This article was first published by the Southern Africa Human Rights Network The Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network and Maverick Citizen launched the Southern Africa Weekly Human Rights Roundup, aimed at highlighting important human rights news in Southern Africa. The Human Rights Roundup integrates efforts...
This post was first published by the Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network The Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN or the Defenders Network) welcomes the ruling by the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) to uphold the ruling by the Constitutional Court on February...
This statement was first published by Defenders Coalition Defender Coalition condemns unwarranted intimidation of artivists working on issues of governance and social accountability Defenders Coalition strongly condemn the increased threats to human rights defenders – artivists- working on issues of governance, transparency and social accountability in Kenya...
This post was first published by DefendDefenders In its bi-annual report to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), DefendDefenders highlights the most pressing human rights issues in the East and Horn of Africa sub-region for the period October 2019-April 2020, focusing on issues pertaining to...
This post was first published by DefendDefenders In March 2020, Uganda’s Constitutional Court nullified the Public Order Management Act, 2013 (POMA), a law that made arbitrary restrictions on freedom of assembly possible. One of the people behind the successful petition of POMA is Onyango Owor, a Ugandan lawyer with 15...
This post was first published by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies Amid widespread calls to reduce the country’s prison population in order to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, the Egyptian government has instead embarked on countrywide state security raids throughout the last two months, arresting...
