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HRC31: Oral statement on the joint report by Special Rapporteurs Maina Kiai and Christof Heyns
Interactive Dialogue on the Joint compilation report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
UGANDA: Targeting of Journalists During Election Period Must End
Over the course of the electoral period, Ugandan police and security forces have targeted scores of journalists by restricting access to information, damaging and confiscating equipment, and have subjected them to intimidation, physical attacks and arbitrary arrests.
HRC31: DefendDefenders hosts side-event on elections in East and Horn of Africa
DefendDefenders (East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project) will host the side event “Electoral crises in the East and Horn of Africa: what can the Human Rights Council do about shrinking civil space?” at the 31st session of the UN Human Rights Council.
SOUTH SUDAN: DefendDefenders condemns recent increase in detention and torture of journalists and HRDs
DefendDefenders (East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project) strongly condemns and calls for independent investigations into the recent increase in physical attacks, arbitrary detentions and use of brutal torture against human rights defenders and journalists in South Sudan. On 8 March, journalist and editor of El Tabeer newspaper Joseph Afendi was found in […]
Defenders speaking out: challenges for women HRDs
Today, on 8 March, we celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women. Women are some of the bravest human rights defenders the DefendDefenders supports: they not only engage in the dangerous work of promoting human rights, but also do so in a context that is often biased and prejudiced against them.buy viagra generic mexicanpharmacyonlinerx.net over […]
Oral Statement on Burundi read by Pierre Claver Mbonimpa at the 31st Session of the Human Rights Council
Version française ci-dessous. 31st Session of the Human Rights Council Joint EHAHRDP, CIVICUS and Protection International Oral Statement during the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders and the Special Advisor of the Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide Read by Mr Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, President of APRODH Mr President, On […]
HRC31: Side-event on Burundi on 4th March at 3pm
DefendDefenders will host a side event on Burundi at the 31st session of the UN Human Rights Council. Panelists will include Michel Forst (UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights Defenders), Pierre Claver Mbonimpa (President of APRODH), and Tom Gibson (Representative for Burundi and DRC at Protection International).
HRC31: Global civil society meets with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
On 1 March, civil society leaders from across the globe met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the side-lines of the High Level Segment of the 31st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, to discuss pressing issues affecting human rights defenders worldwide. Civil society leaders were able to raise crosscutting human rights challenges […]
UGANDA: Joint letter on internet shutdown during election period
25 CSOs urgently request immediate action to condemn the internet shutdown in Uganda, and to prevent any systematic or targeted attacks on democracy and freedom of expression in other African nations during forthcoming elections in 2016.
SOUTH SUDAN: Call for accountability for past atrocities and on-going violations
To Permanent Representatives of member and observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council Geneva, 26 February 2016, RE: Addressing the human rights situation and the need for accountability for past atrocities and on-going violations in South Sudan Your Excellencies, We, the undersigned South Sudanese and international non-governmental organisations, write to urge your delegation […]