ACHPR62: Updates from the East and Horn of Africa (October 2017 – April 2018)
25 April 2018
In its bi-annual report to the African Commission on Human
In its bi-annual report to the African Commission on Human
Statement read by EHAHRD-Net Chairperson Vital Nshimirimama
In its bi-annual report to the African Commission on Human
In its biannual report to the African Commission on Human
On the opening day of its 59th Ordinary session, DefendDefenders calls
The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project welcomes Tanzania’s efforts towards addressing human rights violations, with a particular focus on those targeting women and people with albinism. However, we remain concerned about the growing number of violations against human rights defenders who challenge the violation of land rights, civil and political rights, health related rights, and LGBTI rights, who are regularly targeted by the state, through arbitrary detention, judicial and administrative harassment, reprisals, and office raids…
On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict 24 individuals and civil society organisations call on the Sudanese government to end the widespread sexual violence committed by its security forces and to reverse the atmosphere of impunity that fosters it.
The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network
DefendDefenders details extensively how the relationship between civil society and Burundian state authorities dramatically deteriorated ahead of the April 2015 Presidential elections.
(Geneva) – The Human Rights Council has resisted attempts to
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