22 Oct

Posted at 18:36h in AfricanDefenders

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]At the 81st session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) and the NGO Forum, we focused on amplifying the challenges faced by Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) across Africa. Our interventions during this session were...

11 Mar

Posted at 10:29h in AfricanDefenders

KAMPALA, Uganda and GENEVA, Switzerland,11 March 2024 - AfricanDefenders (Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network) and the Committee for Justice (CFJ) have jointly petitioned the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, on behalf of Mr. Ahmed Salem, Director of the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights....

18 Jun

Posted at 07:25h in AfricanDefenders, Central Africa, East & Horn of Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa, Western Africa

 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 human...