ACHPR56: Updates from the East and Horn of Africa (April 2014 – April 2015)
The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network
The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network
Human Rights Agenda (HURIA), The National Coalition for Human Rights Defenders-Kenya (NCHRD-K) and the East and Horn of Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) has learnt, with shock, of the intention of the Inspector General of Police of Kenya to freeze the bank accounts of two highly respected Kenyan human rights organizations.
Business must be booming for teargas suppliers in Africa. Many of the continent’s law enforcement agencies have shown a fondness for excessive force, including through the use of less-than-lethal crowd control tactics, such as teargas. Those on the receiving end are often citizens active and brave enough to exercise their right to protest in defense of their human rights, and the rights of others.
Ahead of Kenya’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council tomorrow, CIVICUS and the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) urge the government to stop its onslaught against civil society and urgently address backsliding on civic freedoms.
Report submitted to the 54th ordinary Session of the African
Report submitted to the 53rd Ordinary Session of the African
(Nairobi, November 23, 2012)– The Kenyan authorities should promptly and
The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network
Overview of the Human Rights Situation
in the East and Horn of Africa
November 2011 – April 2012
Report submitted at the 51st Ordinary Session of the
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)
Banjul, The Gambia, April 2012
The National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders-Kenya and the East
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Plot 16, Mackinnon Road
Nakasero P.O. Box 70356,
Kampala, Uganda
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