Hundreds of families were threatened with forced eviction. LGBTI people were subjected to discrimination and harassment. A man was charged with marital rape for the first time. Repressive legislation was used to silence peaceful dissent and journalists faced arbitrary detention, torture and other...

Eswatini authorities have escalated their crackdown on human rights, continuing their assault on human rights, the rule of law and justice. The government often uses force to quash opposition and dissent to suppress dissent and legitimate concerns of the people.

Authorities across Southern Africa must immediately take action to protect girls’ rights to health, information, education, equality and to live freely from gender-based violence and discrimination, Amnesty International said today as the world continues to mark 16 Days of Activism against...

Restrictions to fundamental freedoms in the kingdom of Eswatini have taken a sharp turn towards dissent. The Eswatini government continues to ignore the constitution’s provision on human rights and uses law enforcement and the courts to crush calls for justice and accountability. Although Eswatini...

This submission was prepared for the third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Eswatini on 8 November 2021. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Eswatini in its previous UPR, including in relation to removing the restrictions which prevent the full...

Amnesty International in collaboration with Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA), Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN), Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) are writing this letter to bring to your attention the worrying restrictive COVID-19 regulations presenting...

Today members of local communities and international and local civil society organizations in a meeting in Manzini, called on the responsible government authorities in Eswatini to take immediate measures to stop the practice of forced evictions which constitutes a violation of the right to adequate...

In April 2018 at least 60 people were forcibly evicted and their homesteads demolished by armed police and bulldozers in the Malkerns town. This came after at least 180 people were forcibly evicted from Nokwane in 2014 to make way for a government-led development initiative. The threat of forced...

Amnesty International is concerned that every year, governments across Africa fail to refrain from and prevent forced evictions of hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and the land that they occupy. These evictions have been carried out in the absence of due process requirements as...

Discussing two emblematic cases, this report reveals how the human rights violation of forced evictions is rooted in Eswatini’s land governance system which fails to provide at least hundreds of people with a minimum degree of security of tenure. The report also highlights the failure of the...

Human Rights Council adopts Universal Periodic Review outcome on Swaziland. Women and young girls experiencing gender-based violence in Swaziland have few remedies available to them under domestic law. Amnesty International therefore welcomes Swaziland’s commitment to enact the Sexual Offences and...

Amnesty International welcomes the Swaziland Government’s preparedness to amend the Suppression of Terrorism Act of 2008 (STA). Amnesty International has consistently called for the STA to be repealed or immediately amended, because it is an inherently flawed piece of legislation which is...

In this document, Amnesty International provides an overview of the state of implementation of key recommendations made in the previous reviews, in 2011, of the following seven states: Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Sudan, Swaziland and Thailand.