By Edrine Wanyama |

The Digital Rights Alliance Africa (DRAA) a loose coalition co-founded by the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) and the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) and hosted by CIPESA has made a submission to the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights. The submission provides analyses the Declaration on the Promotion of the Role of Human and Peoples’ Rights Defenders and their Protection in Africa (Declaration). It further provides comments to foster improvement of its provisions.

The Afro-centric Declaration aimed at developing an inclusive African normative framework on the issue of the promotion and protection of human rights defenders and peoples. The Declaration once passed will potentially integrate the 1998 United Nations Declaration and the 2014 Marrakesh Declaration by involving all relevant actors working to defend human and peoples’ rights.

The submission highlights the key issues with emphasis on the gaps in the Declaration and makes proposals for reform if it is to address the key emerging issues and problems affecting HRDs on the continent.

Please read the full submission here.