Hundreds of Tunisians are in jail for writing checks they were unable to pay in a debt imprisonment practice that destroys households and businesses in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch warned. In a 41-page report, HRW outlined the defaults of the archaic legislation on checks with insufficient funds, adding that sending insolvent people […]
A brutal three-day assault by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has left hundreds dead in villages south of Khartoum, marking another tragic episode in the country’s ongoing civil conflict. While the Emergency Lawyers network reports over 200 casualties, the army-backed government claims a death toll exceeding 430, including children. The attacks targeted the villages of […]
Amnesty International’s 2023 report titled “State of the World’s Human Rights” says that Africa, on the whole, continues to make progress toward respect for individual rights from speech to political association, though it paints a grim picture of Southern Africa, highlighting troubling abuses in Eswatini, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Africa has shown “limited […]
