Yesterday the country woke up to yet another day of commemoration, marking 35 years since the famous Saba Saba Movement, first held on July 7, 1990. The movement began as a protest, demanding multiparty democracy against the then-government’s autocratic regime. Despite the protest being banned, key opposition leaders still convened in Nairobi. This resulted in [...]

The Constitutional Court of Thailand suspended the nation’s prime minster (PM) Tuesday, ordering her to stop performing her duties following allegations of misconduct and serious ethical violations tied to a leaked phone conversation with a senior Cambodian leader. Thirty-six senators filed a petition with the court alleging that PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra failed to fulfill her [...]

One year down the line, and the streets of Nairobi are still marred with the blood of youth protesters and activists. As Kenyans mark a year after the 2024 Finance Bill protest, a day to remember the souls that succumbed to police brutality then, the degree of police brutality and the lack of government accountability [...]

The Special Prosecution Against Corruption (SPAK) in Albania ordered the arrest of the capital’s mayor Erion Veliaj on Monday by the forces of the Investigation Bureau for passive corruption and money laundering. Veliaj first took office as Tirana mayor in 2015 and was re-elected to his third term in May 2023 under the ruling Socialist [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered a judgment on Thursday finding a violation of the right to life in the case of a 45-year-old woman suffering from an intellectual disability who died while residing in a state-run Hungarian care home. The court cited an inadequate response to alarming conditions in its decision. The [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday decried an Iraqi draft law that would permit marriages of children as young as nine years old. The draft, an amendment to Iraq’s 1959 Personal Status Law, was officially brought before the Iraqi Parliament on August 4, 2023 by Ra’ad al-Maliki. It seeks to amend Article 7(1) of the [...]

UN experts in Geneva issued a press release urging the Australian government to immediately fulfill its commitment to compensate the families of 39 murdered victims of war crimes in Afghanistan in adherence to International Human Rights Law (IHRL) and International Humanitarian Law (IHL) on Wednesday. A military inquiry that was conducted in 2020 indicated that [...]

At least 93 people have been killed in Bangladesh as fierce clashes took place in different cities across the country on Sunday, according to local media. Protesters demanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation clashed with pro-government supporters, leading to the 93 deaths, which included 14 policemen according to The Daily Star. These protests started as [...]

The Kenya Court of Appeal at Nairobi delivered a judgement Wednesday rendering the controversial Finance Act 2023 unconstitutional. The Finance Bill 2023 was tabled before the National Assembly on May 4, 2023. It was later assented to by the president on June 26, 2023 and became Finance Act 2023. The Act amended 12 laws, eliciting 11 [...]

Civil society organizations (CSOs) in Kenya on Saturday condemned the excessive use of force by the police during the recent wave of anti-government protests in the country. The CSOs called for government accountability in law enforcement and the budget-making process. In a joint statement, the CSOs denied allegations by the Kenyan authorities of funding the [...]