New Leadership for African Rights Group Presents Opportunity

Expand A banner at the opening of the 65th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) in Banjul, Gambia, which reads ‘our collective responsibility’ in the four working languages of the ACHPR. © 2019 Private New leadership took the helm of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) this week at a crucial time for human rights across the continent. On October 21, on the 33rd anniversary of the ratification of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the ACHPR elected Commissioner Solomon Ayele Dersso, an Ethiopian national, as the…

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