At the end of 2016 Amnesty International published a report titled Ethiopia Offline: Evidence of Social Media Blocking and Internet Censorship in Ethiopia. This report documented how social media...
By Adotei Akwei and Miho Mitobe In late November AI released a report on human rights violations committed by Nigerian security forces in the southeast of the country. The Indigenous People of Bi...
Next month Congress will get to interview nominees for the incoming Trump administration. These cabinet nominees are important indicators as to whether his administration will be uphold and prote...
This is Ethiopia’s third stint on the UNSC and in a congratulatory message, Ethiopian Foreign Minister, Tedros Adhanom, said the election is a clear indication that the country has won the resp...
Sub-Saharan Africa is facing a growing trend of evaporating political space. Non-governmental organizations are being heavily and often violently restricted, and newspapers, bloggers and other vo...
Following last week’s release of the 2016 Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Amnesty International USA conducted a review of the reports and offered an analysis of t...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/us/is-the-u-s-state-department-understating-human-rights-abuses/
Last week’s announcement that the US plans to deploy military advisors to assist the Nigerian government fight Boko Haram and is considering restarting the training of an infantry battalion, de...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/africa/turing-a-blind-eye-on-impunity-in-nigeria/
and we all have an obligation to help. Under international law, states have an obligation to help people fleeing persecution by not sending them back in to danger.
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/refugees/everyone-has-the-right-to-seek-asylum/
The annual country reports by the State Department are a potentially valuable roadmap to guide U.S. foreign and domestic policy. But what they omit speaks volumes.
by Adotei Akwei and Bridget Duru March 28, 2015 was a huge turning point for Nigeria. For the first time in the country’s history, the incumbent did not win the presidential election. General M...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/africa/nigeria-turning-the-page-or-more-of-the-same/