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Reflections on the 60th session of the African Commission

Become a Safe Sister: Join The East African Women’s Digital Safety Fellowship

Explore More Opening Remarks: Training for Human Rights Defenders Working in the Resource Extraction Industry Gambia: PAHRDN Congratulates Winners of the First African Human Rights Defenders Awards Visit to Human Rights House by H.E. Fauzia Yusuf Haji, Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia

Defenders Speaking Out: “The regime in Eritrea is a crime in itself.”

On 8 June 2016, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea (COI) released its second report, finding that the government of Eritrea has committed crimes against humanity. The Commission found that “Crimes of enslavement, imprisonment, enforced disappearances, torture, persecution, rape, murder...

Defenders speaking out: challenges for women HRDs

Today, on 8 March, we celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women. Women are some of the bravest human rights defenders the DefendDefenders supports: they not only engage in the dangerous work of promoting human rights, but also do so in a context that is...

Celebrate International Women Human Rights Defenders Day – Share Your Experience

Today, 29th November, is International Women Human Rights Defenders’ Day. In recognition of the particular risks that women defenders face in carrying out their work and the fundamental importance of understanding the gender dimension of their experience, the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders in...