Michèle Eken

Human rights lawyer; Senior Researcher at Amnesty International

[DeSmog @DeSmog]

🔴 NEW 🔴

UK Supermarket Seabass Linked to Devastating Overfishing in Senegal

✍️ @hazel_healy and Brigitte Wear

https://t.co/Y8SwmyL3EU

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Kenyan women hired as domestic workers in Saudi Arabia endure gruelling, abusive and discriminatory working conditions, which often amount to forced labour and human trafficking.

@amnesty new report, out now 👇 https://t.co/3zcfNd4aAP

[Amnesty International Ghana @amnestyghana]

🚨Join Amnesty International Ghana on X this Saturday, 26th April 2025 (7:00-8:00 PM GMT) for another episode of our "We All Dey Inside" X Spaces series following our #BrandedForLife report launch. Once more, our distinguished panelists will tackle pathways to ending witchcraft accusations in Ghana, exploring root causes, community education strategies, and policy reforms to end these human rights violations against women. Be part of this crucial discussion to advance advocacy for justice. #EndWitchcraftAccusations #WeAllDeyInside #AmnestyGhana

[Amnesty West & Central Africa @AmnestyWARO]

#SierraLeone: Authorities must repeal colonial vagrancy laws following historic #ECOWAS ruling.

We welcome this historic judgment, which is a step forward in protecting the human rights of some of the most vulnerable people.

Read more on our website 👇

https://t.co/kU0HnL2P7P

[Amnesty West & Central Africa @AmnestyWARO]

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On 30 September Musa Sheriff, a journalist of The Voice Newspaper was detained and charged with false publication and broadcasting for an article discussing president Barrow’s potential pick as a successor. His colleague Momodou Darboe received the same charge.
#Gambia

[Amnesty West & Central Africa @AmnestyWARO]

#Gambia
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We are concerned about the continuous use of vague criminal legal provisions to stifle freedom of expression, and call on the government to drop all charges against the journalists Musa Sheriff and Momodou Darboe, and to release Musa Sheriff.

[Amnesty West & Central Africa @AmnestyWARO]

Good news for gender equity in #Ghana 🎉
✅ We welcome the passage of the Gender Equity Bill 2024 by the parliament, aiming at increasing the participation of women in public office.
❕ We urge the president to assent to the bill as it is an important step towards gender equity.

[Amnesty West & Central Africa @AmnestyWARO]

🔴#Gambie. Le maintien de l’interdiction des #MGF est une bonne nouvelle, mais les autorités doivent s’attaquer en urgence à ses causes profondes.
A lire sur notre site Internet 👇

https://t.co/EuDIDQ0r0K

[Amnesty West & Central Africa @AmnestyWARO]

📣Following our report, Metssa's activities in #Congo were suspended by the Ministry of Environment.

@AmnestyWARO is now calling for an urgent investigation👇

https://t.co/rtrHYyGRwB
@EnvDDBC_GouvCg @ASoudanNonault #Brazzaville @SamiraDakar

[Amnesty West & Central Africa @AmnestyWARO]

🔴Le nombre d’exécutions recensées en Afrique subsaharienne est passé de 11 en 2022 à 38 en 2023.

Lisez notre rapport annuel sur les condamnations à mort et exécutions dans le monde en 2023 ⬇️
#deathpenalty
https://t.co/4f1R8wffgq

[Amnesty West & Central Africa @AmnestyWARO]

2/2 More countries should have universal jurisdiction to ensure that no perpetrators of crimes against humanity have a place to hide.
#Endimpunity

[Amnesty West & Central Africa @AmnestyWARO]

1/2 The conviction of former interior minister of #Gambia Ousman Sonko for crimes against humanity by a Switzerland court today is a victory against impunity.

[Amnesty West & Central Africa @AmnestyWARO]

Gambia's parliament must uphold its commitment to human rights and vote against the bill to reverse the ban on FGM. Let's stand with activists fighting for the rights and wellbeing of girls and women. Retweet this to call on Gambia’s parliament to #SayNoToFGM. #WomensRights

[Michèle Eken @MicheleEken]

https://t.co/bpnj6Qk1fC

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

A potential full-fledged military incursion into #Rafah, where some 1.5m Palestinians are packed in, is terrifying.

Extremely high number of civilians, mostly children & women, may be killed or injured.

The world must not allow this to happen. There must be a ceasefire now.

[Amnesty International Côte d'Ivoire @Amnesty_CI]

#DefendsLeCamp
#Anticorruption

[Amnesty West & Central Africa @AmnestyWARO]

#Ghana
President @NAkufoAddo refused to sign into law the bills removing the death penalty from the 1960 Criminal and Other Offences Act and the 1962 Armed Forces Act for procedural reasons.
We call on the President to immediately reintroduce these bills and to ensure the #deathpenalty is also removed from the Constitution as it violates the right to life as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

[Amnesty West & Central Africa @AmnestyWARO]

#Centrafrique Cette semaine, alors que la Cour Pénale Spéciale achève son 1er mandat, nos collègues @AbdouDiarraMl et @AliceBanens dressent un bilan.
https://t.co/hbPCxeYEKI

[Amnesty West & Central Africa @AmnestyWARO]

#Ghana Parliament is currently debating 2 bills to remove the death penalty from law. We welcome efforts to abolish the death penalty in Ghana and call on all members of parliament to vote for the Criminal and other offences Amendment Bill and the Armed Forces Amendment Bill. 1/2

[Amnesty West & Central Africa @AmnestyWARO]

NOUVEAU RAPPORT :

Les personnes qui mettent la lumière sur les cas de corruption en Afrique de l'Ouest & du Centre font face à une répression tenace.

Les autorités doivent lutter contre la corruption et défendre les droits de ceux qui la dénoncent.
https://t.co/PkRUkxNQRn