A campaign about African women human rights defenders and courage By AfricanDefenders & DefendDefenders Illustrations: Primordial M Story: Gentrix Barasa THE STORY OF MARTHA (1:3) Listen to the podcast here: [audio mp3="https://africandefenders.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Martha-final.mp3"][/audio] A woman could be heard screaming from a distance in the town square. The distinct sound of a whip hitting...
In a new report launched today, Navigating Justice: Lawyers as Human Rights Defenders in Ethiopia and Somalia/Somaliland, DefendDefenders examines the work of lawyers to identify their best practices, vulnerabilities, and needs in these rapidly changing environments. This report outlines several avenues governments, donors, and non-governmental organisations...
The Defenders Coalition (National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders in Kenya) and the Working Group on Human Rights Defenders announced today the winners of the 2019 Human Rights Defenders awards during a ceremony held in Nairobi at the Residence of the French Ambassador. The 2019 winners...
The National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders-Uganda(NCHRD-U) has today launched the National Human Rights Defenders Referral Network in a half day meeting officiated by the Uganda Human Rights Commissioner Hon.Meddie Mulumba. The Referral Network consists of 35 civil society organisations and is aimed at creating an...
I had the honour in my capacity as Chairperson of AfricanDefenders and Executive Director of DefendDefenders to lead a joint delegation of more than 20 persons, including staff and human rights defenders (HRDs) from Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Uganda to attend the...
1.0 Introduction. Tanzanian Human Rights Defenders Coalition (THRDC) together with the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) are greatly saddened and disappointed by the withdrawal of the Government United Republic of Tanzania from the Declaration that allows citizens and Civil Society Organizations to directly file complaints...
