Updates from July 2023
31 July 2023
Dear friends, Like the past few months, July barely brought
Dear friends, Like the past few months, July barely brought
Omar Faruk’s career, and the passion that drove it, were the product of his circumstances. He was born in 1976, in the first of strong man Mohamed Siad Barre’s two-decade rule over Somalia, which was characterized by gross rights abuses and barely existent civic space. He came of age in the 90s when those abuses and rights violations were peaking, as his country was engulfed by a ruinous civil war following the collapse of the Siad Barre dictatorship.
Consultation Meeting with Sudanese Exiled HRDs by DefendDefenders and Framework
Another session, another 30 resolutions. The conclusion of the Human
As wide as the Atlantic? Reflections on the New York/Geneva
DefendDefenders and Defenders Coalition- Kenya condemn the recent actions
The UN Human Rights Council extended its scrutiny of Eritrea’s
When the Ethiopian Federal Government representatives and those of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) signed a peace agreement in Pretoria, in November last year, the two parties were hailed for ending arguably the deadliest conflict of the 21st century, in which over 600,000 people had died.
But long before the negotiators for peace got around to an agreement, there were many other unsung heroes, who, through individual and collective efforts helped sustain the world’s gaze on the dire situation in Tigray, despite the Ethiopian Government’s determined efforts to hush it up.
Dear Friends, June marked the second full month of the
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Kampala, Uganda
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