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FROM AFRICANDEFENDERS
08
May
2023
AfricanDefenders’ and DefendDefenders’ Statements at ACHPR75
18
Apr
2023
Centre for Human Rights and Robert F Kennedy Human Rights hosts Inter-Mechanism Dialogue between the Commissioners and Secretariats of the African Commission and Inter-American Commission
17
Mar
2023
Rwanda: Questionable trial after journalist’s death
23
Feb
2023
Mauritania: : The community of human rights defenders shocked by the assassination of Soufi Ould Chein at the premises of a police station in Mauritania
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Northern Africa
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11
Apr
2022
Egypt: Atrocious prison conditions require genuine rather than superficial changes to the law regulating prisons
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Northern Africa
28
Feb
2022
Egypt: Government must immediately close Case 173 and end assault on human rights organisations and defenders
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Northern Africa
07
Feb
2022
Egypt: Authorities must repeal the outrageous NGO law
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Northern Africa
21
Jun
2021
Ethiopia: United Nations urged to take action on human rights crisis in Tigray
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AfricanDefenders
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East & Horn of Africa
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Northern Africa
21
Jun
2021
Algeria: Criminalisation of Fundamental Freedoms Requires Urgent Response
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AfricanDefenders
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Northern Africa
20
Jun
2021
Algeria: UN member states must pressure Algerian government to end crackdown on fundamental freedoms
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AfricanDefenders
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Northern Africa
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25
Apr
2022
Civil society organizations strongly condemn the arrest of SET officials and demand their immediate release
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Western Africa
26
Oct
2020
Nigeria: Respect the freedom of assembly
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AfricanDefenders
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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.
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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
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Western Africa
04
May
2020
Togo: Authorities must urgently protect human rights defenders
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Western Africa
04
Mar
2020
PRESS RELEASE : Togo must respect the freedom of peaceful demonstration
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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”
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AfricanDefenders
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Central Africa
06
May
2021
Statement on the attack of Barrister Legenju Vitalis
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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
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Central Africa
30
Apr
2020
Cameroon must protect human rights defenders – UN experts
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Central Africa
28
Apr
2020
Cameroon: Reseau Des Defenseurs Des Droits Humains En Afrique Centrale’s statement on the massacres in Ngarbuh
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Central Africa
21
Apr
2020
Press Release of the Secretary General of the Human Rights and Environment Alliance in Chad (ADHET)
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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.
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East & Horn of Africa
25
Apr
2022
PRESS STATEMENT: SHRINKING CIVIC SPACE IN KENYA AND THE RIGHT TO PROTEST
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East & Horn of Africa
11
Apr
2022
Reflections on the 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council
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East & Horn of Africa
07
Feb
2022
Enough is Enough: Stop Killing Women Human Rights Defenders
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East & Horn of Africa
06
Dec
2021
PRESS RELEASE : WINNERS OF THE 2021 HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AWARDS ANNOUNCED
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East & Horn of Africa
16
Aug
2021
Burundi: Release Lawyer Tony Germain Nkina
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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
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AfricanDefenders
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Southern Africa
28
Feb
2022
REPORT OF THE 2021 SOUTHERN DEFENDERS SUMMIT
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AfricanDefenders
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Southern Africa
02
Feb
2022
Media release on the arbitrary detention and torture of student leaders in Eswatini
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Southern Africa
16
Aug
2021
STATEMENT BY THE SOUTHERN AFRICA HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS NETWORK (SOUTHERN DEFENDERS) ON ELECTIONS IN ZAMBIA
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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.
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Southern Africa
20
Apr
2021
Zimbabwe Human Rights Defenders Assets and Needs Assessment Report
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Southern Africa
CHARGER PLUS