Article 19

Strengthening community radios

Governments must protect women victims of violence during the coronavirus pandemic

10 December 2020 0

ARTICLE 19 West Africa called today on governments to do more to protect women from the most pervasive breach of human rights: violence against women. […]

Guinea: Crackdown on post-electoral protests by security forces must be investigated

3 November 2020 0

ARTICLE 19 strongly condemns excessive use of force by security forces and the riots by supporters of political parties in the aftermath of the presidential […]

Nigeria :Crackdown on journalists suffocates press freedom

2 November 2020 0

ARTICLE 19 reveals today in a briefing a significant increase in assaults, arrests and prosecution of the media in Nigeria compared to 2019, with 51 incidents in 2020 […]

CÔTE D’IVOIRE: The Government must lift the ban on protest ahead of the presidential election

23 October 2020 0

ARTICLE 19 strongly condemns the decision of the Government of Côte d’Ivoire to extend the ban on public protest until 1 November 2020. This ban means no […]

Nigeria: Stop the killings of protesters by security forces and end impunity

22 October 2020 0

Responding to the news that Nigerian soldiers shot at peaceful and unarmed protesters in Lagos on 20 October, Fatou Jagne Senghore, Regional Director of ARTICLE […]