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Lala ngoxolo Maseko Ngcamane Khubonye waNdlovu. Our human rights defender, Our noble & gentle giant, Our hero, Our voice of reason - firmly and forever planted in our hearts. 🌱✊🏾
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LEADERS NOT BRIDES 💪🏽
Join the movement to empower girls and end child marriages! 🌎
Say NO to child marriages 💔
Say YES to education 📚
Say YES to dignity 🌟
#EndChildMarriages #EndObstetricFistula #RestoreDignity – at Zimbabwe
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On 14 July I’ll launch a report I commissioned into the killings of HRDs Fikile Ntshangase, Thulani Maseko, Jude Fernandez, Quinto Inuma Alvarado & Maria Bernadete Pacifico.
🕚 11am BST
📍London & online: teams.microsoft.com/meet/354…
✅ Registration required: forms.gle/QTi4iGdZU4KQP5Yy6
ALT Flyer for a report launch on 14 July 2026 titled “Chasing Shadows: investigating the killings of human rights defenders Fikile Ntshangase (South Africa), Thulani Maseko (Eswatini), Jude Fernandez (Philippines), Quinto Inuma Alvarado (Peru) & Maria Bernadete Pacifico (Brazil).” The report was commissioned by former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders Mary Lawlor. The event takes place at 11am British Standard Time in Room LG.08, University of Westminster, Little Titchfield Street Campus, London W1W 7BY. Online participation is available at https://msteams.link/VMV5. Registration is necessary at forms.gle/QTi4iGdZU4KQP5Yy6. Speakers listed are Mary Lawlor, former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of HRDs; Claire Lauterbach, investigative journalist & author of the report; Mary Pais, human rights lawyer from Eswatini; Kirsten Youens, human rights lawyer from South Africa; & Jerome Adonis, Chairperson of KMU, largest trade union in the Philippines.
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📢 Call for Applications!!!
Women and girls across Eastern & Southern Africa are driving transformative action to end harmful practices and GBV and their voices must shape regional advocacy and policy spaces.
Apply to be part of the development of a policy brief advancing collective action against child marriage, FGM, and GBV.
🔗 bit.ly/3OTOs41
#SRHRDialogues
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Nokuthula Mabaso was one of three @abahlalibM leaders from the eKhenana commune killed in the space of just six months in 2022. Four years later, there has been no justice for her and many other human rights defenders who have been silenced.
✊ Join the call for legislation that protects human rights defenders:
campaigns.amnesty.org.za/pag…
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The military continues to detain the wife of Najja Nasif, the personal assistant to @HEBobiwine, holding her beyond 48-hour limit.
Recently, women have increasingly become targets of abduction in situations where their husbands are the primary targets. This trend is worrying
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📢Tomorrow on the sidelines of #CSW70, we’re partnering with @CarterCenter to host a discussion on Women, Peace and Security in Sudan, centering the perspectives and experiences of Sudanese women.
10.30 am USA | 3.30 pm Chad | 4.30 pm Sudan | 5.30 Kenya
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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🇿🇼 Zimbabwe:
33% women in Parliament
23% women ministers
44% women judges
5% women vice chancellors
Yet 52% of the population are women..
And we are here trying to amend the Constitution to scrap the Gender Commission.
#NoToCA3
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It went well. We won we won 💃🏻 💃🏻 the constitutional court agreed with us that the computer misuse amendment act is unconstitutional and therefore null and void.
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Today we celebrate not just your life, but your courage, your voice, and your unwavering commitment to freedom and justice.
Happy birthday @NamaraClaire14 🎂
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Gentle reminder 📌
Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right, not a crime! ✊🗣️
Wishing you a wonderful week ahead!
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I stand with fellow regional leaders to decry violations that include brutal assaults, the humiliation of women political actors, and the use of sexual violence as a tool of political intimidation.
What is happening in Uganda is not an internal matter; it is a regional and continental emergency that demands urgent action.
For every suppressed voice, more emerge. These acts are atrocious and reprehensible, but they will not prevail.
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Hearing disturbing news from #Bangladesh on the reported arbitrary dismissal of WHRD & university professor Layeqa Bashir, which appears to be linked to her human rights work & role in advancing accountability. Her right to due process must be guaranteed. @BDPM_Geneva
ALT The flag of Bangladesh flying from a pole against a blue sky background
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Very disturbing that a number of human rights organisations, including the National Coalition for Human Rights Defenders @NCHRD_UG, Chapter Four Uganda @chapterfourug, Alliance for Election Finance Monitoring @AcfimAfrica, Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda @HRNJUganda & the National NGO Forum @ngoforum have all been ordered by the NGO Bureau @NGObureau to suspend their activities. This is an extremely worrying development ahead of Thursday’s elections; the suspension must be lifted immediately. @geneva_uganda @UgandaMFA
ALT Screenshot of an official letter from Uganda’s National Bureau for NGOs dated 9 January 2026, titled “Notice of Suspension of the NGO Permit for National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders in Uganda.” The letter states that the organisation’s permit is suspended and orders it to cease all operations with immediate effect, citing alleged national security concerns.
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Human rights defender Dr @SarahBireete is currently in the holding cells at Buganda road court after spending over 48hrs in police detention at Nateete police station.
#FreeSarahBireete
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🌷We are delighted to announce Faith Zaba as the 2025 Human Rights Tulip Winner in Zimbabwe. 🇿🇼
@Faye_Zaba is a trailblazing journalist & the first female editor of @Zimindependent.
Her investigative journalism, pioneering leadership & steadfast support for women have strengthened press freedom in Zimbabwe & empowered women, especially in the media.👩💻
She has done it all with courage and resilience in the face of real risk. Congratulations Faith!🎉
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✊✨On Human Rights Day, we honour and stand with all those defending rights in the face of repression — human rights defenders who continue to shine as rays of light and catalysts for positive change.
#RepressionIsNotIndependence ✊🏾
Standing in solidarity with the people of #Tanzania and all human rights defenders
@MariaSTsehai @rachaelmwiks @AAgather @remyngol @Telegraph @AlJazeera @fidh_en @ProtectHRD_EU @TitoMagoti @AfricaDefenders
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𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄!
Today, as #Tanzania marks its Independence Day and the world commemorates International Human Rights Defenders Day, we stand alongside women human rights defenders and communities who are mourning their dead, searching for the disappeared, and refusing to be silenced.
The African Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders (@whrdinitiative), together with WHRDs, social movements, and civil society across Africa, has issued this statement:
“Repression Is Not Independence: Women Defenders Speak Out on Tanzania.”
We name the violence.
We name the gendered targeting of women defenders.
We name the legal architecture that shields power from accountability.
And we set out clear WHRD-centred demands for safety, justice, dignity, and structural change.
📄 Read & share the full statement (attached).
Because independence cannot be celebrated while streets run with blood and women defenders are punished for imagining a different future.
#WomenHumanRightsDefenders #WHRDs #CivicSpace #HumanRights #16DaysOfActivism #WeAreWHRDs #SafeguardWHRDs
@UN_HRC @MaryLawlorhrds @Ginitastar @achpr_cadhp @africanngos @CIVICUSMonitor @omctorg @FrontLineHRD @WHRDSomalia @AfricanWHRD @WHRDhub @X @TheChanzo @CPJAfrica @MariaSTsehai @AgoraCFR @ACTSA_UK @ohchr_sa @OHCHR_EARO @SADC_News @
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𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄!
Today, as #Tanzania marks its Independence Day and the world commemorates International Human Rights Defenders Day, we stand alongside women human rights defenders and communities who are mourning their dead, searching for the disappeared, and refusing to be silenced.
The African Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders (@whrdinitiative), together with WHRDs, social movements, and civil society across Africa, has issued this statement:
“Repression Is Not Independence: Women Defenders Speak Out on Tanzania.”
We name the violence.
We name the gendered targeting of women defenders.
We name the legal architecture that shields power from accountability.
And we set out clear WHRD-centred demands for safety, justice, dignity, and structural change.
📄 Read & share the full statement (attached).
Because independence cannot be celebrated while streets run with blood and women defenders are punished for imagining a different future.
#WomenHumanRightsDefenders #WHRDs #CivicSpace #HumanRights #16DaysOfActivism #WeAreWHRDs #SafeguardWHRDs
@UN_HRC @MaryLawlorhrds @Ginitastar @achpr_cadhp @africanngos @CIVICUSMonitor @omctorg @FrontLineHRD @WHRDSomalia @AfricanWHRD @WHRDhub @X @TheChanzo @CPJAfrica @MariaSTsehai @AgoraCFR @ACTSA_UK @ohchr_sa @OHCHR_EARO @SADC_News @