Tag: abuse

Lockdowns and curfews to fight COVID-19 across Africa have been designed as an abuse of fundamental rights. This was the view of Mélanie Sonhaye...

Nearly half the Kenyans surveyed by government’s police watchdog said they suffered police abuse of power, according to a survey, underscoring the scale of...

Nigerian police are investigating allegations that officers sexually assaulted women arrested in nightclub raids during a crackdown on prostitution. There has been widespread public outrage...

South African soldiers serving with the United Nations' MONUSCO mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been mentioned no less...

The United Nations received 70 new allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse across all its entities and implementing partners between the start...

Efforts made by the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) to eliminate sexual abuse and exploitation (SEA) incidents by soldiers deployed on continental...

African migrants and asylum seekers in Yemen are subject to physical and sexual abuse in detention, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW)...

The number of allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by personnel serving with the United Nations dropped from 165 in 2016...

The UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan recalled a Ghanaian police unit working at one protection camp while it investigates allegations of...

Forty allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse were made during the last three months of 2017 against United Nations peacekeeping missions, agencies,...