Category: Human rights defenders
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“Giving legal aid is like giving hope”
Promoting free legal aid is paramount in supporting access to justice for people living in vulnerable situations. Avocats Sans Frontières, in partnership with the Uganda Law Society, is mobilizing lawyers to defend the basic rights of Ugandans. Akello Suzan Apita is one of the 16 lawyers engaged in this endeavor.
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“We are caught between a rock and a hard place”
President of a human rights defence association, Rénovat Ninahazwe is a Burundian human rights defender at risk. As a result of serious threats, he has had to leave his country, finding temporary refuge in Uganda with the help of Avocats Sans Frontières. He and his family are being taken care of in the context of…
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Access to justice on the post-2015 agenda
Avocats Sans Frontières, along with fellow human rights organisations all over the world, has called for the post-2015 development agenda to be embedded with a human rights framework to ensure both sustainability and justice. Especially important for ASF is the emphasis on the role of access to justice as a human right that guarantees all…
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Why is justice without borders?
Who better to respond to this question than ASF’s Heads of Mission and Regional Representatives, based in different countries worldwide. They have gathered for ten days of intensive briefing at ASF’s headquarters in Brussels and they share their views about the core of the organisation’s mandate: the defense of human rights.
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Being a lawyer, a high-risk profession
Whether they are members of civil society organizations, lawyers or media professionals, human rights defenders have a common objective: promote and protect human rights. They are often confronted with attempts to limit their work such as threats, harassment, and sometimes torture or even murder. That is why ASF and the East Africa Law Society are…
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Chebeya, a landmark trial in danger of stalling
One year after the start of the Chebeya appeal trial, Avocats Sans Frontières fears the proceedings are stalling. The NGO is calling on the Congolese judicial authorities and the persons implicated in the proceedings to ensure the trial takes place without hindrance or intimidation.
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Resumption of the Chebeya affair: ASF hopes for a victory for the truth
Kinshasa/Brussels, 17 July 2012 – Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) hopes that the continuation of the Chebeya trial will offer a new opportunity to reveal the truth, within the framework of a fair trial.
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ASF supports Human Rights Defenders in five African countries
Nairobi, Kenya – Lawyers and other human rights defenders (HRDs) are often directly targeted when they speak out against local authorities who are at times responsible for human rights violations.
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The OLUCOME Trial: a verdict but no truth
Bujumbura/Brussels, June 7th, 2012- Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) believes that the verdict announced 22May does not reflect the whole truth surrounding the murder of Ernest Manirumva, Vice President of the Burundian civil society group, Anti-corruption and Economic Malpractice Observatory (Observatoire de Lutte contre la Corruption et les Malversations Économiques [OLUCOME]).
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“The Chebeya affair”: Justice on the big screen
Upon release of the documentary The Cheyeba affair. Duty of Justice today in Belgian theaters, Avocats Sans Frontières reemphasises the need for impartial justice in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.