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…
Close to 100,000 black Mauritanians were forcibly expelled to Senegal and Mali by the then Mauritanian Government, after being stripped of proof of their citizenship.…
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 The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) filed communication 249/02 (on behalf of Sierra Leonean refugees in Guinea) before the…
Brief Facts Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) and the Institute for Human Right and Development in Africa (IHRDA) filed communication 293/04 before African Commission…
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…