycott of Israeli varsities is counter to academic freedom

‘Open letter’ reveals the Orwellian depths to which the radical anti-Israel lobby is willing to descend in order to stand reality on its head

Bid to block Burundi from European Union trade pact with other East African countries

At risk are other economies in the region and alternatives are being sought to allow trade.

Wang Yu is the latest human rights lawyer in China to be arrested in an unprecedented crackdown.

The case of Wang Yu, emblem of China’s human rights crackdown

The detention of Wang Yu was the opening salvo in an unprecedented crackdown on China’s human rights lawyers.

King Mswati III. (AFP)

Editorial: SA complicit in Swazi rot

It is a scandal that South Africa is doing nothing to rein in Swaziland’s King Mswati and his despotic lieutenants.