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Submission to the UN Human Rights Council: Eritrea’s UPR
In a submission to the UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) today, DefendDefenders examines the government of Eritrea’s record with regard to the rights to freedoms of peaceful assembly, association, and opinion and expression, as well as the situation of human rights defenders (HRDs). We assess Eritrea’s implementation of recommendations […]
Uganda Shadow Report
The period 2013-2022 witnessed normative developments regarding various rights as articulated in the government report. This shadow report focuses on the implementation of recommendations awarded to the government in the 5th review of its obligations under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights in respect to promoting, protecting, and observing human rights. Some of […]
Eritrea Shadow Report
This report is drafted by DefendDefenders, (East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project). The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (DefendDefenders) is a regional civil society organization (CSOs) registered and based in Uganda. Established in 2005, DefendDefenders seeks to strengthen the work of human rights defenders (HRDs) throughout the East […]
PRESS RELEASE: DefendDefenders/AfricanDefenders and Justice and Peace Netherlands Unite to Strengthen Human Rights Defender Protection Globally
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [10 October 2023] [The Hague, Netherlands]- In a momentous step towards the protection of human rights defenders (HRDs) in Africa, DefendDefenders/AfricanDefenders is delighted to announce the formalization of a crucial collaboration with Justice and Peace Netherlands. Today, our esteemed Chairperson and Executive Director of DefendDefenders, Hassan Shire, inked a historic Memorandum of […]
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: TTAALA COMMUNITY FELLOW
Ttaala Community Fellow Introduction Ttaala is DefendDefenders’ comprehensive skills building project for human rights defenders illuminating the world of digital tools and strategies. Organisations within Ttaala receive access to skills-building workshops, creative and technical consultancies to further campaign and project development, and process support from the Ttaala team at DefendDefenders. The objective of Ttaala is […]
Sudan: there is no more time to lose for the UN Human Rights Council
Sudan: there is no more time to lose for the UN Human Rights Council States should support the creation of an independent mechanism No one can in good faith claim that the Human Rights Council will stop the war in Sudan. But neither can one claim, without a dose of bad faith, that the UN’s […]
Human Rights Defender of the month: Martial Pa’nucci
Martial Pa’nucci is a child of what is fondly known as Africa’s second liberation. In 1990 when he was born, the Republic of Congo, like many other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, was undergoing a transition from one-party rule to multi-party democracy, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Yet developments in ordinary people’s lives were not as optimistic. Pa’nucci was born in one of Brazzaville’s ghettos to a polygamous family of two mothers and 19 siblings, where survival was a daily exercise in courage. When he was two, his father died, followed in quick succession by many of his siblings. Pa’nucci did not start school until he was nine, and he had to do odd jobs – from barbering to plumbing to earn his stay there, lest he dropped out like many of his peers.
Updates from September 2023
Dear Friends September was a very busy month for us at home and abroad. At home, we completed our relocation to our new premises on Lotis Towers, Plot 16, Mackinnon Road, Nakasero in the heart of Kampala. On 8 September, we hosted our friends and development partners on the occasion of our official office opening, […]
Updates from August 2023
Dear friends, I bring you this month’s greetings from the heart of Kampala, at Lotis Towers, Plot 16, Mackinnon Road, where we have substantively moved our offices. August has been our first full month at our new premises, and we are excited at the new location, which is not only bigger and more accessible to […]
Request for Proposals for an Assessment of The Legal and Policy Framework Governing Civic Space in The East and Southern Africa Region
Client: DefendDefenders(East And Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project.) Deadline: 25/09/2023 Time: 04:00pm EAT Whats needed? Technical and Financial Proposal Addressed to: Head of Procurement DefendDefenders Plot 16, LOTIS TOWERS, Mackinnon Road Email: procurement@defenddefenders.org Details. DefendDefenders, requests for proposals/bids for an assessment of the legal and policy framework governing civic space in the East […]