US-Africa: Make Human Rights Central to Summit
Obama Should Press African Leaders to End Repression
August
5, 2014, Washington, DC (HRW) – US President Barack Obama should ensure
that human rights concerns are a major focus of the US-Africa Leaders
Summit, Human Rights Watch
said today. Rights concerns should not be relegated to meetings in the
margins of the summit. The theme of the August 4-6, 2014 summit in
Washington, DC, is “Investing in Our Future.”The summit will host some 45 African heads of state, at least a dozen of whom lead repressive governments
that have imprisoned journalists, human rights defenders, and
anti-corruption campaigners. Many have approved laws that stifle freedom
of expression and used national security, defamation, and
anti-terrorism laws to prosecute independent writers, protesters, and
activists who criticize government policy.
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