FROM AFRICANDEFENDERS

29
Nov
2023

#ADagainstGBV

23
Oct
2023

Empowering HRDs: Our Advocacy at the 77th ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

11
Oct
2023

The State of Artists HRDs in Africa

10
Oct
2023

DefendDefenders/AfricanDefenders and Justice and Peace Netherlands Fortify Collaboration to Protect Human Rights Defenders

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FROM OUR MEMBERS

  • Northern Africa
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  • East & Horn of Africa
  • Southern Africa
11
Apr
2022

Egypt: Atrocious prison conditions require genuine rather than superficial changes to the law regulating prisons

from Northern Africa
28
Feb
2022

Egypt: Government must immediately close Case 173 and end assault on human rights organisations and defenders

from Northern Africa
07
Feb
2022

Egypt: Authorities must repeal the outrageous NGO law

from Northern Africa
21
Jun
2021

Ethiopia: United Nations urged to take action on human rights crisis in Tigray

from AfricanDefenders, East & Horn of Africa, Northern Africa
21
Jun
2021

Algeria: Criminalisation of Fundamental Freedoms Requires Urgent Response

from AfricanDefenders, Northern Africa
20
Jun
2021

Algeria: UN member states must pressure Algerian government to end crackdown on fundamental freedoms

from AfricanDefenders, Northern Africa
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25
Apr
2022

Civil society organizations strongly condemn the arrest of SET officials and demand their immediate release

from Western Africa
26
Oct
2020

Nigeria: Respect the freedom of assembly

from AfricanDefenders, Western Africa
27
May
2020

The West African Human Rights Defenders Network (WAHRDN) denounces a counter-terrorism imbued with a silent genocide on the Fulani people in Burkina Faso.

from Western Africa
12
May
2020

WAHRDN’s statement on the decision of Benin and Côte d’Ivoire to withdraw their declaration under Article 34(6) of the Protocol of the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights

from Western Africa
04
May
2020

Togo: Authorities must urgently protect human rights defenders

from Western Africa
04
Mar
2020

PRESS RELEASE : Togo must respect the freedom of peaceful demonstration

from Western Africa
CHARGER PLUS
23
Feb
2023

ATTEMPTED ARREST, INHUMAN AND DEGRADING TREATMENT OF JOURNALIST XAVIER MESSE, PUBLICATION DIRECTOR OF THE PRIVATE JOURNAL “LE CALAME”

from AfricanDefenders, Central Africa
06
May
2021

Statement on the attack of Barrister Legenju Vitalis

from Central Africa
07
Dec
2020

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND ASSEMBLY AT RISK: ARBITRARY ARREST AND DETENTION OF THREE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS M. KEMBA DIDAH ALAIN FORMER SPOKES PERSON OF THE “LYNIA” MOVEMENT AND CURRENT COORDINATOR OF THE CITIZEN MOVEMENT LE TEMPS (MCT), AND HIS COLLEAGUES MR. BESSANE PRAISES AND MR. SALEH MAHAMADOU ON FM LIBERTE RADIO IN CHAD

from Central Africa
30
Apr
2020

Cameroon must protect human rights defenders – UN experts

from Central Africa
28
Apr
2020

Cameroon: Reseau Des Defenseurs Des Droits Humains En Afrique Centrale’s statement on the massacres in Ngarbuh

from Central Africa
21
Apr
2020

Press Release of the Secretary General of the Human Rights and Environment Alliance in Chad (ADHET)

from Central Africa
CHARGER PLUS
25
Apr
2022

UGANDA: A CALL TO END THE CONTINUOUS UNABATED ASSAULT ON FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS.

from East & Horn of Africa
25
Apr
2022

PRESS STATEMENT: SHRINKING CIVIC SPACE IN KENYA AND THE RIGHT TO PROTEST

from East & Horn of Africa
11
Apr
2022

Reflections on the 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council

from East & Horn of Africa
07
Feb
2022

Enough is Enough: Stop Killing Women Human Rights Defenders

from East & Horn of Africa
06
Dec
2021

PRESS RELEASE : WINNERS OF THE 2021 HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AWARDS ANNOUNCED

from East & Horn of Africa
16
Aug
2021

Burundi: Release Lawyer Tony Germain Nkina

from East & Horn of Africa
CHARGER PLUS
24
Jan
2023

SouthernDefenders Strongly Condemns the Heinous Assassination of Renowned Human Rights Lawyer Thulani Maseko, Calls for a Swift and Thorough Investigation and Urges SADC to Urgently Act on the Escalating Political Crisis in Eswatini

from AfricanDefenders, Southern Africa
28
Feb
2022

REPORT OF THE 2021 SOUTHERN DEFENDERS SUMMIT

from AfricanDefenders, Southern Africa
02
Feb
2022

Media release on the arbitrary detention and torture of student leaders in Eswatini

from Southern Africa
16
Aug
2021

STATEMENT BY THE SOUTHERN AFRICA HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS NETWORK (SOUTHERN DEFENDERS) ON ELECTIONS IN ZAMBIA

from Southern Africa
24
May
2021

The Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network, Mosaiko, and the Angolan Protection Desk condemn the killing of protesters and the continuous unlawful detention of GodinhoCristóvão, Joana Janja and Ermenengildo Teotonioi in Angola.

from Southern Africa
20
Apr
2021

Zimbabwe Human Rights Defenders Assets and Needs Assessment Report

from Southern Africa
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