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Freezing of Human Rights Groups’ Accounts in Kenya
Human Rights Agenda (HURIA), The National Coalition for Human Rights Defenders-Kenya (NCHRD-K) and the East and Horn of Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) has learnt, with shock, of the intention of the Inspector General of Police of Kenya to freeze the bank accounts of two highly respected Kenyan human rights organizations.
UN HRC: Open Letter: Draft resolution on Effects of Terrorism on the Enjoyment of Human Rights
In an open letter to the member and observer states of the United Nations Human Rights Council, fourteen civil society organisations urge the states not to support a draft resolution on the ‘Effects of Terrorism on the Enjoyment of Human Rights’ in its present form and without substantial amendment. Open letter on draft counter-terrorism resolution […]
Rwanda: Joint submission by EHAHRDP and CIVICUS to UPR
Joint submission by East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project and CIVICUS, World Alliance for Citizen Participation to the UN Universal Periodic Review on the urgent concerns relating to the operating environment in which civil society activists, human rights defenders and journalists have been systemically targeted by the government of the Republic of […]
Egypt: Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network Condemns Egypt’s Assault on Human Rights Defenders During UPR adoption
In a statement delivered during the adoption of Egypt’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva yesterday, the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project, in partnership with the Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network (PAHRDN) made an oral intervention, highlighting the dramatically deteriorating operating space for human rights defenders and civil society organisations in Egypt. Other human rights organisations, including the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Article 19, Human Rights Watch, and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies made similar calls for the Egyptian government to change course.
UNHRC28: Joint Statement on the UPR Process
United Nations Human Rights Council: 28th Session Oral statement Item 6 – General Debate Thank you. This statement is made on behalf of 47 NGOs. Mr President, By the end of the second cycle, over 50’000 recommendations will have been made at the UPR. This figure is impressive. However, according to some actors, this figure […]
UN HRC28: Oral Intervention During Angola’s Universal Periodic Review
Human Rights Council: 28th Session Universal Periodic Review: Angola Oral Intervention East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) Delivered by Mr. John Foley Thank you Mr. President, My organization makes this statement in partnership with the Association for Justice, Peace and Democracy, and the Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network. We welcome the […]
UN HRC28: Oral Intervention on Human Rights Situations That Require the Council’s Attention
Human Rights Council: 28th Session Item 4: General Debate Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention Oral Intervention East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) Delivered by Mr. John Foley Mr. President, Throughout these last two weeks, and the preceding three sessions of the Human Rights Council, this organisation, our partners, […]
UN HRC28: Side Event ,Human Rights and Elections in Africa: The Role of Human Rights Defenders and Civil Society
EHAHRDP together with its partners: FIDH, CIVICUS, ISHR and ARTICLE 19, will be hosting a side event today, 13th March 2015 at 12.30pm in room 24, Palais des Nations, Geneva to discuss what measures can be taken to ensure greater participation of civil society groups and human rights defenders to achieve transparent and representative elections […]
UN HRC28: Side event on Misuse of Anti-Terrorism Laws in Africa, Room 21 Palais des Nations, Geneva
