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Publication Launch: The State of African Human Rights Defenders 2016

on 07 May 2017

Publication Launch: The State of African Human Rights Defenders 2016

on 07 May 2017
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LATEST STORIES

FROM AFRICANDEFENDERS

19
Jul
2024

Guinea: The return of arbitrary arrests

26
Jun
2024

Kenya: Stop Police Brutality Against Peaceful Protesters

09
May
2024

Communiqué on the Detention of Human Rights Defenders in Tunisia

FROM MEMBERS

  • Northern Africa
  • Western Africa
  • Central Africa
  • East & Horn of Africa
  • Southern Africa
11
Apr
2022

Egypt: Atrocious prison conditions require genuine rather than superficial changes to the law regulating prisons

from Northern Africa
28
Feb
2022

Egypt: Government must immediately close Case 173 and end assault on human rights organisations and defenders

from Northern Africa
07
Feb
2022

Egypt: Authorities must repeal the outrageous NGO law

from Northern Africa
25
Apr
2022

Civil society organizations strongly condemn the arrest of SET officials and demand their immediate release

from Western Africa
26
Oct
2020

Nigeria: Respect the freedom of assembly

from AfricanDefenders|Western Africa
27
May
2020

The West African Human Rights Defenders Network (WAHRDN) denounces a counter-terrorism imbued with a silent genocide on the Fulani people in Burkina Faso.

from Western Africa
23
Feb
2023

ATTEMPTED ARREST, INHUMAN AND DEGRADING TREATMENT OF JOURNALIST XAVIER MESSE, PUBLICATION DIRECTOR OF THE PRIVATE JOURNAL “LE CALAME”

from AfricanDefenders|Central Africa
06
May
2021

Statement on the attack of Barrister Legenju Vitalis

from Central Africa
07
Dec
2020

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND ASSEMBLY AT RISK: ARBITRARY ARREST AND DETENTION OF THREE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS M. KEMBA DIDAH ALAIN FORMER SPOKES PERSON OF THE “LYNIA” MOVEMENT AND CURRENT COORDINATOR OF THE CITIZEN MOVEMENT LE TEMPS (MCT), AND HIS COLLEAGUES MR. BESSANE PRAISES AND MR. SALEH MAHAMADOU ON FM LIBERTE RADIO IN CHAD

from Central Africa
03
May
2024

A Press for the Planet: Journalism in the Face of the Environmental Crisis.

from East & Horn of Africa
08
Apr
2024

Joint submission ahead of Ethiopia’s fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

from East & Horn of Africa
04
Apr
2024

South Sudan: international human rights scrutiny will cover 2024 elections

from East & Horn of Africa
24
Jan
2023

SouthernDefenders Strongly Condemns the Heinous Assassination of Renowned Human Rights Lawyer Thulani Maseko, Calls for a Swift and Thorough Investigation and Urges SADC to Urgently Act on the Escalating Political Crisis in Eswatini

from AfricanDefenders|Southern Africa
28
Feb
2022

REPORT OF THE 2021 SOUTHERN DEFENDERS SUMMIT

from AfricanDefenders|Southern Africa
02
Feb
2022

Media release on the arbitrary detention and torture of student leaders in Eswatini

from Southern Africa