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
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, 5 August 2024: IHRDA and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights welcome the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ landmark decision finding that Government…
Bessem AyukAugust 6, 2024
Banjul, 27 Jan. 2021: IHRDA and a team of Gambian lawyers have today 27 January 2021 obtained a favorable decision from the Gambia Supreme Court…
Brice Martial DjeugoueFebruary 8, 2021
Banjul, 12 December 2019: The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (the ECOWAS Court) has ruled that the Republic of…
Brice Martial DjeugoueDecember 13, 2019
The case was filed before the ACHPR on 21 March 2019 on behalf of a Rwandan refugee based in Gambia, who fled Rwanda several years…
Brice Martial DjeugoueMarch 21, 2019
Banjul, 17/05/2018 - The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), international women's rights organisation Equality Now, and various human rights organizations in Sierra Leone have filed…
Brice Martial DjeugoueMay 17, 2018
Bamako, Mali - 25 April 2018 In 2014, IHRDA had filed a case against Malawi before the ACERWC, challenging the definition of child in Malawi’s…
Brice Martial DjeugoueApril 25, 2018
Banjul, 7 March 2018 The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) and the West Africa Office of the High Commissioner for Human…
Brice Martial DjeugoueMarch 8, 2018
Banjul, 1 February 2018 IHRDA condemns the unlawful arrest and detention of Political Scientist, Dr Ismaila Ceesay, by The Gambia Police on 31 January 2018…
Brice Martial DjeugoueFebruary 1, 2018
