Djibouti remains the most closed states in the sub-region, ranking amongst the world’s worst violators of press freedom. Additionally, HRDs face increased risks of reprisals for engaging with regional and international human rights mechanisms.
Djibouti remains the most closed states in the sub-region, ranking amongst the world’s worst violators of press freedom. Additionally, HRDs face increased risks of reprisals for engaging with regional and international human rights mechanisms. Six years on, Djiboutian HRD, Kadar Abdi Ibrahim, who was deprived of his passport following advocacy he conducted in Geneva in April 2018, remains unable to leave the country. In March 2024, Kadar Abdi Ibrahim called for an end to state-sponsored reprisals against him, in an oral statement delivered on behalf of DefendDefenders.
The information is based on our latest bi-annual report that can be found under our reports .
Call for applications for human rights defenders from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia and Djibouti to join the TOT program 2022. This
In its bi-annual report to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), DefendDefenders (the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project)
In its bi-annual report to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, DefendDefenders provides a six-month overview of events affecting the rights to freedom
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