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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

21
Jan
2022

Call for consultancy: Conducting needs assessments of sub-regional networks of AfricanDefenders

18
Dec
2021

Joint statement on Togo’s escalating repression against journalists and civil society activists

30
Nov
2021

Advocacy at the 69 Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

FROM MEMBERS

  • Northern Africa
  • Western Africa
  • Central Africa
  • East & Horn of Africa
  • Southern Africa
21
Jun
2021

Ethiopia: United Nations urged to take action on human rights crisis in Tigray

from AfricanDefenders|East & Horn of Africa|Northern Africa
21
Jun
2021

Algeria: Criminalisation of Fundamental Freedoms Requires Urgent Response

from AfricanDefenders|Northern Africa
20
Jun
2021

Algeria: UN member states must pressure Algerian government to end crackdown on fundamental freedoms

from AfricanDefenders|Northern 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
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

from Western 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
30
Apr
2020

Cameroon must protect human rights defenders – UN experts

from Central Africa
06
Dec
2021

PRESS RELEASE : WINNERS OF THE 2021 HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AWARDS ANNOUNCED

from East & Horn of Africa
16
Aug
2021

Burundi: Release Lawyer Tony Germain Nkina

from East & Horn of Africa
16
Aug
2021

Taita Taveta land rights activists jailed for mobilising community members

from East & Horn of Africa
16
Aug
2021

STATEMENT BY THE SOUTHERN AFRICA HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS NETWORK (SOUTHERN DEFENDERS) ON ELECTIONS IN ZAMBIA

from Southern Africa
24
May
2021

The Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network, Mosaiko, and the Angolan Protection Desk condemn the killing of protesters and the continuous unlawful detention of GodinhoCristóvão, Joana Janja and Ermenengildo Teotonioi in Angola.

from Southern Africa
20
Apr
2021

Zimbabwe Human Rights Defenders Assets and Needs Assessment Report

from Southern Africa