Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

Newsletter
13 Jan, 2021

Forced Disappearance

Canberra’s Quiet Test in Vientiane

Human Rights Watch has urged Canberra to be unusually direct: demand investigations into disappearances, challenge the practice of “swap-mart” arrangements with neighbours, and press Laos…

17 November, 2025

Growing Outrage in Kenya Over Alleged Kidnappings of Government Critics

The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) has raised serious concerns, revealing that at least 82 individuals have been abducted since anti-government demonstrations erupted…

30 December, 2024

Kidnappings of Hundreds of People in Colombia

But despite the country’s efforts many of the structural changes promised by the accord remain unfulfilled.

25 November, 2024

Mexico/Forced disappearance

Disappearance of 43 students and teachers.

26 September, 2024

Kenya/Dozens are abducted or missing

Protesters and rights groups blame state security agencies for the extrajudicial arrests – a claim denied by both President William Ruto and Kenya’s interior minister.

11 July, 2024

schoolchildren kidnapping/Nigeria.

No group has claimed responsibility, but locals blame bandits who often carry out mass killings, and abductions for ransom.

11 March, 2024

From Mexico to Gaza

One woman decided to use her crafts to keep and honor the memory of a Palestinian family, that of Aljazeera Gaza bureau chief, Wael al-Dahdouh.

28 January, 2024

Mexico/disappeared students

Earlier this year, an international panel of experts looking into the case criticized active investigations, saying it had received incomplete information and that the Defense…

26 September, 2023