Overview of the 57th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
BLOG POST: By Hassan Shire On 18 November 2015 the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (The Commission) concluded its 57th Ordinary Session in
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BLOG POST: By Hassan Shire On 18 November 2015 the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (The Commission) concluded its 57th Ordinary Session in
Dear Friends, Ten years ago, I was a human rights defender in exile. Away from my native Somalia, outside of Africa, I was living in
The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHDP) today entered into a new agreement with the Austrian Development Cooperation through the Austrian
We, the undersigned African civil society organisations and international organisations with a presence in Africa working on human rights and criminal justice, join together to
Pour : Les représentants des Etats africains à l’ONU à New York Ministères des Affaires étrangères des Etats de l’Afrique Le 18 novembre 2013
Seventy one African civil society organisations have collectively written to the African Group calling on every African State to live up to their human rights commitments by supporting the draft UN resolution on protecting women human rights defenders, and by taking concrete steps to protect women defenders in their work.
Reflétant le thème général de l’année 2013 comme l’année du Panafricanisme et de la Renaissance Africaine, nous vous écrivons pour demander à l’Union Africaine de prendre des mesures urgentes pour répondre à la situation dramatique des violations généralisées et systématiques des droits de l’homme en Erythrée, en particulier dans le cadre du sous sous-thème de la commémoration de promouvoir la paix et la sécurité en Afrique.
Reflecting the overall theme of 2013 as the year of Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance, we are writing to call on the African Union to take urgent action to respond to the appalling situation of widespread and systematic human rights violations in Eritrea, especially in light of the commemoration’s sub-theme of promoting peace and security in Africa.
Human rights defenders (HRDs) meeting in Cameroon at the first counterpart meeting of the PAHRD Net have learnt with shock and outrage at the arbitrary arrest and detention of Zimbabwe’s leading human rights lawyer Mrs Beatrice Mtetwa by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) yesterday 17 March 2013 when she was trying to represent her client as a lawyer.
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