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LATEST STORIES
FROM AFRICANDEFENDERS
23
Dec
2020
Joint Civil Society Statement on the Arrest and Arbitrary Detention of Ugandan Human Rights Defenders
18
Dec
2020
End of year statement 2020
18
Nov
2020
NEWS from AfricanDefenders| September & October 2020
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Northern Africa
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Central Africa
East & Horn of Africa
Southern Africa
23
Nov
2020
Libya must end systematic impunity and investigate the killing of lawyer and political activist Hanan al-Barassi
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Northern Africa
23
Nov
2020
Egypt: Solidarity with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights Urged by Human Rights Community in Open Letter to Ambassadors and Diplomats
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Northern Africa
10
Nov
2020
Egypt: Government called on to end internet censorship and website blocking
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Northern Africa
26
Oct
2020
Nigeria: Respect the freedom of assembly
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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
12
May
2020
WAHRDN’s statement on the decision of Benin and Côte d’Ivoire to withdraw their declaration under Article 34(6) of the Protocol of the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights
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Western 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
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Central Africa
30
Apr
2020
Cameroon must protect human rights defenders – UN experts
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Central Africa
28
Apr
2020
Cameroon: Reseau Des Defenseurs Des Droits Humains En Afrique Centrale’s statement on the massacres in Ngarbuh
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Central Africa
11
Jan
2021
Security and safety during elections
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East & Horn of Africa
23
Nov
2020
PRESS STATEMENT ON STATE OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AND NHRI CONSTITUTION
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East & Horn of Africa
02
Nov
2020
Final Communiqué on the 6th hybrid EHAHRD-Net focal point meeting
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East & Horn of Africa
10
Nov
2020
THE SOUTHERN AFRICA HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS NETWORK CONDEMNS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES FOLLOWING ELECTIONS IN TANZANIA
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Southern Africa
10
Nov
2020
SOUTHERN AFRICA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP: MOZAMBIQUE – THE BUILDING POWER TO DEFEND HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIC SPACE
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Southern Africa
26
Oct
2020
THE KILLING OF SOMKHELE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST, FIKILE NTSHANGASE
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Southern Africa
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