Newsletter: Defenders in Focus, Issue 8 (August- December 2014)
9 March 2015
For updates on EHAHRDP’s activities, please see the 8th issue
For updates on EHAHRDP’s activities, please see the 8th issue
Hassan Shire Civil Society Speaker East and Horn of Africa
Seventy six South Sudanese and international non-governmental organizations, write to urge the African Union Peace and Security Council to immediately consider, publish and disseminate the report of the AU Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan (AUCISS).
Nous, organisations non gouvernementales sud-soudanaises et internationales signataires de la présente, vous exhortons à examiner, publier et diffuser, dans les plus brefs délais, le rapport de la Commission d’enquête sur le Soudan du Sud.
Human rights defenders from the African region provided concrete inputs to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to better protect and enable any individual or organisation seeking to engage with the African human rights system.
Burundi is at a turning point in its short history as a democratic country. The country’s forthcoming third democratic elections since the end of its long civil war, scheduled for May 2015, are of critical importance to its peaceful development, and are a source of growing concern to many national and international stakeholders.
As originally published in the East African, January 31st- 6th
Opinion Piece: The East African As originally published in the
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