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....

 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...