United States: Work with Us to Fight Corruption and Injustice
8 May 2012
The Executive Director of the East and Horn of Africa
The Executive Director of the East and Horn of Africa
Nineteen Somali human rights defenders benefitted from a capacity-building training in Mogadishu organised jointly by the Human Rights Unit of the United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS), the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) and Protection International (PI) in March 2012.
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 scheduled reopening of the trial of those accused of murdering Ernest Manirumva, a Burundian human rights defender, is a positive step, said the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) and Protection International today. The public hearing is expected to open at 9 am on Friday 30th March at the Tribunal de Grande Instance de la Mairie de Bujumbura.
44 countries yesterday called on the Government of Eritrea to end its use of arbitrary detention and torture of its citizens. Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Human Rights Concern – Eritrea and the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project welcome this long overdue attention paid to the widespread and systematic human rights violations continuing in Eritrea for over a decade.
Representatives of 50 countries and international organisations will meet tomorrow, 23rd February 2012, in London, UK for an international conference on Somalia. Participants in the London Conference must ensure that accountability and respect for human rights are central to the Somali political process, the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) said today.
The Minister of State for Ethics and Integrity, Hon. Rev.
Press Statement 10th February 2012 Sixteen human rights defenders were
On 3 February 2012, the Cassation Bench of the Federal
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