22 Oct

Posted at 18:36h in AfricanDefenders

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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....

11 Dec

Posted at 09:17h in AfricanDefenders

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23 Nov

Posted at 11:30h in Northern Africa

Source: The Cairo Institute of Human Studies  Your Excellency, In solidarity with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), we are human rights organisations and initiatives writing to express our utmost concern regarding the unprecedented and alarming escalation against EIPR, one of Egypt’s oldest and most reputable human rights...