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Eswatini: Fourth U.S. Third-Country Removal Operation Raises Fresh Human Rights Concerns

These removals, part and parcel of the Trump administration’s cruel and racist anti-immigrant policies, tear families apart and traumatize both…

July 10, 2026

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(Reuters)

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Eswatini: Supreme Court Ruling on Legal Access Offers Limited Relief for U.S. Deportees

The ruling is an important step towards upholding the right to access a lawyer for people who have been unlawfully…

April 10, 2026

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Eswatini: Arrival of Four More Men Under U.S. Unlawful Removal Deal

This latest unlawful transfer makes clear that the U.S. is continuing to send people to Eswatini under a secretive third-country removal arrangement.

March 13, 2026

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Eswatini: Education Minister’s Anti-LGBTI Remarks Risk Fueling Discrimination in Schools

Threatening students with expulsion on the basis of their real or perceived sexual orientation is discriminatory and profoundly harmful.

January 30, 2026

A collage of images of Mthandeni Dube and Mduduzi Bacede Mabuza, both wearing suits and ties, with

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Eswatini: Authorities Must Unconditionally Release Mthandeni Dube and Bacede Mabuza

Eswatini authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Bacede Mabuza and quash his and Mthandeni Dube’s unfair convictions.

November 18, 2025

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Eswatini: Hunger Strike of Cuban Man Deported from US Exposes Human Cost of Unlawful Transfer Arrangement

Roberto Mosquera del Peral’s hunger strike is a stark warning the secret transfer arrangement between the US and Eswatini.

October 24, 2025

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Eswatini: Repatriation of Jamaican National Must Be Followed by Justice for All US Deportees

Eswatini authorities must disclose why they held Jamaican national Orville Etoria without charge for more than two months after the…

September 25, 2025

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Eswatini: Amnesty International Designates Arbitrarily Detained MPs as Prisoners of Conscience

Their continued arbitrary detention shows Eswatini’s deepening climate of repression and misuse of the justice system to punish those who…

July 25, 2025

Wearing suits and ties, and looking with slight smiles into the camera, Mduduzi Maceda Mabuza and Mthandeni Dube stand in the dock in a courtroom.

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Eswatini: Authorities Must Ensure Access to Justice for Opposition MP Bacede Mabuza

Eswatini authorities are failing to safeguard the independence and integrity of the country’s courts by delaying hearing Mduduzi Bacede Mabuza’s…

July 14, 2025

Two people walk among the burning rubbles
Two people walk among the burning rubbles in the Koudoukou market, in the PK5 district in Bangui on December 26, 2019, after clashes erupted when traders took up arms to oppose taxes levied by militia groups. - At least 11 people were killed in fighting between militiamen and traders in a restive district of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, two security officials and an imam said on December 26, 2019. The security sources said between 11 and 14 people died after clashes erupted late on December 25, 2019, while the imam, Awad Al Karim, said "16 bodies" had been brought to the local Ali Babolo mosque. (Photo by FLORENT VERGNES / AFP) (Photo by FLORENT VERGNES/AFP via Getty Images)

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Armed conflicts and state repression in Africa fuel cocktail of human rights violations

HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICA: Protesters across sub-Saharan Africa have braved bullets and beatings to defend their rights in the face…

April 7, 2020

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Eswatini: Forced evictions expose flawed land laws as hundreds face homelessness

The Eswatini government must halt forced evictions which have left hundreds of people homeless and pushed them deeper into poverty,…

August 30, 2018