For more than five years, Burkina Faso has been facing terrorist attacks led by armed endogenous groups or from neighbouring countries, where the populations and the defence and security forces have paid a heavy price. Attacks, kidnappings, killings of people and soldiers and harassment against...
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, human rights bodies and experts across the globe have called for urgent action to prevent the spread of the virus in places of detention. On 25 March Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, called on governments...
Image credit:Nito/Shutterstock The Pan-Africa Human Rights Defenders (AfricanDefenders) and its sub-regional networks join the rest of the mother continent and her peoples to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the Africa Day. We take this historic opportunity to remind our leaders that “silencing the gun” and defeating...
Ce fut d'abord publié par Réseau Ouest Africain des Défenseurs des Droits Humains - Roaddh/wahrdn Conakry, le 14 mai 2020 Nos organisations appellent à l’arrêt des violences policières ayant entraîné des pertes en vie humaines, des atteintes à l’intégrité physique et des dégâts matériels. Nous condamnons les violences...
Ce fut d'abord publié par Réseau Ouest Africain des Défenseurs des Droits Humains - Roaddh/wahrdn Le 1er Mai 2020, aux environs de 14 heures des Volontaires de la Défenses (VDD) de Barsalogho ont fait irruption dans le village de Kamsé-peulh et ont interpellé six (6) personnes...
This post was first published by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies For over a quarter of a century, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) has contributed to the Arab Rights Library with more than 400 specialized publications on human rights. The library is...
