ACHPR58: Updates from the East and Horn of Africa (October 2015 – March 2016)
6 April 2016
An overview of the Human Rights Situation in the East and Horn of Africa between October 2015 and March 2016
An overview of the Human Rights Situation in the East and Horn of Africa between October 2015 and March 2016
With the 31st session of the Human Rights Council starting next week, DefendDefenders, and 8 other CSOs are asking all members and observer states to press Ethiopa to stop these gross violations against basic human rights and dignity.
Kampala – While the East and Horn of Africa Human
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, the East and Horn
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Les défenseurs des droits de l’homme doivent travailler dans un
The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network
Ethiopia’s already limited space for civil society and human rights defenders is undergoing further contraction, warns CIVICUS, The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project, and the Ethiopia Human Rights Project (EHRP). Throughout 2014, Ethiopian authorities have orchestrated an unprecedented legislative assault on journalists, and independent voices within civil society, undermining fundamental human rights and restricting the operating environment for civil society and human rights defenders.
Forty 0ne regional and international NGOs write to the Ethiopian
Ethiopian authorities must stop the use of anti-terror legislation to
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