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DefendDefenders’ oral statements at HRC49
Oral statements delivered during the 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council (28 February-1 April 2022) Item 2: Interactive dialogue on the oral update by the Special Rapporteur on Eritrea (4 March 2022) Mr. President, Mr. Special Rapporteur, We thank you for your oral update and for continuing to set the bar high to […]
Managing multiple accounts with MailChimp
If you have been using MailChimp and have been frustrated about managing multiple accounts, especially if these accounts are under the same organisation but say…different programs, we understand! It can be frustrating to constantly log on and off and then on again!buy kamagra polo online www.mabvi.org/wp-content/themes/mabvi/images/new/kamagra-polo.html no prescription Just to backtrack a bit, Mailchimp is […]
Website design using WordPress
One of the most common misconception about WordPress is that it is just a blogging platform, to answer that, it is not! While WordPress started as a blogging tool, it has evolved throughout the years into a powerful website builder and a robust content management system (CMS). The best part about WordPress is that it’s […]
2022 EU Human Rights Defenders Award:Call for nominations
The Delegation of the European Union, together with the European Union Member States represented in Uganda and the Embassy of Norway, invites nominations for the 2022 EU Human Rights Defenders (HRD) Award. The award, which is now in its 11th year, is presented annually, to raise awareness of the work of Human Rights Defenders in Uganda. […]
Ttaala Sprint Workshop
DefendDefenders call for applications from Ugandan human rights organisations to the Ttaala Sprint Workshop 2022. Ttaala is a comprehensive skills-building project for human rights defenders (HRDs) illuminating the world of digital tools and strategies. The organisations taking part in the Ttaala Sprint Workshop 2022 will access on-site technical assistance, continuous virtual support, and access to a network […]
NGOs call on the UN Human Rights Council to adopt a robust resolution on human rights defenders
As the UN Human Rights Council opens its 49th session (HRC49), a group of over 30 NGOs, including DefendDefenders, call on states to adopt a robust resolution on human rights defenders (HRDs) operating in conflict and post-conflict situations — the focus of this year’s resolution. “It is important for the Council to adopt a resolution that […]
Data Cleaning and Analysis using Excel
I know some hate Mathematics😋 but anyone can do data cleaning if they pay attention to a few instructions. It is not rocket science. You have probably come across misspelled words, stubborn trailing spaces, unwanted prefixes, improper cases, and nonprinting characters.It is really disturbing if you intend to carry out a research study, analysis or […]
Human Rights Defender of the month: Fadia Khalaf
Fadia Khalaf was not meant to be an activist. By her own admission, she was born into a conservative Muslim family – the first of six siblings. In Saudi Arabia where she was born and raised, the ruling ideology in the Kingdom was wahabbism – a puritanical version of Islam in which women are strictly expected to stay in the background and not play any public role. Yet even in that conservative setting, she managed to nurture a political consciousness: “I think reading at young age helped build my awareness on concepts like justice and rights in general. I was exposed to concepts around human freedom, and that nurtured the rebel in me,” she says.
Updates from February 2022
Dear Friends, As you already know, in the last weeks of this month, global democracy came under arguably its severest test to date, with Russian aggression against the independent people and Republic of Ukraine. As the international community moved to cobble together an emphatic collective response, we made it clear that the democratic world had […]
Social Media Management using HootSuite
Social media has created an unprecedented opportunity for brands. Today, your organisation can engage directly with customers and the benefits of doing so include uncovering valuable insights about your partners and how they view your services and brand, handling complaints swiftly and developing a stronger value proposition by putting your brand out there, and showing […]