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To ensure that HRDs are heard at the HRC, DefendDefenders brings HRDs from the East and Horn of Africa sub-region to the HRC sessions.
Through our UN office in Geneva, we ensure strategic engagement with diplomatic missions and HRC members.
Through our UN office in Geneva, we ensure strategic engagement with like-minded organisations based in Geneva.
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HRC51 was a historic session for the UN Human Rights Council. For the first time, initiatives on permanent members of the UN Security Council (the
As grave human rights violations continue to be reported in Burundi, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council maintained its scrutiny of the country by
Weeks after hostilities resumed in northern Ethiopia, today the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council extended the mandate of the International Commission of Human Rights
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