Grateful to The Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics, and Art for a space w/ Fereshta Abbasi of Human Rights Watch & Duru Yavan of Open Society Justice Initiative to call on States to bring #Afghanistan before the World Court (ICJ) for flagrant violations of women’s & girls’ rights.

Legal theory, implications & strategy here ↓ cjlpa.org/post/an-avenue…

The first episode of Human Rights Watch podcast tells what happened in #Mariupol during and after the #Russian invasion. Maryna Slobodianiuk, Head of Investigations at TH, was one of the speakers on the #podcast .

🎧Spotify: spoti.fi/3UmP1BQ

🎧Apple Podcasts: apple.co/4bghhgA

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

1/Leaders meeting in Paris on April 15 should address how the suffering, humanitarian crisis in #Sudan has been also worsened by ongoing violations, hampering of aid by warring sides, acts may amount to war crimes. New Human Rights Watch hrw.org/news/2024/04/1…

Update: Tanele Maseko has been released after the legal response team intervened. She is required to report back to Manzini Regional Police Headquarters on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at 8:30 a.m. (SAST). African Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders remains seized with the matter.

Democracy ALERT: Tanele Maseko, Prominent Eswatini Human Rights Defender Detained and Harassed by Eswatini Authorities.

Join us in solidarity by sharing this alert with your networks: movedemocracy.org/democracy-aler…

Statement on the harassment of #TaneleMaseko , #Eswatini SouthernDefenders SADC Secretariat Katema Katema ARNOLD TSUNGA Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 PanAfricanParliament

In solidarity with Tanele Maseko

#SafeguardWHRDs
#HerRightsOurRights

Tanele Maseko Human Rights Watch Human Rights Foundation USAID Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Update: @Maseko_Tanele is now inside Manzini Regional Police Headquarters facing possible interrogation. African Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders Co-director Mary Pais Da Silva on the ground including local legal response team.

27 March 2024 Johannesburg | Mbabane

WOMEN DEFENDERS DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF TANELE MASEKO AND HER TWO MINOR CHILDREN

African Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders is calling on the authorities in #Eswatini to stop forthwith their harassment of Tanele Maseko, her two minor children, and their

#LetFreedomSing Julius Sello Malema Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 Front Line Defenders SADC Secretariat SADC - Lawyers Association Police in E'Swatini have just picked up Tanele Maseko and her 2 children ,seized her phones at the Ashok border post.They say that she is wanted by the police investigating Thulani’s killing

It was honor to speak at REDRESS discussion on reparations for victims in Ukraine. Reparations for victims shld remain a central part of recovery & Ukraine's EU accession.

Rules based order protecting victims to take precedent & be guidance for states to create practice.

Happy Anniversary African Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders ! You continue to inspire.

We welcome the new international standards for protecting protesters' human rights announced by the #UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Association and Peaceful Assembly Former UN Special Rapporteur FoAA rights.
#HRC55
#UnitedAgainstTorture
🔗 bit.ly/48MITZ5

Today, Human Rights Watch, Truth Hounds & SITU Research release new findings on Russia's devastation of Mariupol. These findings are based on extensive open-source research & interviews with hundreds of people between March 2022-Jan 2024. hrw.org/feature/russia… 1/10

The horrors escalating against #women in #Afg are indefensible. Detention, abuse & torture in Taliban custody as women are accused of violating the rule that 'only one eye can be naked.'

In their words: 'I am totally tired of this life, of being a #girl . I wish I died.' 1/ 🧵

The African Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders is attending the Africa Electoral Justice Network 3rd Annual Meeting currently happening in Victoria Falls, in Zimbabwe where Mary Pais Da Silva and #AdvPansyTlakula are presenting on a panel on the African Charter on democracy, elections and good governance as a tool

#PUBLICATION | How has int’l law and jurisprudence on reparations evolved to deliver justice to victims? What can we learn from the work of domestic courts?

Read 'Repairing from the Bench: From Finding Responsibility to Fashioning Judicial Redress' here
ictj.org/resource-libra…

Civil Society Solidarity submitted a letter to the Supreme Court requesting rejection of the Public Prosecutor's cassation latter in the Fatia-Haris case (24/1).

#FreeFatiaAndHaris