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The regional overview summarizes the human rights situation and developments in the region throughout 2019. As the deadline closed in for regional political commitments to “Silencing the Guns” by 2020, intractable armed conflicts continued, and new forms of violence by non-state actors led...
Africa Internally Displaced People

77th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Agenda Item 6(xii): Activity Report of the Special Rapporteur on Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Internally Displaced Persons, and Migrants in Africa

While Kenya is the only country in the East and Horn of Africa willing to receive and recognize as refugees those who are persecuted for their sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or expression, the reality on the ground is different.