We filed the communication before the ACHPR on 2 October 2018. The violations in this case occurred during military operations in a battle between DRC soldiers and rebels in November 2012. The case was filed on behalf of 1016 victims, including 115 women and 33 girls, who suffered many violations (torture, rape, killings, looting etc.) perpetrated […]
Case of torture resulting in miscarriage, against DRC
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We filed the complaint before the ACHPR on 24 September 2018. The case pertains to police arrest and torture of Cathy Basongo (member of the civil society group called Filimbi) in September 2016 following a sit-down protest organized by Filimbi to pressurize the electoral commission to publish the electoral calendar. During the incident, she was severely […]
Gambia Public Order Act case
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In September 2018, IHRDA filed a case against The Gambia before the ACHPR, challenging certain provisions of the Public Order Act which are in contravention of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights concerning the rights of freedom of assembly, association and expression.
IHRDA organizes training workshop for Litigants’ Group on Transitional Justice Litigation & Advocacy before African Commission
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Banjul, 29 November 2018 The “Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa” (IHRDA) is organizing a training workshop for members of the “Litigants’ Group for the Strengthening of the Protective Mandate of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights” (the Litigants’ Group), on transitional justice litigation and advocacy before the African Commission. The […]
Communiqué: Launching of ARTICLE 19 & IHRDA EU-funded project to strengthen human rights standards in The Gambia
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Banjul, 19 November 2018 ARTICLE 19 West Africa, in partnership with IHRDA, is officially launching its European Union-funded project to strengthen human rights standards in The Gambia on 21 November 2018 at Dunda Hall, Atlantic Hotel, Banjul, The Gambia starting at 10:00am. The launch will be presided over by Hon. Mariam Jack-Denton – Speaker of the […]
Job Announcement: Consultant – Women in Prison Project at Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice
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31 October 2018 The Vance Center seeks to hire a part-time consultant for a period of two years. The consultant, based in Nairobi, Kenya, will work with the Human Rights and Access to Justice Program of the Vance Center and Vance Center partner organization in Kenya, CleanStart, on a new project to study the causes, […]
Civil Society Joint Declaration Responding to the Attacks on the Independence of the ACHPR
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Civil Society Joint Declaration Responding to the Attacks on the Independence of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR): 24 October 2018, Banjul, The Gambia Civil Society Joint Declaration – ACHPR Independence – Oct 2018
Statement of IHRDA at the 63rd Ordinary Session of the ACHPR, October 2018: Addressing the interference of AU policy organs in the independence and mandate of the ACHPR
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Banjul, 26 October 2018: Madam Chairperson and Honourable Commissioners of the African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights, Distinguished African State Representatives, The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa wishes to commend the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights for the great work it has done in the promotion and protection of […]
Strategic Litigation on Transitional Justice in Africa: IHRDA organizes training & case-identification workshop with lawyers, CSOs in Anglophone Africa
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Banjul, 26 September 2018 IHRDA, in collaboration with the Network of Public Interest Lawyers, School of Law, Makerere University, Uganda, is organizing a training and case-identification workshop from 26-28 September 2018 in Kampala, Uganda on litigating matters related to transitional justice in Africa. The workshop brings together thirty lawyers and civil society activists from selected […]
IHRDA, FGI obtain ground-breaking decision in child rape case against Cameroon
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Banjul, 7 September 2018: The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) has issued a ground-breaking decision in favour of the plaintiffs in “Communication 006/Com/002/2015: Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa and Finders’ Group Initiative (on behalf of TFA, minor) v. Republic of Cameroon”. In the decision […]
