The Foundation for the Healing of the African Slave Era Atrocities has launched a global proclamation calling for healing, ...

Climate change lawsuits have become a new way for countries to assert their rights against actions that degrade the environment. But African countries have yet to fully exploit this route. In the ...

A landmark climate case is being heard by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The request was brought by the Pan African Lawyers Union and other African civil society organisations.

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 ...

Chief Justice Emeritus Alfonse Owiny-Dollo (second right), Zambia's Chief Justice Dr Mumba Malila (centre) and Deputy Chief ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

African civil society, human rights groups, environmental groups, governments and the private sector stand firm in their commitment to align Africa’s efforts in combating energy poverty and fostering ...

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 ...

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 ...