20 years after the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, where do we stand on the legal protection of defenders in West Africa? To assess the progress and challenges that remain in the region, ISHR, in collaboration with the West African Network...
Marthe Pedan Coulibaly, coordinator of the Ivorian Coalition of Human Rights Defenders (CIDDH) issued an oral statement on behalf of ISHR during the Universal Periodic Review of Côte d'Ivoire (September 19, 2019, 42nd session of the Human Rights Council). ...
OCTOBER 17, 2019, KAMPALA, UGANDA: The constitutional court nullified the Anti-homosexuality Act in August of 2014 but there has been numerous press over the past weeks about a plan by a section of Ugandan legislature to re-introduce the law. In order to provide clarity on the facts...
