From 1 to 3 October, the ICJ and the Lesotho National Federation of Organizations of the Disabled (Lnfod), an umbrella body of organizations for persons with disabilities, held a judicial training in Lesotho on the rights and access just to persons with disabilities. The workshop was...
65th ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Item 4: Human Rights Situation in Africa Delivered by Hassan Shire Mister Chairperson, distinguished Commissioners, State delegates, representatives of National Human Rights Institutions and non-governmental organisations, DefendDefenders (The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project) and...
In its bi-annual report to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), DefendDefenders (the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project) provides a six-month overview of events affecting the rights to freedom of association, expression, and peaceful assembly in the East and Horn...
20 years after the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, where do we stand on the legal protection of defenders in West Africa? To assess the progress and challenges that remain in the region, ISHR, in collaboration with the West African Network...
Marthe Pedan Coulibaly, coordinator of the Ivorian Coalition of Human Rights Defenders (CIDDH) issued an oral statement on behalf of ISHR during the Universal Periodic Review of Côte d'Ivoire (September 19, 2019, 42nd session of the Human Rights Council). ...
The Sh50 million rights defenders kitty has reached Sh500,000 through contributions of individual Kenyans. National Coalition of Human Right Defenders executive director Kamau Ngugi says the amount is beyond their expectations as they did not think ordinary Kenyans would take up the matter so fast and...
