Action for Peace and Development (APD) strives to promote a peaceful, democratic and prosperous society in Burundi by engaging the youth and women as active participants in their political and civil society decision-making instances. In 2015, an active founder-member of Action for Peace and development participated in “The Next Generation for Democracy Movements in Africa”…
Action for Peace and Development (APD) strives to promote a peaceful, democratic and prosperous society in Burundi by engaging the youth and women as active participants in their political and civil society decision-making instances. In 2015, an active founder-member of Action for Peace and development participated in “The Next Generation for Democracy Movements in Africa”…
On May 9, 2017, Hassan Shire, the Executive Director of the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (DefendDefenders), addressed the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and encouraged them to play a stronger role in protecting human rights on the continent. Shire drew attention to a number of recent human rights…
On January 3, the Burundi Ministry of Interior accused ITEKA League (ITEKA), a Burundi-based civil society organization, of harming the country’s reputation, and removed ITEKA from the list of NGOs allowed to work in Burundi. This past December also marked one year since Marie Claudette Kwizera, the treasurer of ITEKA, went missing; her disappearance prompted the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)…