https://www.bizcommunity.com/414/828.html East Africa Human Rights Law news 15 Human Rights Law news - East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/res/img/logo.gif https://www.bizcommunity.com/414/828.html en-us Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:16:58 +0200 https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/apple-faces-new-lawsuit-over-congo-conflict-minerals-396458a A US-based advocacy group has filed a lawsuit in Washington, accusing Apple of using minerals linked to conflict and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda despite the iPhone maker's denials. 1-263733 Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:57:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Human Rights Law East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/meta-can-be-sued-in-kenya-over-posts-related-to-ethiopia-violence-court-rules-581650a A Kenyan court has ruled that Facebook's parent company Meta can be sued in the East African country over its alleged role in promoting content that led to ethnic violence in neighbouring Ethiopia, a plaintiff in the case said. 1-256716 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 09:40:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Human Rights Law East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/220/148/239155.html The HIV/Aids treatment centre in Kampala is almost empty, days after Uganda enacted one of the most draconian anti-gay laws on Earth. 1-239155 Fri, 09 Jun 2023 10:06:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Human Rights Law East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/220/717/238844.html Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signed one of the world's toughest anti-LGBTQ laws, including the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality", drawing Western condemnation and risking sanctions from aid donors. 1-238844 Tue, 30 May 2023 11:23:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Human Rights Law East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.co.ke/Article/111/549/238060.html A Kenyan cult leader accused of ordering his followers to starve themselves to death appeared in court on Tuesday, 2 May 2023, as investigators searched for more bodies in a forest in eastern Kenya where 101 corpses have already been unearthed. 1-238060 Tue, 02 May 2023 16:46:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Human Rights Law East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/220/717/238043.html Uganda's parliament on Tuesday, 2 May 2023, passed one of the world's strictest anti-LGBTQ bills mostly unchanged, including provision for long jail terms and the death penalty, after the president requested some parts of the original legislation be toned down. 1-238043 Tue, 02 May 2023 13:11:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Human Rights Law East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/220/828/237996.html Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has asked lawmakers to make clear in a proposed anti-homosexuality law that it is not criminal to merely identify as gay, as part of an attempt to tone down a bill that has drawn international condemnation. 1-237996 Fri, 28 Apr 2023 12:25:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Human Rights Law East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.co.ke/Article/111/849/237764.html For Kenya's lesbians and gays, a supreme court ruling allowing the rights body that represents their interests to register as a non-governmental organisation has turned out to be a mixed blessing. 1-237764 Tue, 18 Apr 2023 16:35:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Human Rights Law East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/220/638/236392.html A French court on Tuesday, 28 February 2023, could order oil major TotalEnergies to halt the development of an east Africa pipeline in a landmark case based on legislation that makes big companies liable for risks to the environment and human rights. 1-236392 Tue, 28 Feb 2023 09:21:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Human Rights Law East Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/220/828/224930.html Judges at the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday ruled that Uganda must pay $325m in reparations to the Democratic Republic of Congo for its role in conflicts in Congo's resource-rich Ituri province. 1-224930 Thu, 10 Feb 2022 12:01:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Human Rights Law East Africa