18 Apr

Posted at 07:41h in AfricanDefenders

[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] Source: Centre for Human Rights University of Pretoria Between 12 and 14 April 2023, the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights hosted an Inter-Mechanism Dialogue between the African Commission on...

23 Feb

Posted at 14:23h in AfricanDefenders

See the Arabic translation here   [dflip id="25436" ][/dflip]  [dflip id="25439" ][/dflip] On Thursday, February 09, 2023, Soufi Ould Chein, President of the "Movement for Social Peace", responded to a summons from the police of his district, when he was notified that his file had been transferred to...

23 Feb

Posted at 08:25h in AfricanDefenders, Central Africa

The Human Rights Defenders Network in Central Africa (REDHAC), its Coalition REDHAC-Cameroon and AfricanDefenders (Pan-African Network of Human Rights Defenders) condemn with their utmost energy the attempted arrest as well as the inhuman and degrading treatment inflicted on the journalist and Director of Publication of...

21 Feb

Posted at 10:10h in AfricanDefenders

Bishoftu Declaration   African Human Rights Defenders at a Cross Road!   We, Human Rights Defenders from 36 African countries gathered at the margins of the 36th Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly (Heads of States and Governments Session) held from 15 to 17 February 2023 in Bishfotu,...

24 Jan

Posted at 09:59h in AfricanDefenders

[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]It is with utter shock and distress that DefendDefenders and AfricanDefenders have learned of the assassination of prominent African human rights defender and advocate, Thulani Maseko, who was shot dead at his home in Luhleko, Mbabane, on 21...