AFRIQUE DU SUD

SOUTHERN AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS NETWORK

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Angola | Botswana | Lesotho | Malawi | Mozambique | Afrique du sud | Zambie | Zimbabwe

Le réseau des défenseurs des droits humains en Afrique australe (Southern Defenders) est un réseau régional de défenseurs des droits humains composé de représentants des organisations de défense des droits humains de dix pays d’Afrique australe. Il a été créé en février 2013 avec pour mandat principal de coordonner la protection et la sécurité des DDH dans la région et de renforcer leur capacité à travailler dans leurs pays respectifs, face à une répression soutenue par l’État. Le secrétariat de SAHRDN est hébergé par le bureau sud-africain de la Commission internationale de juristes (CIJ), une organisation de défense des droits humains et de l’état de droit dans le monde entier.

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Les coalitions

Human Rights Defenders Coalition – Malawi

DERNIÈRES MISES À JOUR

19
Dec
2024

Stand With REDHAC: Defending Civic Space and Human Rights in Cameroon

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
2019

Launch of Ubuntu Hub Cities for the protection of HRDs

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
26
Sep
2019

Communique on the AfricanDefenders Convention (Johannesburg+20 Conference)

 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
26
Sep
2019

The Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network marks the International Day in Support for the Victims of Torture

This Statement was first published by (SAHRDN), Johannesburg, South Africa Today, 26 June 2019, marks 32 years since the coming into force of the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The Convention is the main international mechanism
26
Sep
2019

INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST TORTURE: A CALL BY AFRICAN CIVIL SOCIETY FOR REFORM IN ZIMBABWE

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
25
Sep
2019

Malawi: An Urgent Appeal to Release Mr. Gift Trapence and McDonald Sembereka

Johannesburg and Kampala: 12 July 2019 The Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN) jointly with the Pan African Human Rights Defenders Network (AfricanDefenders) call on Malawi authorities  to immediately release two detained human rights defenders (HRDs). Gift Trapence and McDonald Sembereka. Mr.  Trapence is