Africa At The Centre Of Human Rights In The 21st Century, Which Way?

The group has agreed to direct itself primarily towards human rights abuses in Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, pending other issues arising from any part of Africa.

Below are some websites relevant to Human Rights in Africa:

Sierra Leone Special Tribunal - www.sc-sl.org
African Commission on Human and People's Rights - www.achpr.org
African Commission On Human And Peoples' Rights charters - www1.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/comision.html
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda  - http://www.ictr.org/

For further details email Olisa-Emeka Chikwendu This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , Africa Sub-Group Coordinator.

Sierra Leone

Sabrina Mahtani has been a member of SIHRG since 2006 and is a member of the Africa Working Group. She worked at the Special Court for Sierra Leone for a year and is co-founder of a group, AdvocAid, which supports women in Pademba Road Prison by carrying out regular monitoring activities, facilitating access to legal representation and organising legal education workshops in the prison. Read the text of her organisation's most recent press release here: