Cameroon: Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Adopt Plan of Action
21 March 2013
Human rights defenders gathered in Yaounde, Cameroon for the first
Human rights defenders gathered in Yaounde, Cameroon for the first
Human rights defenders (HRDs) meeting in Cameroon at the first counterpart meeting of the PAHRD Net have learnt with shock and outrage at the arbitrary arrest and detention of Zimbabwe’s leading human rights lawyer Mrs Beatrice Mtetwa by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) yesterday 17 March 2013 when she was trying to represent her client as a lawyer.
The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project welcomed the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders presented yesterday to the 22nd session of the Human Rights Council being held in Geneva. In her report, Madam Margaret Sekaggya highlighted the role that national human rights institutions (NHRIs) that operate in compliance with the Paris Principles can play as human rights defenders and in support of human rights defenders.
The latest edition of EHAHRDP’s Newsletter “Defenders in Focus” offers updates of the project activities from August 2012 to January 2013 and gives an outlook on upcoming events
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