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Zimbabwe: End crackdown on freedom of assembly and expression, and harassment of human rights defenders
The Pan-Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (PAHRDN) and the undersigned organisations condemn the excessive use of lethal force by Zimbabwean security forces in a bid to disperse peaceful protestors. PAHRDN is concerned with the harassment and allegations of torture of human rights defenders (HRDs), their family members, and legitimate political opponents following the January 2019 […]
Eritrea: change course and engage with UN rights review
PRESS RELEASE – The Eritrean government should seize the opportunity of its human rights review, today at the UN Human Rights Council (“the Council”), to finally commit to addressing the grave human rights violations identified by independent observers.Eritrea’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) comes a month after it took a seat within the UN’s top human […]
Announcing Safe Sister: The women’s digital safety fellowship for East Africa
Join the community of Safe Sisters! We are pleased to announce the 3rd round of our women’s digital safety fellowship program starting March 2019. Two years ago, we started the work of building a community of tech-savvy East African women ready to stand up and defend digital rights and digital safety while fighting online harassment […]
Briefing Paper: HRC40 – Environmental HRDs need recognition, space, and protection
As the UN’s main human rights body, the Human Rights Council, is due to meet and discuss a resolution on environmental human rights defenders (HRDs) next month, DefendDefenders outlines what we expect from the Council and suggests a number of elements that should be part of the resolution. The briefing paper we publish today builds […]
Human Rights Defender of the month: Joseph Parsambei
Joseph Parsambei is the founder and Executive Director of the Tanzania Pastoralist Community Forum (TPCF), a network of organisations dedicated to the protection and promotion of pastoralist and indigenous rights in Tanzania. As a lawyer, his outstanding human rights work focuses on forced displacement of marginalised communities, as well as addressing their lack of inclusion in […]
Human rights defender of the month (January 2019): Yared Hailemariam
Yared Hailemariam is an Ethiopian human rights defender (HRD), and the Executive Director of the Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia (AHRE), a non-governmental and non-partisan organisation based in Brussels and Geneva, founded by activists that fled the country. He served as a lead investigator at the Ethiopia Human Rights Council (HRCO) for seven years before being forced into exile in the aftermath of the heavily contested 2005 election in the country.
2018: End of the Year Message
Dear friends and colleagues, As we move towards the end of 2018, it is time to reflect upon our achievements, actions, and challenges over this past year. I am grateful to say that we have enhanced our work, methodologies, strategies, and most importantly our impact in 2018 – ensuring an increased and improved level of […]
ACHPR: Reflections on the 63rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights
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Human Rights Defender of the Month (December 2018): Joseph Parsambei
Joseph Parsambei is the founder and Executive Director of the Tanzania Pastoralist Community Forum (TPCF), a network of organisations dedicated to the protection and promotion of pastoralist and indigenous rights in Tanzania. As a lawyer, his outstanding human rights work focuses on forced displacement of marginalised communities, as well as addressing their lack of inclusion in the justice system.
Claiming Spaces for Human Rights Defenders in Kenya
In commemoration of international human rights day celebrated every 10 December, DefendDefenders (the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project) in partnership with the National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders-Kenya (NCHRD-K) we are privileged to host the annual Claiming Spaces: Tactical tools for Human Rights Defenders in Nairobi, Kenya, from 3-7 December 2018. This year, […]