Advocacy paper: Operationalising the UN Human Rights Council’s prevention mandate, strengthening action on country situations
From 20 April to 1 May 2018, DefendDefenders led a
A background paper outlining some of the option for the current and the next Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea
Vicky Ntetema is a former journalist and human rights defenders (HRDs) from Tanzania whose work spans more than two decades. In light of her home country’s recent crackdown on civic space, she has begun focusing her efforts towards full-time advocacy, bringing greater attention to human rights abuses and attacks against civil society.
To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the
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Dinah Nakuwa works with the Loima Women Empowerment Initiative (LOWEI), a small organisation of some 60 women founded in 2010 to address social issues in the Turkana region of Northern Kenya. In this arid hinterland, geographically and traditionally on the fringes of Kenyan politics, civil society organisations are predominantly community-based and male dominated – Nakuwa and the women of LOWEI seek to change that.
Civil society calls on the Tanzanian Government to address rapidly deteriorating environment for media, human rights defenders, and opposition party members
DefendDefenders examines the state of human rights defenders in South Sudan.
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