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Announcing Ngao Yetu: Digital Security with Usable Tools
We are incredibly excited to announce Ngao Yetu: Digital Security with Usable Tools, a unique masterclass for current and upcoming digital security trainers working with human rights defenders in East Africa. Ngao Yetu combines two back-to-back workshops: a User Experience (UX) training facilitated by a UX expert followed by an advanced digital security training of trainers […]
DefendDefenders launches new website
Dear friends and colleagues, In 2015, when we celebrated the ten-year anniversary of the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (then still abbreviated EHAHRDP), we decided it was time to give the organisation a new, fresh face under its new name: DefendDefenders. In February, after a year of consultations, we presented our […]
Kenya: Civil society condemns attempted raid and deregistration of human rights organisations
NGO Coordination Board targets Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) and Africa Centre for Open Governance (AfriCOG).
Call for applications: Independent evaluation consultancy
DefendDefenders (the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project) is the secretariat to a network of more than 78 member organisations drawn from eleven countries in the sub-region (that is, Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia (and Somaliland), South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda). The project was designed to strengthen the work […]
Sudan: Human rights defenders detained, face death penalty
Sudanese authorities have been unjustly holding Dr. Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, Hafiz Idris, and Mobarak Adam Abdalla, three human rights defenders, and have charged them with ‘crimes against the state which carry the death penalty, 30 human rights groups and individuals said today. Dr. Mudawi Ibahim Adam and Hafiz Idris have been held for approximately seven […]
Tanzania: Stop threatening rights groups
The government of Tanzania should end its hostile rhetoric toward civil society groups and threats to obstruct their work, 18 national and international nongovernmental organizations said today. The comments have targeted groups helping pregnant girls finish their education and those working to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. The organizations […]
Reflections on the 35th session of the UN Human Rights Council
Oral statements to the Council Open letters and press releases Side-events at the Council Outcomes and resolutions Last month DefendDefenders travelled to Geneva, together with human rights defenders (HRDs) from Burundi, Eritrea, and Ethiopia to call for action and accountability on some of the world’s gravest human rights crises at the 35th session of the […]
Uganda: Police Authorities must conduct impartial and transparent investigations into the extra-judicial killing of HRD
Eleven human rights groups unequivocally condemn the extra-judicial killing of human rights defender (HRD) Irumba Erasmus who was the coordinator of the Twerwaneho Listeners’ Club (TLC) activities in Rwebisengo District, and his friend Vide Kanyoro, by officers of the Uganda Police Force (UPF) and Uganda People’s Defence Forces(UPDF). We call on the Ugandan authorities to […]
Burundi: DefendDefenders submits 2 joint reports to 29th session of the UPR Working Group
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States. The process provides for the participation of all relevant stakeholders, including non-governmental organisations and national human rights institutions (NHRIs). Civil society actors and NHRIs can submit information which can be added to […]
Reflections on the 60th session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
Last month, Commissioners and representatives of African member states, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organisations travelled to Niamey, Niger, to attend the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ (the Commission) 60th session. DefendDefenders led a delegation of human rights defenders (HRDs) from Burundi, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, South Sudan, and Uganda to engage with […]