By Tola Akindipe, Tommaso Poli, Udita Sharma, Giulia Carlini
Each week students at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre prepare an overview of the past week’s human rights related news stories from around the world.
- International
Women’s rights threatened by fundamentalism and the far right, study finds – ABC News
- Africa
Central African Republic’s message to UN: ‘The only thing we want is peace’ – UN News
Africa eyes senior Trump envoy visit for US policy hints – Reuters
Tanzania arrests and detains activists on trumped up charges of ‘promoting homosexuality’! – Reprisals for Challenging the Government – PanAfrica ILGA
Peacekeeper, workers killed in attack on UN missions in Mali – CNN
Militants who killed 23 at Mogadishu hotel used intelligence service ID cards– The Guardian