EHAHRDP holds its annual board meeting
31 October 2014
The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project
The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project
Ethiopia’s already limited space for civil society and human rights defenders is undergoing further contraction, warns CIVICUS, The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project, and the Ethiopia Human Rights Project (EHRP). Throughout 2014, Ethiopian authorities have orchestrated an unprecedented legislative assault on journalists, and independent voices within civil society, undermining fundamental human rights and restricting the operating environment for civil society and human rights defenders.
PAN-AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS NETWORK Final communique of the 2nd
EHAHRDP and Pan African Human Rights Defenders Network staff pay
Background The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders
Somaliland National Human Rights Commissioners visit Kampala, Uganda for a week long study tour from 13th-17th October, 2014.
To read EHAHRDP’s latest issue of its newsletter on the
The recently concluded 27th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, which I attended on behalf of EHAHRDP, saw some encouraging global developments, including the passage of two important Resolutions on the protection of civil society space, and on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Katie Campo, the Africa Program Officer at the National Endowment
(Geneva) – The Human Rights Council has resisted attempts to
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