26 Sep

Posted at 12:53h in Afrique Centrale, Afrique De L'ouest, Afrique du Nord, Afrique du sud, DéfenseursAfricains, Est Et Corne De L'afrique

 1.  Twenty years after the All African Human Rights Defenders Conference held in Johannesburg in 1999, AfricanDefenders (the Pan African Human Rights Defenders Network) convened the AfricanDefenders Convention (Johannesburg+20) from 12-14 June 2019 in Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania. 2 . The Convention brought together human...

25 Sep

Posted at 11:24h in Afrique du Nord, DéfenseursAfricains

  25 July 2019 H. E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, We write  to you in your capacity as the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, the secretariat of the continental organisation responsible for driving the political agenda and development of the people of Africa. As Chairperson of the AU...

25 Sep

Posted at 00:28h in Afrique du Nord

This article was first published by CIHRS The undersigned organizations reject the draft NGO law currently before the Egyptian parliament. Presented as an alternative to the widely-criticized Law 70 of 2017, the draft NGO is simply a rebranding of the current repressive law. It is animated...

25 Sep

Posted at 00:23h in Afrique Centrale, Afrique De L'ouest, Afrique du Nord, Afrique du sud, DéfenseursAfricains, Est Et Corne De L'afrique

On 14 June 2019, AfricanDefenders (Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network) acknowledged and awarded distinguished human rights defenders (HRDs) on the African continent for their contribution to the advancement of human rights. The winners, Beatrice Mtetwa, Felix Agbor Aniyor, Donald Deya,  Fatou Jagne Senghor, and the...