In Nigeria’s Katsina state, more than 300 schoolboys from the Government Science secondary school were abducted by the jihadist group, Boko Haram. The event occurred on 11 December 2020, and a week later, 344 boys were released in the neighbouring Zamfara state. Some of the missing pupils have still not
In December, several human rights groups wrote a letter to the incoming Biden administration requesting changes in U.S. foreign policy to Bahrain. 18 organizations, including Americans for Democracy and Human Rights and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, provided a blueprint on how to mitigate violence in Bahrain. According
A small boat laden with explosives rammed an oil tanker at the port of Jeddah along the coast of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia on December 14th. The attack, which no one has taken credit for, struck the Singapore-flagged BW Rhine, causing hull damage, a fire, and a small
A report released by an ombudsman on December 17th, has revealed that the lockdown of nine public housing towers in the Australian state of Victoria this summer breached human rights laws. The lockdown, which took effect suddenly on July 4th, left more than 3,000 residents confined to their apartments without
