The Executive Director of the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project has joined together with fifteen other global leaders and activists to call on the United States Congress to support reforms to fight corruption and strengthen human rights around the world. For more information on this campaign, please see: www.oxfamamerica.org/fightcorruption. Dear [...]
Uganda: EHAHRDP Congratulates Gerald Kankya on Winning EU HRD Award
The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project congratulates Gerald Kankya, Program Coordinator of the Twerwaneho Listeners Club (TLC), on winning the inaugural European Union Human Rights Defender Award in Uganda. Mr Kankya was honoured at a reception at the Swedish ambassador’s residence on 2nd May in Kampala.
Banjul: Governments of Somalia and Ethiopia Should Respect ACHPR Resolutions
On World Press Freedom Day, the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network welcomes two resolutions adopted by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) raising concerns about the situation of journalists in Somalia and Ethiopia. The 51st Ordinary Session of the ACHPR that took place in Banjul, The Gambia, began [...]
Somalia: Human Rights Defenders Trained in Mogadishu
Nineteen Somali human rights defenders benefitted from a capacity-building training in Mogadishu organised jointly by the Human Rights Unit of the United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS), the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) and Protection International (PI) in March 2012.
Overview of the Human Rights Situation in the East and Horn of Africa November 2011 – April 2012
Overview of the Human Rights Situation
in the East and Horn of Africa
November 2011 – April 2012
Report submitted at the 51st Ordinary Session of the
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)
Banjul, The Gambia, April 2012
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