Statements

BEFORE THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS

Nov 2008 – 44 Ordinary Session (OS)

• Joint Statement on Housing Evictions in Abuja FCT – Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), IHRDA
• Joint Statement of on the Return of Expelled Mauritanians to Mauritania – IHRDA and FONADH

May 2009 – 45 OS

• Undue delay in the consideration of communications  -   IHRDA, INTERIGHTS, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR)
• Statement on Implementation of Decision of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on Communication 292/2004 IHRDA/Angola
• Statement on Strengthening Cooperation between the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child – Save the Children Sweden, PLAN International, African Child Policy Forum, IHRDA
• Statement on Grave and Massive Violation of the Right to Housing and Shelter – Forced Evictions in Chad – IHRDA

Nov 2009 – 46 OS

• Statement on reintegration of 144 summarily dismissed civil servants, victims of the mass expulsions of 1989 – IHRDA, Forum des Organisations Nationales des Droits de l’Homme (FONADH)
• Statement in Response to the Report Presented by the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa (agenda item – Rights of the Girl Child – PLAN International, IHRDA
• Statement on Strengthening Cooperation between the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child – IHRDA, Plan International, Save the Children Sweden

May 2010 – 47 OS

• Joint Statement on the Violation of the Right to Life, Physical Integrity and Right to Security in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo – IHRDA, Organisation Congolaise pour les droits de l’Homme (OCDH)
• Statement on the Implementation of the Decision of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on Communication 292/2004 IHRDA/Angola – IHRDA
• Statement on the State of Violence against Children in Schools – IHRDA, Plan International, Save the Children Sweden

Nov 2010 – 48 OS

• Statement on the strengthening of the cooperation between the ACmHPR and NHRIs
• Joint Statement on Death in Custody in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo – IHRDA, Organisation congolaise pour les droits de l’Homme (OCDH), Association pour les Droits de l’Homme et l’Univers Carceral (ADHUC)

Apr 2011 – 49 OS

• Joint Statement on the Reservations made by Egypt to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights – IHRDA, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)

Apr 2012 – 51 OS

• Statement on Extractive Industries and Human Rights in Africa – IHRDA
• Statement on the Protective Mandate of the African Commission – IHRDA
• Joint Statement on the Violation of Right to Security – The Massive Explosion of Munitions at Mpila, Brazzaville – IHRDA, Organisation congolaise pour les droits de l’Homme (OCDH), Association pour les Droits de l’Homme et l’Univers Carceral (ADHUC)

STATEMENTS BEFORE THE AFRICAN COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS ON THE RIGHTS AND WELFARE OF THE CHILD

Nov 2008 – 12 OS

• Statement on the Communication Procedure of the ACERWC

April 2009 – 13 OS

• Statement on the Communication Procedure of the ACERWC

November 2009 – 14 OS

• Statement on opportunities for the ACERWC to engage more with other bodies of the African Human Rights System

November 2010 -16 OS

• Statement on ACERWC-ACmHPR Cooperation and the Sentencing to Death of Minors in Sudan

WORLD REFUGEE DAY STATEMENTS

• Statement On World Refugee Day – Voluntary Repatriations of Expelled Mauritanians – 20 June 2009
• Still waiting after 3 and a half years: Mauritanian returnees still await restoration of citizenship documents and reparation for looted belonging – IHRDA Statement on World Refugee day, June 20 2011

DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD STATEMENTS

• Statement on the Celebration of the Day of the African Child – IHRDA Calls on DRC to Ratify African Charter on Rights and Welfare of the Child – 16 June 2009
• IHRDA Statement on Day of the African Child Calling on African States to Commit to the African Child by Budgeting for Children – June 2010
• Public Statement Kenya: Nubian Children Should be Given Nationality at Birth

WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY STATEMENTS

• Statement on World Press Freedom Day 2010

OTHER STATEMENTS / BRIEFING PAPERS

Feb 2008

• IHRDA Statement on its 10^th Anniversary – 10 Years of Standing Up for Human Rights in Africa

Oct 2008

• Briefing Paper on Mauritania: Repatriation of expellees – IHRDA, OSJI

Dec 2008

• Nigeria Must Solve Its Policy Of Indigene-Settler Discrimination To Stop Recurring Violence – 15 Dec 2008
• African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Finds in Favour of Gambians Expelled from Angola – 1 Dec 2008

March 2010

• IHRDA and Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) File Case on Behalf of Kenyan Nubian Minors against Kenya before the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

June 2010

• ‘New law to provide lawyers for poor persons in police stations and prisons’ IHRDA Op-ed on Legal Aid Act June 29 2010 – Published in Foroyaa Newspaper, Daily Observer.

August 2010

• Nigeria: The Impact of the Indigene/Settler Dichotomy on the Enjoyment of Fundamental Human Rights

September 2010

• IHRDA Celebrates Launch of the National Agency for Legal Aid (NALA) of The Gambia on 30 September 2010

June 2011

• IHRDA Statement Celebrating 30 years of the African Charter on  Human and Peoples’ Rights