Oral Statement on Burundi read by Pierre Claver Mbonimpa at the 31st Session of the Human Rights Council
4 March 2016
Version française ci-dessous. 31st Session of the Human Rights Council
Version française ci-dessous. 31st Session of the Human Rights Council
DefendDefenders will host a side event on Burundi at the 31st session of the UN Human Rights Council. Panelists will include Michel Forst (UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights Defenders), Pierre Claver Mbonimpa (President of APRODH), and Tom Gibson (Representative for Burundi and DRC at Protection International).
On 1 March, civil society leaders from across the globe
25 CSOs urgently request immediate action to condemn the internet shutdown in Uganda, and to prevent any systematic or targeted attacks on democracy and freedom of expression in other African nations during forthcoming elections in 2016.
To Permanent Representatives of member and observer States of the
With the 31st session of the Human Rights Council starting next week, DefendDefenders, and 8 other CSOs are asking all members and observer states to press Ethiopa to stop these gross violations against basic human rights and dignity.
On 18 February 2016, Uganda will hold its general elections,
Somali human right defenders, including journalists, face worsening patterns of attacks on their rights to life, security of person, and freedom from arbitrary arrests and detention.
(See Somali version below) Kampala – The issuing of criminal
(Djibouti, Kampala, Paris) La Fédération Internationale des Droits de l’Homme,