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February 20, 2025 News Release

Mali: Armed Islamist Attack on Convoy Kills 34 Civilians

Inadequate Protection by Warring Parties

One of the buses burned in the attack, in Kobe, Mali, February 7, 2025.
February 13, 2025 News Release

Mali: AU Action Needed To End Crackdown on Opposition, Dissent

Enforced Disappearances, Politically Motivated Detention

Abdoulaye Maiga, Malian minister of territorial administration, speaks at the COP27 UN Climate Summit, November 8, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
February 4, 2025 Dispatches

Sahel States’ Withdrawal from ECOWAS Undermines Accountability

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger End Citizens’ Access to West African Regional Court

 West African leaders before an Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, August 10, 2023.
January 16, 2025 News Release

West Africa: Civilians Unprotected in Conflicts

Crackdowns on Dissent, Civic Space; Fewer Opportunities for Justice

The leaders of Niger, Gen. Abdourahamane Tiani (C), Mali, Col. Assimi Goita (L), and Burkina Faso, Capt. Ibrahim Traore (R), show the documents of the Confederation of Sahel States, which they signed during their first summit in Niamey, Niger, July 6, 2024.
December 12, 2024 Report

Mali: Atrocities by the Army and Wagner Group

Islamist Armed Groups Responsible for Killing Civilians, Arson

Screenshot of a video posted on social media on November 9, 2024 that Human Rights Watch analyzed and geolocated to the village of Allaye-Kokolo, located on the National Road 15 between Mopti and Bandiagara. The video shows armed men, some on motorbikes, on the road while buildings are burning around. A men can be heard speaking in Fulfulde, saying “God is great, Allaye-Kokolo is burning.”
November 6, 2024 Dispatches

New Mali Law Disastrous for LGBT People

Suspend Discriminatory and Stigmatizing Criminal Offense

The monument of peace in Bamako, Mali, September 2024.
June 26, 2024 News Release

Mali: ICC Unseals Arrest Warrant for Armed Group Leader

Authorities Need to Investigate, Prosecute Grave Crimes Committed by All Sides

Iyad Ag Ghaly, left, with Djibrille Bassole.
June 25, 2024 Dispatches

Mali’s Junta Renews Assault on Political Opposition

Release, Drop Charges Against 11 People Wrongfully Arrested

The leader of Mali's junta, Lt. Col. Assimi Goita, center, in Bamako, Mali, September 22, 2022.
June 11, 2024 Dispatches

Let’s Put Play on the Agenda

First International Day of Play Highlights Essential Importance for Children

 A group of children play in a camp for internally displaced people in Sevare, Mali, February 28, 2020.
May 16, 2024 Statement

Oral Statement at the 79th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights

May 8, 2024 Report

Mali: Islamist Armed Groups, Ethnic Militias Commit Atrocities

Provide Accountability, Improve Protection for Civilians

A road going from Mali to Burkina Faso
April 12, 2024 News Release

Mali: Junta Suspends Political Parties, Associations

Action Undermines Fundamental Freedoms

Abdoulaye Maiga, Malian minister of territorial administration, speaks at the COP27 UN Climate Summit, November 8, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
April 11, 2024 Statement

Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls in Sport

March 28, 2024 Report

Mali: Army, Wagner Group Atrocities Against Civilians

Investigations Needed Into Indiscriminate Drone Strikes, Summary Killings

Mali’s Foreign Affairs Minister Abdoulaye Diop (left) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a joint press conference following talks in Moscow, February 28, 2024.
March 20, 2024 Commentary

No Business as Usual at Italy’s G7 Africa Meeting

People sit on the ground of the overcrowded migrant reception center on Lampedusa, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea, on September 16, 2023.

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