Side Event of the 15th Session of the Human Rights Council

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights turns 35!

The 73rd session of the African Commission on Human and

STATEMENT ON THE MURDER OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER THULANI MASEKO

It is with utter shock and distress that DefendDefenders and

CONSULTANT TO STREAMLINE THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE MECHANISMS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AMONGST PARTNERS

Organisational Background: DefendDefenders (The East and Horn of Africa Human

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: FULL-TIME SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Job Title: Systems Administrator Reports to: Technology Program Manager Location: Kampala, Uganda Start: March

Updates from December 2022

Dear Friends, First, congratulations upon completing 2022. For those whose

Human Rights Defender of the month: Kasale Maleton Mwaana

Kasale’s human rights activism precedes his years. The son of pastoralist parents from Ngorongoro district in northern Tanzania, he grew up seeing his parents and entire community having to defend their land and way of life against authorities who thought their lands could be put to better use. Now, at 25, Kasale is already one of the most recognizable advocates of his people’s cause, much to the ire of Tanzanian authorities.
“Our people’s struggle goes back many generations. It started with the pushing out of our forefathers from Serengeti to gazette Serengeti National Park in 1959, and then further evictions from the Ngorongoro crater to gazette the Ngorongoro conservation area in 1975. Since then, every generation has had to resist further evictions. It’s now my generation’s turn,” he says.