AfricanDefenders and its network members and partners are deeply concerned and disturbed by recent news of the unjustifiable imposition of a restriction on the Network of Human Rights Defenders in Central Africa (REDHAC) to operate throughout Cameroon. AfricanDefenders and all its member networks believe this...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]At the 81st session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) and the NGO Forum, we focused on amplifying the challenges faced by Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) across Africa. Our interventions during this session were...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]We were appalled to learn that Mamadou Billo Bah, coordinator of TLP-Guinea and head of the branches and mobilization of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC), and Oumar Sylla alias "Foniké Menguè", National Coordinator of...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Image Credit: Innocent Onyango The Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SouthernDefenders) and the Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network (AfricanDefenders) are deeply concerned and strongly condemns the heavy-handed response by the Kenyan police towards peaceful protesters and the tragic...