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Somaliland: Human rights defender begins hunger strike protesting imprisonment
The chairman of Somaliland’s Human Rights Centre, Guleid Ahmed Jama, who is currently detained in Hargeisa’s Central Prison and yesterday commenced a hunger strike, should be immediately and unconditionally released said the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) in a statement released today. This is EHAHRDP’s second public statement on Guleid’s […]
Burundi: L’Etat responsable d’attaques sans précédent à l’encontre des défenseurs des droits de l’homme et des journalistes
Au cours des deux derniers jours, la communauté des défenseurs des droits de l’homme et des journalistes au Burundi a souffert d’une des atteintes les plus flagrantes aux droits et à la liberté de réunion pacifique, d’association et d’expression jamais vues dans l’histoire récente du pays, a déclaré East and Horn of Africa Human Rights […]
Burundi: Unprecedented State assault on human rights defenders and journalists
Over the last two days, Burundi’s community of human rights defenders and journalists have borne the brunt of one of the most egregious assaults on the rights to freedoms of peaceful assembly, association and expression ever seen in the country’s recent history, said the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project in a […]
Publication: The State of African Human Rights Defenders 2015
(Banjul, The Gambia) A compilation of country studies examining the situation of human rights defenders in Africa has been released today by the Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network. The State of African Human Rights Defenders 2015 explores challenges, restrictions, and protections on the fundamental freedoms necessary for human rights defenders to operate freely and challenge human rights […]
ACHPR56: Updates from the East and Horn of Africa (April 2014 – April 2015)
The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network welcomes the opportunity offered by the 56th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) to highlight some of the current human rights issues in the East and Horn of Africa region for the period of April 2014 to April 2015. […]
African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights: Statement on the Human Rights Situation in Africa
56th Ordinary Session of the Africa Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Banjul, Gambia Public Session Human Rights Situation in Africa Statement by the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project Madame Chairperson, distinguished Commissioners, State Delegates, representatives of NHRIs and NGOs; all protocols respectfully observed. On behalf of the East and Horn […]
African Commission on Human & Peoples’ Rights: Side Event on the Human Rights Situation in Somalia and Sudan
The human rights situations in Somalia and Sudan continue to be among the gravest, and most complex, on the African Continent. Today, on the margins of the African Commission at 6pm, in Committee Room 1, EHAHRDP and our partners from ACJPS, SIHA, and SIMHA, will be hosting a major side-event to explore these challenges. On […]
Somaliland: Release Human Rights Defender Guleid Ahmed Jama
State authorities in Somaliland must immediately release detained lawyer and human rights defender Guleid Ahmed Jama, who is being detained on wholly baseless charges, said the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project, in a statement released today. Guleid Ahmed Jama is a respected lawyer and the Chairperson for Somaliland’s Human Rights Centre. […]
#Wedefend #Nousdefendons Campaign
PAHRDN/EHAHRDP delegation is setting off to attend the 56th ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR), scheduled for 21st April to 7th May 2015 and the preceding NGO Forum running from 17th -19th April 2015. The #Wedefend #Nousdefendons campaign will be officially launched at the margins of the 56th session […]
Letter to H.E President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Ratification of African Regional Human Rights Instruments
Twelve South Sudanese and international organizations, committed to the promotion and protection of human rights in South Sudan, write to urge the Government of South Sudan to complete ratification of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the African Charter) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) by depositing instruments of ratification with the African Union (AU). We urge the Government to do this in advance of the 56th ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, which will commence on 21 April 2015.