Item 10: Interactive Dialogue with the Independent Expert on Human Rights in Somalia
30th September 2015 Oral Intervention East and Horn of
30th September 2015 Oral Intervention East and Horn of
EHAHRDP and its partners seek to highlight the pattern of systematic violations and abuses human rights defenders continue to face and the failure of Somalia to uphold its commitments in a side event at the margins of the 30th session of the UN Human Rights Council in room XXIII at 1100 to 1300 hours
The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project
Nearly thirty human rights defenders representing organizations and in their
We the Undersigned representatives of the civil society of Somalia
In light of the visible trend of shrinking space for civil society and the persistent targeting of human rights defenders and their work, the ACHPR created the Study Group on Freedom of Association and Assembly, whose report was presented during its 58th Ordinary Session.
State authorities in Somalia must ensure swift, thorough and lawful
The chairman of Somaliland’s Human Rights Centre, Guleid Ahmed Jama,
The human rights situations in Somalia and Sudan continue to
State authorities in Somaliland must immediately release detained lawyer and
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