Sierra Leone: Taylor verdict sends message that no one is above the law
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Liberia, Sierra LeoneThe conviction of Charles Taylor by the Special Court for Sierra Leone sends out a clear message to leaders the world over that no-one is...
View ArticleSierra Leone: November 2012 elections: Briefing to monitors and observers
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Sierra LeoneIn the run-up to the Presidential, Parliamentary and local elections in Sierra Leone on 17 November 2012, Amnesty International calls upon election...
View ArticleWorld: Human rights education changes women's lives in Africa
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda, WorldWhen her husband died, Alice Beti and her two children almost...
View ArticleSierra Leone: Communities in Sierra Leone turn their backs on female genital...
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Sierra LeoneWhile activists gather in London today to discuss strategies to tackle female genital mutilation, communities across Sierra Leone have been taking an...
View ArticleLiberia: International assistance and human rights protections vital for...
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra LeoneAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT AI Index: AFR 01/013/201422 September 2014...
View ArticleSierra Leone: Sierra Leone: Let pregnant girls take exams
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Sierra LeoneThe suggestion that visibly pregnant girls in Sierra Leone will be excluded from school exams this Monday will do nothing but damage their education...
View ArticleSierra Leone: Sierra Leone. Les lois et règlements relatifs à Ebola ne...
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Sierra LeoneLa Sierra Leone doit cesser de se servir des dispositions d’urgence mises en œuvre pour lutter contre Ebola comme prétexte pour restreindre les droits...
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Sierra Leone: Shamed and blamed: Pregnant girls’ rights at risk in Sierra Leone
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Sierra LeoneSierra Leone: Pregnant schoolgirls excluded from school and banned from examsRight to education of thousands of girls still under threat post Ebola...
View ArticleSierra Leone: Sierra Leone: Continued pregnancy ban in schools and failure to...
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Sierra LeoneSierra Leone must lift a deeply discriminatory ban on visibly pregnant girls attending school and taking exams, which continues to entrench gender...
View ArticleSierra Leone: Sierra Leone: One dead, two seriously injured as security...
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Sierra LeoneThe security forces killed one person and seriously injured at least two others as they opened fire on protesting students in the city of Bo today,...
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World: Shut down for speaking out - Human rights defenders at risk in West...
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, WorldAmnesty...
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World: Les voix critiques étouffées - Les défenseurs des droits humains en...
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, WorldAmnesty International lance...
View ArticleSierra Leone: Sierra Leone: Housing and environmental failures behind...
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Sierra LeoneThe terrible aftermath of the mudslides in Sierra Leone, which have left more than 3000 people homeless, grimly illustrates the human cost of the...
View ArticleBurkina Faso: New project to empower girls to defend themselves from harmful...
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Burkina Faso, Sierra LeoneBy Firmin MbalaMaria, a 13 year old survivor who lives in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso, was forced to marry a 70 year old man who...
View ArticleAlgeria: Algeria: Mass racial profiling used to deport more than 2,000...
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra LeoneThe Algerian authorities have launched a discriminatory...
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Sierra Leone: A Force for Good? Restrictions on peaceful assembly and...
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Sierra LeoneSierra Leone: New government must prioritize ending police crackdowns on peaceful protestersThe new government of Sierra Leone must start fulfilling...
View ArticleSierra Leone: Sierra Leone: Families of Police Killing Victims Renew Calls...
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Sierra LeoneBy Sabrina Mahtani, Amnesty International West Africa researcher16 August 2018, 12:39 UTC“I felt like it was me they had killed that day,” says Asatu*,...
View ArticleWorld: Rights today in Africa - 2018
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger,...
View ArticleSierra Leone: Sierra Leone: Amnesty International joins legal challenge...
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Sierra LeoneAmnesty International has joined a legal case brought by two non-governmental organizations, Equality Now and WAVES, to challenge the Sierra Leonean...
View ArticleSierra Leone: Sierra Leone: Regional court ruling gives hope to thousands of...
Source: Amnesty InternationalCountry: Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, United Republic of TanzaniaResponding to news that the regional Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) Community...
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