This press release was first published by the West African Network of Human Rights Defenders MAURITANIA: Concerns over ethnical divisions, modern-day slavery and skin color hierarchy, the Member State of the United Nations Human Rights Council imprisoned ten people, including two Senegalese on trumped up charges On...
This article was first published by Réseau Ouest Africain des Défenseurs des Droits Humains - Roaddh/wahrdn Lome, Jan,30th 2020 Public disturbances on 26th January in Banjul -THE GAMBIA- On Sunday 26 January 2020, the Gambia which emerged from 22 years of dictatorship three years ago witnessed a heavy...
This press release was first published by the West African Human Rights Defenders Network Lome, February 3rd, 2020 Guinea is experiencing political dissension over the proposed constitutional reform and legislative elections scheduled for February 16th , 2020. Demonstrations called throughout the country by opposition political parties and...
On Friday, November 29, 2019, the Ivorian Coalition of Human Rights Defenders (CIDDH) held its Ordinary General Assembly. After the presentation of the balance sheets (moral and financial) and the exchanges, the assembly gave its discharge by show of hands to these two balance sheets. Also, during...
20 years after the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, where do we stand on the legal protection of defenders in West Africa? To assess the progress and challenges that remain in the region, ISHR, in collaboration with the West African Network...
Marthe Pedan Coulibaly, coordinator of the Ivorian Coalition of Human Rights Defenders (CIDDH) issued an oral statement on behalf of ISHR during the Universal Periodic Review of Côte d'Ivoire (September 19, 2019, 42nd session of the Human Rights Council). ...
