This statement was first published by the West Africa Human Rights Defenders Network. The West Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (WAHRDN) is very worried with the spate of violence and killings meted out to fellow African from other parts of Africa by some citizens of South...
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances On 13 April 2015, Sandra Kodouda, a Sudanese human rights defender (HRD), was abducted in Khartoum, Sudan by a group of unidentified men. Three days later she returned home with a dislocated shoulder and clear signs of physical...
The Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN) and the Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network (AfricanDefenders) call on the Malawi authorities to immediately investigate the petrol bombing of Timothy Mtambo’s house in Lilongwe, Malawi, in the early hours of 15 August 2019, and to bring...
Today, as we commemorate the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, DefendDefenders and AfricanDefenders call on states and relevant actors to guarantee the rights of indigenous peoples, and human rights defenders (HRDs) working to protect them, as set out in the UN Declaration on...
To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland 2 August 2019 Excellencies, Ahead of the 42 nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (“HRC” or “the Council”), we, the undersigned national, regional, and international civil society organisations, write to...
ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND The Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network (AfricanDefenders) is a network of five African sub-regional networks, dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights defenders (HRDs) across the African continent. The Johannesburg + 10 All Africa HRDs Conference held in 2009 established AfricanDefenders with the...
