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HRC38: ID with the Independent Expert on minority and the Special Rapporteur freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
UN Human Rights Council: 38th regular sessionItem 3: Clustered interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on minority and the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association Oral statement Mr. President, On behalf of DefendDefenders (the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project), I would like to extend […]
HRC38: Operationalising the Human Rights Council’s prevention mandate
Advocacy paper: Operationalising the UN Human Rights Council’s prevention mandate, strengthening action on country situations
Reflections on the 62nd session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
From 20 April to 1 May 2018, DefendDefenders led a delegation of seven members to the 62nd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Peoples’ and Human Rights (ACHPR) in Nouakchott, Mauritania. These HRDs, representing Uganda, Sudan, South Sudan, and Eritrea, used the opportunity to discuss the state of human rights across the sub-region and […]
Eritrea: Options for the Special Rapporteur
A background paper outlining some of the option for the current and the next Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea
Defender of the month: Vicky Ntetema
Vicky Ntetema is a former journalist and human rights defenders (HRDs) from Tanzania whose work spans more than two decades. In light of her home country’s recent crackdown on civic space, she has begun focusing her efforts towards full-time advocacy, bringing greater attention to human rights abuses and attacks against civil society.
Eritrea: Extend UN Special Rapporteur mandate, help end generalized impunity
To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland Eritrea: Extend UN Special Rapporteur mandate, help end generalized impunity Excellencies, Ahead of the 38th session of the UN Human Rights Council (“HRC” or “the Council”), we write to you as a cross-regional group of non-governmental organizations to […]
Call for applications: Training of Trainers and Cyberwoman Forum
Apply by 1 June.
Defender of the month: Dinah Nakuwa
Dinah Nakuwa works with the Loima Women Empowerment Initiative (LOWEI), a small organisation of some 60 women founded in 2010 to address social issues in the Turkana region of Northern Kenya. In this arid hinterland, geographically and traditionally on the fringes of Kenyan politics, civil society organisations are predominantly community-based and male dominated – Nakuwa and the women of LOWEI seek to change that.
Tanzania: Civil society organisations express concern over rapid decline in human rights
Civil society calls on the Tanzanian Government to address rapidly deteriorating environment for media, human rights defenders, and opposition party members
Djibouti: It is time for the government to be serious about its human rights commitments
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