Category: Human rights defenders
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Capacity-building of East African Public Interest Advocates: Empowering a new generation of Human Rights Defenders
In Tanzania, ASF supported the East Africa Emerging Public Interest Advocates Programme (EAEPIAP) carried out by the Center for Strategic Litigation. The EAEPIAP is a training and mentorship programme for young legal professionals committed to social justice and human rights. The programme empowers young advocates through rigorous skills-based training and practical experience in using the…
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Access to Remedy: Community Rights Undermined in Kenya’s Conservancies
Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) have released a new report exposing serious and persistent human rights violations linked to the operations of community conservancies in Isiolo County, northern Kenya. The report highlights a troubling pattern: while conservation initiatives flourish, the communities whose lands and livelihoods are most affected…
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ExPEERience Talk #16 – Morocco and Tunisia: How Do Citizens Perceive Minor Offences and Alternatives to Prison?
In Morocco and Tunisia, criminal laws continue to punish behaviour linked to precariousness, marginalisation, or activism. As part of the Campaign to Decriminalise Poverty, Status and Activism, Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) has conducted two national surveys (in Morocco and Tunisia) on the perception of minor offences and alternative sentences. To share these surveys, ASF invites…
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ExPEERience Talk #15: Oil, Human Rights and Local Communities in Uganda – Insights from the HEATED report on TotalEnergies and CNOOC oil projects
As the development of oil projects in Uganda enters a critical new phase, human rights abuses are intensifying. The report HEATED: Human Rights, Frontline Communities, and Oil in Uganda highlights serious abuses affecting local communities, particularly concerning projects led by industry giants such as TotalEnergies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). Against this…
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“Homeless, not guilty”, an online webinar on the decriminalisation of poverty, status and activism
The Fondation Abbé Pierre, FEANTSA and Avocats Sans Frontières are organising an online webinar as part of the global campaign to decriminalise poverty, status, and activism.
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The Justice ExPEERience network keeps growing: evolution and new features
Justice ExPEERience celebrated its 3rd anniversary this summer! To mark the occasion, the network’s coordination team is proud to present the Justice ExPEERience annual report.
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The Central African Republic – Protecting human rights defenders
ASF and its partners in the Central African Republic are supporting women human rights defenders in order to enable them to offer appropriate support and quality services to people in vulnerable situations in their needs for justice and guidance.
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Working in Niger after the coup d’état
Since the opening of te ASF office in Niger in 2023, the country has experienced major political upheaval, including the coup d’état in July 2023. This article outlines how ASF and its partners adapted their action to the evolving context to better accompany local populations in their needs of justice.
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Policy Brief – Analysing Civic Space in East Africa through a judicial lens
For the past years, civic space has been described as “shrinking” in many countries around the world. The adoption of restrictive laws, the harassment of journalists, the arrest and detention of human rights defenders, the suspension of activities or freezing of accounts of civil society organisations, are common tactics used by states to restrict civic…
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No to the introduction of “malicious undermining of State authority” in the Belgian Penal Code
ASF joins more than 500 signatories from associations, universities, the judiciary and civil society in warning of the danger of the introduction in the new Belgian criminal code of the offence of malicious attack on the authority of the State.