BEFORE THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS
Nov 2008 – 44 Ordinary Session (OS)
- Joint Statement on Housing Evictions in Abuja FCT – Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), IHRDA
- Joint Statement of on the Return of Expelled Mauritanians to Mauritania – IHRDA and FONADH
May 2009 – 45 OS
- Undue delay in the consideration of communications – IHRDA, INTERIGHTS, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR)
- Statement on Implementation of Decision of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on Communication 292/2004 IHRDA/Angola
- Statement on Strengthening Cooperation between the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child – Save the Children Sweden, PLAN International, African Child Policy Forum, IHRDA
- Statement on Grave and Massive Violation of the Right to Housing and Shelter – Forced Evictions in Chad – IHRDA
Nov 2009 – 46 OS
- Statement on reintegration of 144 summarily dismissed civil servants, victims of the mass expulsions of 1989 – IHRDA, Forum des Organisations Nationales des Droits de l’Homme (FONADH)
- Statement in Response to the Report Presented by the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa (agenda item 8) – Rights of the Girl Child – PLAN International, IHRDA
- Statement on Strengthening Cooperation between the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child – IHRDA, Plan International, Save the Children Sweden
May 2010 – 47 OS
- Joint Statement on the Violation of the Right to Life, Physical Integrity and Right to Security in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo – IHRDA, Organisation Congolaise pour les droits de l’Homme (OCDH)
- Statement on the Implementation of the Decision of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on Communication 292/2004 IHRDA/Angola – IHRDA
- Statement on the State of Violence against Children in Schools – IHRDA, Plan International, Save the Children Sweden
Nov 2010 – 48 OS
- Statement on the strengthening of the cooperation between the ACmHPR and NHRIs
- Joint Statement on Death in Custody in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo – IHRDA, Organisation congolaise pour les droits de l’Homme (OCDH), Association pour les Droits de l’Homme et l’Univers Carceral (ADHUC)
Apr 2011 – 49 OS
Apr 2012 – 51 OS
- Statement on Extractive Industries and Human Rights in Africa – IHRDA
- Statement on the Protective Mandate of the African Commission – IHRDA
- Joint Statement on the Violation of Right to Security – The Massive Explosion of Munitions at Mpila, Brazzaville – IHRDA, Organisation congolaise pour les droits de l’Homme (OCDH), Association pour les Droits de l’Homme et l’Univers Carceral (ADHUC)
STATEMENTS BEFORE THE AFRICAN COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS ON THE RIGHTS AND WELFARE OF THE CHILD
Nov 2008 – 12 OS
April 2009 – 13 OS
November 2009 – 14 OS
- Statement on opportunities for the ACERWC to engage more with other bodies of the African Human Rights System
November 2010 -16 OS
WORLD REFUGEE DAY STATEMENTS – June 20
- Statement On World Refugee Day – Voluntary Repatriations of Expelled Mauritanians – 20 June 2009
- Still waiting after 3 and a half years: Mauritanian returnees still await restoration of citizenship and – IHRDA Statement on World Refugee day, June 20 2011
DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD STATEMENTS – June 16
- IHRDA Calls on DRC to Ratify African Charter on Rights and Welfare of the Child – 2009
- Kenya: Nubian Children Should be Given Nationality at Birth – 2011
WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY STATEMENTS
OTHER STATEMENTS / BRIEFING PAPERS
Feb 2008
Oct 2008
- Briefing Paper on Mauritania: Repatriation of expellees – IHRDA, OSJI
Dec 2008
- Nigeria Must Solve Its Policy of Indigene-Settler Discrimination to Stop Recurring Violence – 15 Dec 2008
- African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Finds in Favour of Gambians Expelled from Angola – 1 Dec 2008
March 2010
- IHRDA and Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) File Case on Behalf of Kenyan Nubian Minors against Kenya before the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
June 2010
- ‘New law to provide lawyers for poor persons in police stations and prisons’ IHRDA Op-ed on Legal Aid Act June 29 2010 – Published in Foroyaa Newspaper, Daily Observer.
August 2010
- Nigeria: The Impact of the Indigene/Settler Dichotomy on the Enjoyment of Fundamental Human Rights
September 2010
- IHRDA Celebrates Launch of the National Agency for Legal Aid (NALA) of The Gambia on 30 September 2010
June 2011
- IHRDA Statement Celebrating 30 years of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
