Women’s lives in South Africa continue to be scarred by violence or the threat of violence in under-policed, unsafe communities and in their homes. The physical ...
Domestic violence remains a pervasive problem for women in South Africa. Laws have been passed to protect women’s right to be free from domestic violence. However ...
Women in South Africa, particularly black women, are disproportionately affected by poverty, unemployment and the HIV pandemic. Where transport costs prevent rural ...
Amnesty International today said that those displaced by May’s xenophobic violence in South Africa face serious threats to their safety, as the last remaining camps ...
In May 2008 a wave of violent attacks against individuals, identified on the basis of their perceived nationality, ethnicity or migrant status, led to the displacement ...
Nearly 80 organisations, including a number of Amnesty International'sAfrican sections, have come together to show solidarity with the peopleof Zimbabwe.
Amnesty International today condemned the forcible removal by police of more than 700 people, including refugees and asylum-seekers, from the Glenanda ("Rifle Range ...