On 6 February 2019, AfricanDefenders (the Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network) launched the Ubuntu Hub Cities in Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Cape Town - an Africa based relocation programme for human rights defenders (HRDs). “In designing the concept of Ubuntu Hub Cities, we wanted to challenge...
Visit our new website at www.africandefenders.org Dear Friends and Colleagues, It was in April 2009, at the all African Human Rights Defenders Conference (Johannesburg +10), held in Kampala, Uganda, that the idea of the Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network (PAHRDN) was born as an answer to...
The Pan-Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (PAHRDN) and the undersigned organisations condemn the excessive use of lethal force by Zimbabwean security forces in a bid to disperse peaceful protestors. PAHRDN is concerned with the harassment and allegations of torture of human rights defenders (HRDs), their...
This article was first published by DefendDefenders. PRESS RELEASE – The Eritrean government should seize the opportunity of its human rights review, today at the UN Human Rights Council (“the Council”), to finally commit to addressing the grave human rights violations identified by independent observers. Eritrea’s...
This article was first published by DefendDefenders. As the UN’s main human rights body, the Human Rights Council, is due to meet and discuss a resolution on environmental human rights defenders (HRDs) next month, DefendDefenders outlines what we expect from the Council and suggests a number...
This article was first published by the Southern African Human Rights Defenders Network. Johannesburg: 16 January 2019 The Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN) has today called on the government of Zimbabwe to immediately unblock all internet services, and to halt the ongoing use of...
