Banjul, 18 July 2024: IHRDA invites qualified and interested persons to apply for the position of Senior Legal Fellow at the African Commission on Human…
Bessem AyukJuly 18, 2024
July 24, 2025 In a Monumental Win for Women and Girls, ECOWAS Court Rules Sierra Leone Violated Rights by Failing to Criminalise FGM Press-release-FAHP-Ors-v-Sierra-LeoneDownload
Omar T JallowJuly 24, 2025
njul, 5 May 2025: IHRDA and Centre de Documentation et de Formation sur les Droits de l’Homme in joint statement addressed to the African Commission…
Bessem AyukMay 7, 2025
Banjul, 5 May 2025: Within the framework of a project to assess the level of child rights mainstreaming in national human rights policies, including National…
Bessem AyukMay 5, 2025
Banjul, 24 April 2025: The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), representing the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) of Malawi, has filed…
Omar T JallowApril 24, 2025
Banjul, 15 April 2025: The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has urged the Democratic republic of Congo (DRC) to immediately prosecute and…
Bessem AyukApril 15, 2025
Honourable Chairperson and Members of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (the Committee), Excellencies, Honourable State Delegates, Ladies…
Bessem AyukApril 14, 2025
Banjul, 8 April 2025: The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (the ECOWAS Court) has today, 8 April 2025, handed…
Bessem AyukApril 9, 2025
African Court admits RFK Human Rights, IHRDA as amici curiae in case on electoral rights in Tanzania
Banjul and Washington, D.C., 20 March 2025: The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Court) has granted the request by the Institute for…
Bessem AyukMarch 21, 2025
Banjul, 20 March 2025: The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS Court) has condemned Sierra Leone for failing to…
Bessem AyukMarch 20, 2025
One Year of Inaction: Sierra Leone fails to implement ECOWAS Court judgment on police accountability
Freetown, 3 March 2025 – One year after the landmark ruling by the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice (the Court) in the case of Mohamed…
Bessem AyukMarch 3, 2025
