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Updates from May 2020
Dear friends and colleagues, While our offices have partially opened up again and many human rights institutions are slowly resuming their activities in person, our work continues to be shaped by COVID-19 dynamics. On 3 May, we celebrated World Press Freedom Day – an important day every year, but even more so during this pandemic. Freedom of information is key to […]
Resource/paper: introduction to the UN Human Rights Council
DefendDefenders regularly engages with the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), including through its Geneva office. In a paper released today, “The UN Human Rights Council: What is it? How can it help human rights defenders? How to engage with it?,” we provide human rights defenders (HRDs) and partners with basic information on the HRC, the […]
Free Human Rights Defenders Now! They should have never been detained.
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, human rights bodies and experts across the globe have called for urgent action to prevent the spread of the virus in places of detention. On 25 March Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, called on governments across the world to safeguard the health and safety of […]
Targeted but Not Deterred: Human rights defenders fighting for justice and peace in South Sudan
In a new report published today, DefendDefenders analyses the situation of human rights defenders (HRDs) and civil society in South Sudan after the signature of the 2018 Revitalised Peace Agreement and formation, in early 2020, of a national unity government.
Mainstreaming civic space in State interventions at the UN Human Rights Council
In a joint paper released today, a group of 12 NGOs encourage States to more systematically use civic space indicators as objective criteria for action at the UN Human Rights Council. “Mainstreaming civic space in State interventions at the UN Human Rights Council” makes the case for greater protection of human rights defenders (HRDs) and other […]
Eritrea: maintain Human Rights Council scrutiny and engagement
In a letter released today, DefendDefenders and partners call on the UN Human Rights Council to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Eritrea. Ahead of the 44th session of the Council (scheduled to begin in June 2020), the signatories urge State delegations to support the adoption of a resolution extending the Special Rapporteur’s […]
ACHPR66: Updates from the East and Horn of Africa (October 2019-April 2020)
In its bi-annual report to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), DefendDefenders highlights the most pressing human rights issues in the East and Horn of Africa sub-region for the period October 2019-April 2020, focusing on issues pertaining to civic space. Although the Commission’s 66th Ordinary Session (ACHPR66) has been postponed due to the […]
Call for Applications – Regional SAFETAG Junior Auditors Training
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Updates from April 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is continuing to drastically shape our work. To contain the spread of the virus, most of our team has been working from home, but that is not to say that we have worked less.
COVID-19, Human Rights, and Human Rights Defenders
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is a serious global health crisis that has already caused several hundred thousand deaths worldwide and continues to be a threat to our health and livelihoods. Millions have been, and millions more will be, infected. Measures to contain the spread of the virus are vital, but they also bear potential for […]