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Africa

15 Jan

[Sanmay Moitra is a research assistant at ‘Human Rights in Practice’ and an Advanced LLM candidate at Leiden University. He has previously studied international law at the University of Oxford and Georgetown University.] The UN’s Human Rights chief – Volker Turk – delivered a scathing condemnation on 14th November, of the international community’s inaction on the situation in Sudan noting that...

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06 Jan

[Junius O. Williams is a third-year J.D. candidate at NYU School of Law, where he is an Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ) Scholar and a Salzburg Lloyd N. Cutler Fellow] On 9 September 2025, Ethiopia inaugurated the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (“the GERD”), Africa’s largest hydropower project and the culmination of over a decade of planning and construction. At...

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23 Dec

[Bruno Biazatti is a doctoral researcher at the Luxembourg Centre for European Law, University of Luxembourg, and a doctoral student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil] On 24 July, the Trial Chamber V (TC-V) of the International Criminal Court (ICC or the Court) issued its judgment in the Yekatom and Ngaïssona case, convicting both co-defendants of war crimes and...

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22 Dec

[International Committee on Nigeria (ICON), is a multi-stakeholder nonprofit / NGO working to secure a future for all Nigerians, where rule-of-law, justice, religious freedom and constitutional rights are secured for all Nigerians, regardless of religion, tribe, or location. Nadeshda Jayakody is a legal advisor and Isabelle Bienfait is a programme coordinator at eyeWitness to Atrocities, an NGO that supports human rights...

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22 Dec

[Jason Beckett is an associate professor of law at the American University in Cairo] Introduction The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) recently released an analysis of Egypt’s proposed budget for 2025-6, titled, “Egypt in the Grip of Debt”. It is a gloomy read, documenting Egypt’s ongoing immiseration, but concludes with a strangely sentimental optimism. “After all, the state’s role is not...

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05 Nov

[Coline Minguet is an FNRS-funded PhD candidate at UCLouvain researching reparations for victims of sexual violence in armed conflicts under international law, with prior experience as a Brussels-based lawyer and academic background in international and European law] During its 80th Ordinary Session in 2024, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the “ACHPR”) adopted its Communication No. 700/18—IHRDA & Ors...

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30 Oct

[Christiana Essie Sagay is a doctoral candidate at the University of Ottawa, Canada] I take God, beg you, cut soap for me. Show me the way. Abeg! Anchoring Kemi Adetiba’s 2025 Netflix crime thriller in its entirety, this colloquial Nigerian phrase signals an impassioned plea to learn the means and methods of success, and, more than that, an invitation to extend the...

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23 Sep

[Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Research of law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Richard Obeng Mensah is a Lecturer of law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.] When the water cannons roll in and the tear gas clears, what remains of the constitutional right to protest? Protest policing across democracies has become...

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22 Sep

[Sithuthukile Mkhize, Head of Political and Civil Rights at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of Witwatersrand. Omhle Ntshingila is project coordinator of the Right2Protest Project housed at University of Witwatersrand.] South Africa’s democracy post-apartheid, which is popularly referred to as the period after the country’s first, fully-democratic elections in 1994, is often celebrated and praised for being one of the most advanced because of its...

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18 Aug

[Timothy Fish Hodgson is a senior legal adviser for ESC Rights at the International Commission of Jurists (Africa). Valentin Büchi is a legal intern with the International Commission of Jurists (Africa).] On 23 April 2025, the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa (SCA) handed down a judgment in which it found that an eviction order against waste reclaimers had to fully consider...

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18 Aug

[Petronella Mukaindo is an associate legal adviser at the International Commission of Jurists (Africa). Timothy Fish Hodgson is a senior legal adviser for ESC Rights at the International Commission of Jurists (Africa).] On 20 December 2024, the South African Constitutional Court handed down its judgment in O’Brien N.O. v Minister of Defence and Military Veterans and Others 2024 ZACC 30, affirming that...

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12 Aug

[Frédéric Mégret is the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, McGill University and the James S. Carpentier Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School] In times of great pain, remembrance, especially when memory is both complex and selective, is an indispensable resource of contextualization. Between 1967 and 1970, as many as 2 million members of the...

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