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11 September 2023
Oral statements delivered during the 54th session of the UN
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Oral statements delivered during the 54th session of the UN
Dear friends, Like the past few months, July barely brought
Omar Faruk’s career, and the passion that drove it, were the product of his circumstances. He was born in 1976, in the first of strong man Mohamed Siad Barre’s two-decade rule over Somalia, which was characterized by gross rights abuses and barely existent civic space. He came of age in the 90s when those abuses and rights violations were peaking, as his country was engulfed by a ruinous civil war following the collapse of the Siad Barre dictatorship.
Dear Friends, June marked the second full month of the
Dear friends, March was a busy month at DefendDefenders. We
Oral statements delivered during the 52nd session of the UN
Dear Friends, First, congratulations upon completing 2022. For those whose
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