Joint submission by East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project and CIVICUS, World Alliance for Citizen Participation to the UN Universal Periodic Review on the urgent concerns relating to the operating environment in which civil society activists, human rights defenders and journalists have been systemically targeted by the government of the Republic of Rwanda since 2011.
Joint UPR Submission on Rwanda – CIVICUS and EHAHRDP – 23rd Session
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