The African Democracy Forum (ADF) is a regional network launched in Abuja, Nigeria in October 2000. It comprises civil society organisations, media institutions, community based organisations, academic institutions and donor entities that work on democracy, democratic research, protection of human rights, upholding the rule of law and promoting good governance through the twin principles of…
Voices for Change (V4C) is a UK Aid-funded, four-year program designed to help transform social attitudes towards girls and women in Nigeria by working on specific individual, social and institutional changes. V4C does this by operating at a federal level and in four States.
In Spanish: http://blog-redlad.blogspot.com.co/2017/10/alerta-la-paz-en-colombia-debe-proteger.html With the purpose of giving compliance to the fourth chapter of the Final Agreement for the termination of the conflict and the construction of a stable and lasting peace, the peasants, mostly Afro and indigenous of Tumaco, a town in the department of Nariño, to the south of Colombia, held a peaceful…
Detained Congolese activist Timothée Mbuya, president of the human rights organization Justicia, has now spent over two months behind bars for participating in a peaceful protest on July 31, 2017. Mbuya was arrested alongside four other activists in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo. While Mbuya’s trial is still pending, the other four activists lost their…