Defending the defenders
Defending the defenders
The Human Rights Defenders Network-Sierra Leone and Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the 2023 Electoral Process. “The Network is grateful to ECSL for the confidence entrusted in us to be partners towards promoting Elections Integrity and a Free, Fair and Credible 2023 Elections” the Executive Secretary Alphonsus B. M Gbanie.
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The rule of law affirms that the people have a right to know what their government does and how state institutions relate with each other. Peaceful assembly and association in society has a definitive watchdog quality, which itself requires that human rights defenders (professional and non-professional human rights workers, volunteers, journalist, lawyers etc.) enjoy free space for association, assembly and access to information, especially public information, to advocate and report accurately and fairly. HRDNSL PRESS STATEMENT ON PROPOSED DEMONSTRATION(1).docx (1)
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As surveillance and censorship increase, the insecurity of digitally stored and/or digitally transmitted information is a major problem for HRDs in many countries. Front Line Defenders created its Digital Protection Programme in 2004 to meet the needs of HRDs facing such threats. Mobile phones, computers and the Internet are the main means by which human rights defenders (HRDs) communicate and coordinate their work as well as collect and store their research and findings, including sensitive data. Unfortunately, they are also the most common means by which governments and corporations restrict, manipulate and monitor the activity of human rights defenders. https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/programme/digital-protection
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The Human Rights Defenders Network-SL recognizes the duty of the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) in preserving law and order. HRDN-SL believes that the police in the exercise of their public duty must only do so in conformity with best practice and within the ambit of national and international laws. HRDN-SL CONDEMNS DELIBERATE AND CALCULATED ACT OF LAWLESSNESS AND INDISCIPLINE BY THE SIERRA LEONE POLICE
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The Sierra Leone Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has held a one day Pre-Validation Workshop to review the EITI Validation templates on the Transparency of Stakeholders Engagement on the Outcomes and Impact ahead of the commencement of Sierra Leone’s valuation scheduled to start on the 1 April 2022. The Human Right Defenders Network Sierra Leone as a member of the MSG was in attendance during the pre-validation exercise. And as a network we would like to call on all the membership of the network to participate and fully disseminate the EITI activity in the country.
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Betty Alimamy Sesay (Mrs) is an advocate and an activist and she also is the Acting Director, Women’s Action for Human Dignity (WAHD) Member Human Rights Defenders Network Sierra Leone. She has been involved in the work of Human Rights for over 20 years now. Sesay and many other women are just some few case of that show the power of a determine woman and we would to celebrate her on this peculiar day which is the International Women’s Days 2022. As the theme for this year rightly states “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow” we would like to…
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The Executive Secretary of the Human Right Defenders Network Sierra Leone has attended a two-day familiarization retreat organized by The Sierra Leone Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in Bo District, Southern Province. The purpose of the retreat was to familiarize MSGs with the new validation model and templates, establish a dedicated SLEITI MSG sub-committee on validation and update progress made in addressing validation corrective action. To better support relevant, sustainable and impactful EITI implementation, the EITI Board has introduced a new validation model. The new approach maintains the rigor of the validation process while also accommodating the diverse challenges and priorities…
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The Human Rights Defenders Network Sierra Leone has on Thursday August 12, 2021 joined the Movement Against Inequality in a training workshop organized for Civil Society Organization on Transfer Pricing. The Workshops theme was “Building On Government Action to Reduce Inequality.” The overview of the workshop is to ensure that Civil Society Organization especially the Movement Against Inequality in Sierra Leone Women and Youth Leaders are empowered to Champion Fiscal Justice in the country using the Transfer Pricing Regulation. The training comes after engagement with the National Revenue Organization and the Ministry of Finance(MoF) along with OXFAM International identified the…
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The Minister of Planning and Economic Development, Dr. Francis KaiKai has held a consultative meeting with Members of the NGO and INGO Community at the Miatta Conference Hall in Freetown on Tuesday 17 September 2019. Speaking at the ceremony on behalf of the NGO’s was Madam Shellac Sunny-Davies, President of Sierra Leone Association Non-Governmental Organization (SLANGO). Madam Shellac speaking on behalf of the NGO Family in Sierra Leone said that SLANGO had benefitted from the special working relationship with the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development and she said she hoped the relationship would continue with more vigor and improved…
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