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ACHPR46: The situation of human rights in the East and Horn of Africa

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Report on the human rights situation in East and Horn of Africa region, presented at the 46th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, held between the 11th and the 25th of November 2009, in Banjul, The Gambia.

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Human Rights Defender of the month: Leon Ntakiyiruta

As a child, Leon wanted to be a magistrate – whom he saw as agents of justice. Born in 1983 in Burundi’s Southern province, he came of age at a time of great social and political upheaval in the East African country. In 1993 when Leon was barely 10, Burundi was besieged by a civil war that would last for the next 12 years until 2005, characterized by indiscriminate violence and gross human rights abuses in which over 300,000 people are estimated to have died.In 2012, still struggling to find her footing in Kampala, Aida was introduced to DefendDefenders, where she was introduced to the organisation’s resource center, and assured, it (the center) would be at her disposal whenever she needed to use it.

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