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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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Ahead of the third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of South Sudan, DefendDefenders and the South Sudan Human Rights Defenders Network (SSHRDN) submitted a report highlighting human
In a joint submission prepared ahead of Uganda’s third Universal Periodic Review (UPR), DefendDefenders, Human Rights Centre Uganda (HRCU), the National Coalition for Human Rights Defenders
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