Human Rights Watch: Rwanda Should Stop Locking Up the Poor
December 22, 2020
December 22, 2020
NEW YORK, Dec. 22 (TNSRep) -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:
The African Court on Human and People's Rights has held that states' laws enabling the detention of people who, often because of poverty, are forced to live on the street, violate human rights law.
On December 4, the regional human rights court delivered an opinion upholding the rights of people deemed "vagrants" by the state. The opinion, issued in response to a request by the . . .
The African Court on Human and People's Rights has held that states' laws enabling the detention of people who, often because of poverty, are forced to live on the street, violate human rights law.
On December 4, the regional human rights court delivered an opinion upholding the rights of people deemed "vagrants" by the state. The opinion, issued in response to a request by the . . .