Such strong, brave women! 💪🏾💪🏾Women Human Rights Defenders need our support, NL 🇳🇱partnered with UN OHCHR, to give them tools for documenting, because if violations go unnoticed, impunity thrives. #accountability #humanrightsdefenders #GBV

🇳🇱 Netherlands Embassy & 🇺🇳UN OHCHR empower SA’s Women Human Rights Defenders with tools to document violations. Unrecorded abuses fuel impunity—supporting brave women for justice! 📷Dutch Embassy in Pretoria #HumanRights #WomenDefenders Joanne Doornewaard Netherlands in SA

🚨✉️WEBINAR INVITE: International Day in Support of Victims of Torture Join us and our partner; Amnesty International International International (Kenya), Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders (African Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders) & Kenya Human Rights Commission on: 📅DATE: Wednesday, 25 June 2025

The arrest of peaceful protestors—Norah kobusingye, Namara Claire, and Aloikin Praise Opoloje—is an illegal violation of their Constitutional right to peaceful protest, assembly and association. Uganda Police Force must immediately release them & apologize.

I celebrate my dearest sisters for their bravery! This is exactly why i loathe those who dare call this generation lazy, cowardly or whatever those words are! They know the risks and some have experienced the heavy handedness of the state, yet here they are and boldly calling

Three Sisterhoods spent last night in Wandegeya police station after enduring a brutal arrest and over seven hours of interrogation. #FreeNorahClaireAndPraise #FreeAllPoliticalPrisonersInUganda

Freedom of Peaceful Assembly is essential right to challenge injustice. We demand for freedom of Namara Claire Aloikin Praise Opoloje and Namara Claire #FreeNorahClaireAndPraise #FreeAllPoliticalPrisonersInUganda

Our sisters are still detained at Wandegeya police station three days after their arrest. #FreeOurSisters #FreeNorahClaireAndPraise

“This decision underscores our unwavering commitment to ensuring safety, comfort..” Tanzania is no longer safe for Africans. The EALS wants to forestall a repeat of what happened to The People’s Watchman and I (and Tanzanian nationals on a daily) and has been compelled to change the

Bail granted.

Remember Edward Awebwa, the then 24-year-old arrested, and later convicted for “abusing” Museveni, his wife, & son? We’ve made contact with him at Olia Farm Prison in Adjumani where he is serving his six-year sentence. Sadly, almost a year in jail, this was the very first time

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From earlier today. After Aloikin Praise Opoloje Norah kobusingye and Namara Claire had been granted bail.

Tomorrow is the day. We’re standing up for Eron and demanding the return of his passport.#ReleaseEronsPassport

The Girls Table stands in solidarity with Faith Zaba, a trailblazing Zimbabwean editor, investigative journalist, and outspoken women’s rights advocate, who was unjustly arrested and detained on July 1, 2025. Ms. Zaba faces charges of “undermining the authority” of the president.

The police have come to our home in Courage Base and are taking my husband, talking of terrorism and arson! They’ve taken his gadgets and said they are taking him to DCI Hq. I can’t breath😭

I’m scared for this young man 😦 the Tanzanian government has no regard for life. I am very sure ours wouldn’t have been spared if it wasn’t for all your voices. Please let’s all raise our voices for Mwabili Magodi. He has been missing since Wednesday from Dar es Salaam where

#FreeMwabiliMwagodi

I was poisoned. There's no easy or elegant way to say this. It's a harsh and deeply shameful truth. I was deliberately exposed to a dangerous combination of heavy metals. I nearly lost my life. Today, I live with physical pain and limitations. Journalism is not a crime; it's my