Africa
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Letter: Ethiopia Must Protect Freedom of Association
Tags Share To: Prime Minister-, Dr. Abiy Ahmed Cc: Tagesse Chafo, Speaker of the House of Peoples’ Representative 29 November 2018 Your Excellency, The undersigned international, regional and national human rights and development organisations write to urge your government to ensure that the draft Charities and Societies (CSO) Proclamation complies with regional and international human…
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UN: Western Sahara Media Worker was Arbitrarily Detained
Tags Share The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (“Working Group”) has determined that Mohamed al-Bambary, a Sahrawi media activist serving six years in prison as a result of his journalism, is being arbitrarily detained in Morocco. Freedom Now and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights announce today that on June 29, 2018, the Working…
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Government Shuts Down LGBTQ+ Event in Uganda
Tags Share We are deeply troubled to learn that the Ugandan government ordered Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) to shut down their event today commemorating the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT). This unjustified order, issued by the Ugandan Minister of State for Ethics and Integrity, arbitrarily disrupts SMUG’s celebration of a day dedicated…
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Deteriorating Civic Space in Tanzania
Civil society calls on the Tanzanian Government to address the rapidly deteriorating environment for media, human rights defenders, and opposition party members.
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Solitary Confinement in Egypt’s Prisons
A new report from Amnesty International features testimony from RFK Human Rights’ clients.
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Numerous Errors in State Department’s Western Sahara Human Rights Report
Tags Share May 3, 2018 The Honorable Michael PompeoSecretary of StateU.S. Department of State2201 C Street, NWWashington, DC 20520 Dear Secretary Pompeo, We are writing to bring to your attention several extremely problematic sections of the recently released Western Sahara 2017 Human Rights Report. As you know, the State Department’s annual human rights reports are…
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Protect Egyptian Human Rights Defenders, Both Home and Abroad
Tags Share The undersigned civil society organisations express their outrage at the latest death threats targeting the Director of Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Bahey el-Din Hassan, as a result of his human rights work on Egypt in Europe and the US. On 21 March 2018, in reaction to a memo sent by…
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Dispatch from 6th International Conference on Peoples’ Right to Resistance
Tags Share Recently, I traveled to Algiers, Algeria to attend the 6th International Conference on the Peoples’ Right to Resistance: The Case of the Sahrawi People. The conference was organized by the Algerian National Committee of Solidarity with the Sahrawi People (CNASPS) and the Embassy of the Sahrawi Arabic Democratic Republic in Algeria, and included…
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Attack on Mozambique Human Rights Defender Raises New Concerns
Tags Share 3 April 2018 It is with sadness that the undersigned civil society organisations express deep concern about the attack on Mozambique human rights defender, Ericino de Salema, which took place in Maputo on 27th March 2018. Mr Salema, a journalist, a rights activist and political analyst was allegedly kidnapped by unknown gunmen in…
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Joint Letter to Ethiopian Prime Minister-Designate
Tags Share Prime Minister-Designate, Dr. Abiy Ahmed AliCc: Abadula Gemeda, Speaker of the House of Peoples’ Representative Your Excellencies, The undersigned international, regional and national human rights and development organisations write to express our grave concern over the recent arrest of 11 Ethiopian journalists, bloggers and political opposition leaders amid a new crackdown on fundamental…
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African Union Must Respond to Freedom of Expression Concerns Across the Continent
Tags Share A number of African governments are increasingly clamping down on freedom of expression. In an attempt to hold onto power and silence dissent, many governments in the region have routinely disrupted the enjoyment of civil and political rights. Freedom of expression is the first step towards identifying shared commonalities where the governments talk…
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