On 26th July 2021, Mariam Nakibuuka, 35, breathed her last at Uganda’s Kampala hospital, succumbing to the rampaging Covid-19 pandemic. Mariam joined DefendDefenders as an intern in 2015, and rose through the ranks from being a fellow, to a Protection Assistant, and finally to a Senior Protection Associate, at the time of her death.
DefendDefenders (East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project) announces the untimely demise
Oral statements to the Council Advocacy documents and press releases
Ahead of the third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of South
In a joint submission prepared ahead of Uganda’s third Universal Periodic
By adopting a resolution on the situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray
By adopting a new resolution on Eritrea, the UN Human
Dear friends and colleagues, Throughout June, we continued to prioritise
Ana Taban, which means ‘I am Tired’ in Arabic, was established in 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya out of frustration of South Sudanese artists with several issues related to the civil war in the country. This was after another conflict broke out at the Presidential Palace in Juba a few months after the signing of a peace deal.
In a letter AfricanDefenders, DefendDefenders, and partners sent to states on
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