Advocacy & Campaigns

PRESS STATEMENT

Upinde is a Kiswahili word for rainbow. The change of award name represents diversity, sovereignty and inclusion

The Awards Gala night will be in Nairobi on December 13, 2013 starting 7pm

The Africa Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) is considering the adoption of a regional legal framework on Plant variety protection that will criminalise farmers' rights and undermine seed systems in the ARIPO region.

In the Mt Elgon region there has been an upsurge in school dropping-out over the last couple of years.

Dominican authorities have started to implement the controversial ruling 0168-13 issued on 23 September by the Dominican Constitutional Court (Tribunal Constitucional) backdated to 1929, which in practice deprives people of foreign descent of their Dominican nationality, with the consequence of m

To: Representatives of African States to the United Nations in New York
Ministries of Foreign Affairs of African States

18th November 2013

A long-delayed referendum on the independence of Saharawi from Morocco was the subject of an international conference in Abuja, Nigeria during late October 2013. The conference was sponsored by the Nigerian Labor Congress and other mass organizations.

The Information and Communications Amendment Bill of 2013 was passed by parliament on October 31, 2013, but has not yet been signed by the president. Another problematic draft law, the Media Council Bill, is due to be debated in parliament in the coming weeks.

Seventeen year old Manuel Chivonde Nito Alves (better known as Nito Alves) is a prisoner of conscience who was arrested for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression.

The campaign launch kicked-off with a signing of the "Robben Island Declaration" in support of the "Free Marwan Barghouti and All Palestinian Political Prisoners" campaign (click here to read).