Human Rights

KANANGA, DR CONGO — A military court in Democratic Republic of Congo is set to pronounce a long-awaited verdict Saturday in a mass trial over

The High Court in Botswana has upheld Fresh Standard (Pty) Limited’s exclusive rights to produce hemp and cannabis for industrial and medical purposes in the

Jihadists have killed two people and kidnapped 20 children in Nigeria’s Borno state, where a more than decade-long Islamist insurgency rages, a community leader and

The discovery of the decomposing body of five-year-old schoolgirl Hanifa Abubakar has triggered shock and outrage across Nigeria, where the hashtag #JusticeForHanifa is trending. The

NAIROBI — Kenyan police say they are sending investigators to the Yala River in western Kenya, where locals have been finding bodies tied up in

Autocratic leaders are facing a democratic backlash from their people in several countries around the world, according to the organization Human Rights Watch in its

Human Rights Watch has released its World Report for 2022, which gives a country-by-country review of human rights in more than 100 states over the

A freelance journalist for The New York Times went on trial Wednesday in Zimbabwe, accused of helping two of the newspaper’s reporters enter the country