Déclaration et Plan d’action d’Accra pour la protection des défenseurs des droits humains agréés par les institutions nationales des droits humains en Afrique et les défenseurs des droits humains Première réunion consultative, tenue à Accra (Ghana) les 5 et 6 décembre 2022 PRÉAMBULE Nous, Participants à la...
Mrs. Soyata Maiga, Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Banjul, Gambia Dear Chairperson, Re: Protest Petition against the poor treatment accorded to civil society organisations during the 38th forum of the NGO forum preceding the 64th session of the ordinary session in Sharma El Sheikh...
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...
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances On 13 April 2015, Sandra Kodouda, a Sudanese human rights defender (HRD), was abducted in Khartoum, Sudan by a group of unidentified men. Three days later she returned home with a dislocated shoulder and clear signs of physical...
On 14 June 2019, AfricanDefenders (Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network) acknowledged and awarded distinguished human rights defenders (HRDs) on the African continent for their contribution to the advancement of human rights. The winners, Beatrice Mtetwa, Felix Agbor Aniyor, Donald Deya, Fatou Jagne Senghor, and the...
