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Publication Launch: The State of African Human Rights Defenders 2016
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07 May 2017
Publication Launch: The State of African Human Rights Defenders 2016
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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
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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
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AfricanDefenders
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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.
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Western Africa
23
Feb
2023
ATTEMPTED ARREST, INHUMAN AND DEGRADING TREATMENT OF JOURNALIST XAVIER MESSE, PUBLICATION DIRECTOR OF THE PRIVATE JOURNAL “LE CALAME”
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AfricanDefenders
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Central Africa
06
May
2021
Statement on the attack of Barrister Legenju Vitalis
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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.
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East & Horn of Africa
08
Apr
2024
Joint submission ahead of Ethiopia’s fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
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East & Horn of Africa
04
Apr
2024
South Sudan: international human rights scrutiny will cover 2024 elections
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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
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AfricanDefenders
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Southern Africa
28
Feb
2022
REPORT OF THE 2021 SOUTHERN DEFENDERS SUMMIT
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AfricanDefenders
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Southern Africa
02
Feb
2022
Media release on the arbitrary detention and torture of student leaders in Eswatini
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Southern Africa
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