Meron Estefanos: I See People Suffering And Its Just My Duty...
Meron Estefanos works tirelessly to aid and raise awareness about the plight of Eritrean refugees. The Swedish-based Eritrean human rights activist and journalist hosts...
Israel Is An Apartheid State
In our second op-ed for Israeli Apartheid Week, ALIE KOMAPE takes a look at how Israel’s racism and apartheid tactics oppress and violate not...
Empire Files: 10 Shocking Ways Israel Mistreats Africans
The Zionist state is not only about the creation of a Jewish state but also about creating a white supremacist state. Notwithstanding their...
Oxfam’s Admission of Sexual Abuse In Haiti Points To Deeply Entrenched...
The international NGO sector is a multibillion dollar industry and one vital to the survival, stabilisation and reconstruction of communities globally, but what happens...
ADF: Home Affairs’ Comments On Asylum Seekers Are Xenophobic
The African Diaspora Forum (ADF) read with shock and dismay the quotes attributed to the Home Affairs Director of asylum seeker management, Mandla Madumisa...
From Libya to Israel, the African migrant faces a dire plight
From the shores of the continent to Europe and Israel, there is no group of people around the world who are more abused and...
Sub-Saharan migrants traded like merchandise in Libya
Black bodies are being traded at auctions in Libya, and the world has been slow to respond. It’s become such a part of Libyan...
The bad news for Zimbabwe: military coups rarely end well
The ongoing situation in Zimbabwe might not technically be classified as a coup - at least according to the Zimbabwean army and other officials....
Pretoria protest for Rohingya rights gets messy
About 500 people gathered outside the Myanmar Embassy in Pretoria on Friday to protest the ongoing violence against the Rohingya Muslims. But the protest...
SA needs a stronger stance on the Rohingya Crisis
Over three hundred thousand Rohingya have been displaced since August 25, and there have been reports of indiscriminate killing and the burning of their villages....
Anti-immigrant laws are on the rise on Europe and the USA
In some Western countries, anti-immigrant and xenophobic sentiments start at the top. The Daily Vox team rounds up a few states with problematic anti-immigrant...
Danish minister says giving Africans birth control will limit migration to...
It wasn’t enough that French President Macron believes Africa is a country, now a Danish minister believes contraceptives are the cure for Africa’s migration...
South Africa’s borders may become even more unwelcoming to asylum seekers
Asylum seekers may face greater difficulties entering South Africa once Parliament enacts legislation to create a new agency that will have full control of...
Palestinian young people’s future hangs in the balance
ActionAid SA's Katherine Robinson reflects on her recent visit to Palestine and the struggle of Palestinian youth. She says that this Youth Day, it...
Still no peace in the CAR, a year after election
It has been a year since Faustin Archange Touadera was elected president of the Central African Republic (CAR) after the civil war and violence...
MSF field worker draws parallels between xenophobic attitudes in SA and...
Kate Stegeman is a South African field worker for Doctors Without Borders (MSF), a non-governmental organisation that delivers emergency aid to those in need....
Turned away from hospitals for 10 years: A Malawian asylum seeker...
Peter Namwewe – an asylum seeker from Malawi – has had pain throughout his body for almost 10 years. Thinking it was caused by...
Special Editorial: South Africa needs to reconsider diplomatic ties with Myanmar
A new UN report released last week found the Myanmar government has murdered, raped and tortured Rohingya civilians in a string of brutal assaults...
Five practical ways you can help the people of Yemen
For more than 22 months, a coalition of Arab states led by Saudi Arabia have been pounding Yemen, the Middle East's poorest country, with...
30 things you need to know about the Palestine-Israel conflict
There is no shortage of debate around the semantics of the Palestine-Israel conflict. SELIN KARA, a British-born human rights activist, put together this useful...
