To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council 11 June 2019 Ensure continued scrutiny of the human rights situation in Eritrea Excellency, We, the undersigned human rights organizations, are writing to urge you to support the adoption of a resolution at the upcoming...
1. Twenty years after the All African Human Rights Defenders Conference held in Johannesburg in 1999, AfricanDefenders (the Pan African Human Rights Defenders Network) convened the AfricanDefenders Convention (Johannesburg+20) from 12-14 June 2019 in Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania. 2 . The Convention brought together human...
My delegation attended the 64th ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Commission) from 24 April to 14 May 2019 in Sharm El-Sheikh, the Arab Republic of Egypt. It comprised human rights defenders (HRDs) from Algeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon,...
This article was first published by CIHRS Medical neglect in prisons a tool of the Sisi government to kill its opponents, Morsi will not be the last victim The death of former president Mohamed Morsi exposes one of the Egyptian government’s cruelest forms of political retaliation: prolonged...
This article was first published by DefendDefenders In a report published today, DefendDefenders analyses the content and evolution of resolutions adopted by the UN Human Rights Council (hereafter “Council”) in the framework of its agenda item 10, which is dedicated to technical assistance and capacity-building. No Advice...
This article was first published by DefendDefenders DefendDefenders welcomes the adoption of a resolution on Eritrea today at the UN Human Rights Council (“Council”). While making clear that diplomatic progress in the Horn of Africa has not translated into domestic human rights progress in Eritrea, the...
