ACHPR61: Updates from the East and Horn of Africa (May – October 2017)
1 November 2017
In its bi-annual report to the African Commission on Human
In its bi-annual report to the African Commission on Human
Human Rights Council: 36th Session Item 10: Interactive Dialogue with
22 CSO voice their extreme concern over the humanitarian and human rights situation in Sudan.
In an oral statement, Executive Director Hassan Shire updates the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the situation in the East and Horn of Africa, and calls to end the climate of impunity that has prevails in many countries across the sub-region.
(20 December 2016) A prominent Sudanese human rights defender (HRD),
On the opening day of its 59th Ordinary session, DefendDefenders calls
Our organisations, the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project and ACJPS, would like to express concern regarding the crackdown by the Government of Sudan on independent civil society, and the severe circumscription of the right to freedom of expression.
Despite Sudan’s commitments to ensure a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders, civil society, the media, and members of the opposition, the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies remain extremely concerned by the repeated arbitrary detention of such actors in Sudan.
To Permanent Representatives of Members and Observer States of the
Sudanese authorities should drop all charges against 10 activists affiliated
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