19 Dec

Posted at 11:34h in AfricanDefenders, Afrique Centrale, Afrique De L'ouest, Afrique du Nord, Afrique du sud, Central Africa, Defenders, East & Horn of Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa

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...

26 Sep

Posted at 12:58h in Afrique du sud

Remarks by Arnold Tsunga, SAHRDN's Chairperson  6 February 2019  The Southern African Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN) is a sub-regional network that works to protect and promote the rights of HRDS within the sub-region of Southern Africa. It offers rapid and practical support to HRDs facing persecution...

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...

26 Sep

Posted at 12:51h in Afrique du sud, DéfenseursAfricains

As civil society organisations from across the region, we are concerned by the increased arrests of human rights defenders in Zimbabwe. In 2019 alone, numerous human rights defenders have been arrested, detained and charged with offences such as ‘subverting constitutional government’ and ‘participating in gathering with...