Once, the U.S. government used its influence to prevent human rights abuses overseas. Now, Washington is practically silent.

Tanzanian security forces stripped Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire naked, raped her and smeared her with excrement while ...

Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi and Ugandan journalist Agather Atuhaire have narrated how a simple act of solidarity ...

US-based philanthropist Mwangi Mukami demands justice after alleged abuse of activists Mwangi and Atuhaire, urging regional ...

Boniface Mwangi and Agather Atuhaire had travelled to Tanzania in an act of solidarity with opposition leader Tundu Lissu, ...

Tanzania's government is facing growing accusations of repression after prominent human rights defenders say they were beaten ...

Ugandan journalist and human rights activist Agather Atuhaire has shared a disturbing account of abuse and mistreatment ...

Human rights groups are now asking Kenyan and Ugandan legislators to hold their governments accountable over the torture of ...

Opposition activists from Kenya allege that they were detained and tortured in neighboring Tanzania. Leaders there don’t seem to like that cross-border economic cooperation has extended to human ...

A Kenyan activist has told the BBC that he is "struggling to be alive" after allegedly being sexually tortured in detention ...

A Kenyan and a Ugandan human rights activist who were detained in Tanzania for several days last month said on Monday that ...

Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi and Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire - who was given an "International Woman of Courage" award by the US State Department last year - said they had traveled to ...