


We are incredibly excited to announce Ngao Yetu: Digital Security with

On World Press Freedom Day, I would like to take

For its first annual meeting, ProtectDefenders.eu, an international consortium comprised of twelve organisations including DefendDefenders, warns about the worrying pattern of criminalisation used against Human Rights defenders throughout the world.
60 organisations call on the Egyptian government to cease silencing civil society, and to allow NGOs to conduct their mandates within Egypt’s constitutional framework and in full respect of its international legal commitments to freedom of association.
South Africa’s announced withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC)

According to a new global rights monitoring tool, almost 170
The Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network seeks the services of a consultant(s) to undertake an evaluation of its Austrian Development Cooperation-funded project in protecting human rights defenders in Africa. Applications will be accepted until 3 October 2016.
The African Union (AU), in advance of a meeting with
Union africaine: Des activistes africains contestent les attaques contre la Cour Pénale Internationale.