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Africa’s climate crisis is a legal crisis too: what are states’ duties under human rights law?
A landmark climate case before the African Court asks what African states must do to protect human rights, phase out fossil ...
Africans continue to rely on both formal and informal justice systems to resolve legal disputes, and many question whether ...
On 16 June in 1976, Soweto students marched in protest against Apartheid inspired non-inclusive education system and were met with a brutal police response. The event made a lasting mark, and the ...
The third Women’s Climate Assembly (WCA) took place recently in Dakar, Senegal, bringing together roughly 150 women activists and community leaders from 14 West and Central African countries. The ...
In July 2025, the International Court of Justice held its first hearings on states’ climate responsibilities in decades. A lead judge described climate change as an “urgent and existential threat,” ...
As they celebrate the Africa Faith and Justice Network's 40th anniversary, the leadership of the Catholic pan-African advocacy organization say they've survived and thrived since 1983 because of the ...
A sign reading “Stop GBV” highlights fight against gender-based violence. [File courtesy] Justice systems across Africa remain inaccessible, costly, and unsafe for most survivors of sexual and ...
A former justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa will be the first international judge to speak at the University of Colorado Boulder Law School’s annual John Paul Stevens Lecture on ...
At the close of an inaugural summit on climate change hosted this week by the African Union and the government of Kenya, activists who had demanded more than carbon credits and other glossy solutions ...
(Nairobi) – The African Union Commission’s failure to advance justice for the countless victims of atrocities in South Sudan raises concerns about the regional body’s commitment to accountability, 34 ...
Justice systems across Africa remain inaccessible, costly, and unsafe for most survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (GBV), effectively denying women and girls legal redress despite decades of ...
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