The Sh50 million rights defenders kitty has reached Sh500,000 through contributions of individual Kenyans. National Coalition of Human Right Defenders executive director Kamau Ngugi says the amount is beyond their expectations as they did not think ordinary Kenyans would take up the matter so fast and...
Hon. Lyandro Komakech officially Launches the report on behalf of the Deputy Speaker of Parliament. (Kampala, October 11th 2019) The Coalition today comes with final validated findings on the realization/enjoyment of the rights to peaceful Assembly, Association and Expression by Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) during the electoral...
Moses Kabaseke, a talented hip-hop artist and activist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was forced to flee to Uganda in 2013 – at only 16 years old. Kabaseke, known by his stage name Belidor, has produced music since he was a child. “I use...
July 4, 2019 Geneva, July 2019 Joint Oral Statement of the Ivorian Coalition of Human Rights Defenders (CIDDH) and International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) On the sidelines of the review of Côte d'Ivoire's fourth periodic report Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), held on...
Egypt /Road Map Program, Statements and Position Papers by CIHRS October 1, 2019 The arrests of Alaa Abdel Fattah and Mohamed al-Baker are the latest in escalating state retaliation against peaceful and lawful opposition and human rights defenders The undersigned rights organizations denounce the Egyptian government’s intensifying crackdown in the...
Your Excellency, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan, The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has recently announced multiple projects promoting pluralism and tolerance both at home and abroad. 2019 has been declared the ‘Year of Tolerance’ and in 2020, Dubai will host the World Expo trade fair, under the...
