This year, as we commemorate 70 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and 20 years of the UN Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms;...
Universities play a crucial role in fostering peaceful activism, which is especially important as civic space is shrinking across the globe and human rights defenders (HRDs) continue to face threats and repression....
New guidelines provide authoritative guidance to African States on how to ensure that the right to freedom of assembly and association is respected and protected in law, policy and practice (the Guidelines)....
Kampala, Uganda — Thought leaders of the Pan African Human Rights Defenders Network (PAHRDN) from across East, Central, West, North and Southern regions of Africa gathered in Kampala, Uganda from 3 to 5 October 2017 to coordinate...
The Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network (PAHRDN) meeting in Nouakchott, Mauritania on the sidelines of the 62nd Ordinary Session of African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, expresses serious concern over the continuing massive violation of human rights in the Anglophone Regions of Cameroon....
[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" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] A compilation of country studies examining the situation of human rights defenders in Africa has just been released by the Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network (PAHRDN). The State of Human Rights Defenders 2016 explores challenges, restrictions, and protections on...
