DefendDefenders joins the rest of the world in commemorating International Women’s Day 2022. This year’s theme: “Gender Equality today for a sustainable tomorrow,” reiterates the importance of eliminating any gender barriers and differentiations in the fight against climate change. In particular, it draws our attention to the nexus...
In a first for the Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (Southern Defenders), the 2021 Southern Defenders two-day annual summit was hosted in a city outside its headquarters in Johannesburg and was taken to the capital city of Mozambique, Maputo. The Southern Defenders in partnership...
The undersigned human rights organizations denounce the Egyptian government’s failure to close Case no. 173 of 2011, commonly known as the “NGO Foreign Funding Case”, which has now been ongoing for over a decade despite the sporadic issuance of decisions to suspend investigations or lift...
Sign the petition at change.org We, the undersigned civil society organizations and individuals are deeply concerned that a Nigerian filmmaker Aminu Umar Mukhtar, popularly known as Aminu Nasara, has reportedly been declared wanted by the Kano State Censorship Board for allegedly promoting immorality with his new drama series...
A la date du troisième anniversaire du mouvement de protestation pro-démocratie « Hirak », les organisations soussignées expriment leur vive inquiétude face à l’intensification dangereuse des manœuvres répressives pour museler le mouvement citoyen pacifique et étouffer les voix de la société civile en Algérie. Les...
On the third anniversary of the pro-democracy protest movement “Hirak”, the undersigned organisations are highly dismayed at the dangerous intensification of repressive tactics used by the Algerian authorities to silence peaceful dissent and stifle civil society. The arrests of human rights defenders Zaki Hannache and...
