Mr. President, Madam High Commissioner, DefendDefenders salutes your approach to preventative engagement, which was clearly expressed in, among other statements, the address you delivered at the end of your mission to Cameroon, on 6 May 2019. A range of tools should be used to address country situations,...
This Statement was first published by (SAHRDN), Johannesburg, South Africa Today, 26 June 2019, marks 32 years since the coming into force of the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The Convention is the main international mechanism which...
As civil society organisations from across the region, we are concerned by the increased arrests of human rights defenders in Zimbabwe. In 2019 alone, numerous human rights defenders have been arrested, detained and charged with offences such as ‘subverting constitutional government’ and ‘participating in gathering with...
This article was first published by DefendDefenders In 2018, DefendDefenders and its partners continued to monitor and document human rights violations across the East and Horn of Africa sub-region, with a focus on the contexts affecting the work of HRDs. The year was filled with human rights...
Highlights AfricanDefenders Convention (Johannesburg 20+) Twenty years after the All African Human Rights Defenders Conference held in Johannesburg in 1998, AfricanDefenders’ convention (Johannesburg+20) was held from 12 to 14 June in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The convention brought together human rights defenders (HRDs) from all the regions of Africa,...
Highlights AfricanDefenders Convention (Johannesburg 20+) Twenty years after the All African Human Rights Defenders Conference held in Johannesburg in 1998, AfricanDefenders’ convention (Johannesburg+20) was held from 12 to 14 June in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The convention brought together human rights defenders (HRDs) from all the regions of...
