Yesterday, we successfully honored our beloved Mama Victor with a befitting send-off at her home in Seme, Kisumu. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you for your generous contributions and unwavering support during this difficult time.

#BreakingNews‌
KHRC has filed a lawsuit against three cabinet secretaries because their negligence caused deaths and displacements during floodings.
More: khrc.or.ke/news/kenyan-go…

World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, 17 May – promotes the potential of the #Internet & other information and communication technologies (ICTs) to transform societies and economies tinyurl.com/5apvumdy Int’l Telecommunication Union #WTISD #WTISD 2024

Today, we're sharing an important update about the location of #RightsCon 2025: the 13th edition of our Summit Series will now take place in Taipei, Taiwan, and online, from February 24-27, 2025.

📣 Join us tomorrow at the 79th African Commission on Human & People's Rights (African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights)

⏰ 2:30 PM GMT (Banjul Local Time) / 4:30 CAT (Khartoum Local Time) / 5:30 EAT (Cairo Local Time)

📺 TUNE IN LIVE via this link on SIHA Network's YouTube Channel:

📢 Call for inputs: Contribute to my next report to the UN General Assembly, on the contributions of human rights defenders to the Sustainable Development Goals.
🗓️ Deadline: 4 June 2024
👇 Info here in EN, ES, FR, AR, RU.
srdefenders.org/submit-informa…

Backlash, status quo, resistance to change... Women's rights are constantly being challenged.

#UNTF stands for women human rights and the need to end all forms of #VAWG . NOW. 📣 ✊

[Call for Applications]
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The @centreforhumanrights will host a one-week intensive short course on Children's Rights in Africa from 17 – 21 June 2024.

Apply online at chr.up.ac.za/ahrc before 6 June 2024

We are on YouTube! Subscribe to our channel: African Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders. Stay up to date with the latest news, content and journey to safeguarding WHRDs in Africa and beyond.

Missed our anniversary video? Watch it here: WHRD Initiative One Year

To all the Mothers, Aunties, Grandmothers & Caregivers across Africa and beyond; Our first defenders.

You nurture us, our hopes and aspirations, fight for us, and inspire us. We see you and we celebrate you and your strength, today and always.

Happy Mother's Day 💓

I do not believe in the voice of the voiceless. I believe each and every one of us has a voice, what is missing are platforms for us to express our voices. Let's create inclusive platforms. If you are on a platform& you see that a group isn't there, advocate for their inclusion

📔♀️ This report looks into legal approaches to protect #WHRDs from tech-facilitated gender-based violence.

Check out the full report to learn more about the impact of OGBV on WHRDs in the Indo-Pacific region: icnl.org/post/report/on…

⁦António Guterres⁩ speaking at the #2924UNCSC acknowledges the work of #CSO despite increased crisis and continued attack on #WHRDs , #HRDs and #humanitarian workers. We need protection of all actors by governments and ⁦United Nations⁩ #PactOfTheFuture #SummitOfTheFuture

You are too kind, my comrades! I am truly humbled by this message. I myself owe you a debt of gratitude because I have been greatly inspired by your fascinating work. Aluta continua!

In Memoriam: Honoring the Legacy of Justice Jennifer Yvonne Mokgoro (19 Oct 1950 - 09 May 2024)

The African Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders African Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders mourns a titan of justice whose legacy transcends boundaries. Justice Jennifer Yvonne Mokgoro was a beacon of

Lawyer and human rights defender, Anacleto Micha Ndong Nlang, has endured over 100 days of unlawful detention in 🇬🇶 #EquatorialGuinea .
His current whereabouts are unknown as we're hearing disturbing reports that his family and lawyers have been unable to access him since March.

📢Call for proposals: We're looking for civil society orgs. in Ghana, Mozambique, Tunisia & Venezuela to lead initiatives countering mis- & disinformation & support electoral integrity using digital tools in upcoming elections. #DDI

Apply before 29 May: web.civicus.org/DDIcall

#inspireinclusion
Le féminisme et l'inclusion signifient l'intersectionnalité: l'inclusion de toutes les femmes dans les luttes pour le changement et l'action commune pour toutes, quelles que soient leurs spécificités'
#feminismeintersectionnel
#sororité
#WHRD
African Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders

Long have we decried the lack of proper documentation of the journeys of structurally excluded people like women, indigenous communities and others. As AMwA embarks on her own herstory documentation, we call for writers to support. Apply on this link: bit.ly/3wkeSCH

Happy New Week! We are in Cameroon with Renee Nwoes Renée NWOES as we continue to #InspireInclusion .

'For me, inclusion means intersectionality, including all women in struggles for change and acting together for all women, whatever their specificities.'

#SafeguardWHRDs