
EHAHRDP Meets Somali Journalist Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim
Staff of the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights

Staff of the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights

The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project welcomed the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders presented yesterday to the 22nd session of the Human Rights Council being held in Geneva. In her report, Madam Margaret Sekaggya highlighted the role that national human rights institutions (NHRIs) that operate in compliance with the Paris Principles can play as human rights defenders and in support of human rights defenders.

The Somali government should immediately release freelance journalist Abdiaziz Abdinur

Marking the commencement of support from the European Commission under

The Government of Sudan should end its campaign of harassment

Fifteen non-governmental organisations wrote to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in December 2012 to urge them to ensure that serious human rights violations committed in Sudan are appropriately addressed.
Somalia: Planning Meeting Held for New Project Supporting Human Rights

(Nairobi, November 23, 2012)– The Kenyan authorities should promptly and
Press Statement UN: Time to Go Beyond Reporting on Reprisals

Ambassador Michael Posner (Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human