DefendDefenders and CIVICUS release report ahead of Rwanda’s UPR review
10 July 2020
In a joint report prepared ahead of the UN Human Rights
In a joint report prepared ahead of the UN Human Rights
Oral statements delivered by DefendDefenders at the 44th session of
Dear friends and colleagues, George Floyd’s murder has sparked unprecedented global outrage. Thousands of
Vanessa Tsehaye started her work as a human rights defender at an early age: at 16, she founded a high school group in support of imprisoned Eritrean journalist Seyoum Tsehaye. Seven years later, the same diaspora organisation, One Day Seyoum, is one of Eritrea’s leading human rights organisations – spear-headed by the now 23-year old Vanessa.
In a new report, DefendDefenders examines to what extent, and
A delegation of DefendDefenders and AfricanDefenders took an active part
DefendDefenders and AfricanDefenders will host a series of webinars to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on human rights defenders.
Based on research that collected the testimonies of more than 120 HRDs, in-depth case studies, and live interviews with four exiled HRDs, Exile Shall Not Silence Us is a podcast series that highlights the professional, security, socio-economic, and psychosocial challenges of HRDs in exile in Africa, but most of all their achievements and resilience strategies.
The United Nations’ (UN) top human rights body, the Human
As human rights defenders (HRDs) in the East and Horn
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