Joint Public Statement: AFR 38/001/2015 On 15 January 2015, the court of Rosso, a town in southern Mauritania, sentenced three anti-slavery activists and human rights…
Brief Facts Interights, the Institute Human Rights and Development in Africa and Association Mauritanienne des Droits de l’Homme filed communication 242/01 against Mauritania in April…
Brief Facts Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) (Complainant) filed communication 294/04 before the African…
Brief facts In 1983 Force de Liberation Africaine de Mauritanie (FLAM) requested to have a discourse with the government and to raise their concerns about…
Brief Facts Following the overthrow of the former Government of Ethiopia (commonly referred to as the Dergue regime) by the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front…
Brief Facts The Communication was filed on behalf of Capital Radio (Private) Limited (CRPL) an independent electronic broadcasting company in Zimbabwe. The Complainants alleged that…
Over 70 participants have today come together in Nouakchott to discuss transitional justice and reconciliation in Mauritania. The Colloquium, organised by Forum des organisations nationales…
IHRDA, with the support of Open Society Institute for West Africa (OSIWA), was pleased to support the Southern Cameroons Peoples Organisation (SCAPO) to travel to…
IHRDA and Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) 49th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 28 April-12 May 2011…
Human rights defenders attending a conference to promote the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Malawi have called for concerted efforts to ensure…