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Forum On The Participation Of NGOS In The 67th Ordinary Session Of The ACHPR Draft Agenda

Time Activity
9:30-10:00 Opening Session

Thematic focus of Speakers: “Post COVID19: Rebuilding a just and peaceful society in Africa
based on human rights and good governance”
Moderator: Mrs. Hannah Forster – Executive Director, ACDHRS (tribute to late Abdoul Gadiry
Diallo, former NGOs Forum Steering Committee Member who passed away on 27th Oct. 2020)

  • Ms. Maximillienne Ngo Mbe – NGOs Forum Steering Committee
  • Statement: ACDHRS Governing Council
  • Hon. Commissioner Solomon Ayele Dersso – Chairperson, ACHPR (focus on ACHPR’s actions towards realizing the theme)
  • H. E. Minata Samate Cessouma – Political Affairs Commissioner, African Union Commission (focus on AU’s action towards realizing the theme)
  • Opening Statement – Mr. Mamadou Saliou Sow – Secretariat for Human Rights and Good Governance, Ministry of Justice, Senegal (focus on Senegal’s strategies to fulfil the theme)
    10:00-11:30 SESSION 1: Responses to COVID-19 as pertaining to human and peoples’ rights: lessons learned and recommendations
    Moderator: Mr. Gilbert Sebihogo, Executive Secretary – Network of National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI)
    Panellists:
    Global trends: Irene Petras – International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL- keeping African civic space healthy post COVID19)
    Central Africa – Nicoline Wazeh – CAWOPEM – (Cameroon atrocities)
    East Africa– (Corruption related to COVID19 support funds)
    2
    Discussion, Questions and Answers
    North Africa – Amina Tadjer – Algerian Human Rights Network (Freedom of Association and
    Assembly)
    West Africa – Mathias Hounkpe – Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA -Elections)
    Southern Africa– Lloyd Kuveya – Amnesty International (persecution by the Judiciary)
    Discussion /Questions and Answers
    11:30-11:45 Health break
    11:45- 13:00 Session 2: Economic, social and cultural rights affected by the corruption linked to COVID-19 financial support to Africa
    Moderator: Dr. Japhet Biegon, Amnesty International
    Panellists
  • Mourad Errahib – National Human Rights Council of Morocco
  • Francis Ben Kaifala – Anti-Corruption Commission of Sierra Leone / OFNAC – Senegal (tbc)
  • Gregory Chifire – Southern Africa Network Against Corruption
  • Diana Gichengo – Kenyan Human Rights Commission
  • IPAS Africa Alliance
    Discussion / Questions and Answers
    Closing / End of Day 1
    Day 2: Tuesday, 10th November 2020 / Time: 9:30am–13:00pm (GMT) /12:30pm–16:00pm (EAT)
    9:30-9:45 Presentation of the programme of the day
    Moderator: Adama Cooper-Jah / Adelaide Etong Kame
    9:45-11:45 Session 3: Special Interest Groups
    Focus: “Post COVID19: Rebuilding a just and peaceful society in Africa based on human rights Principles and good governance”
  1. Enforcement of COVID19 measures (their impact on prison conditions, excessive use of force, torture, inhuman, arbitrary arrest and detention/prisons and conditions of detention, policing post-COVID) – Prince Akpah – AfricansRising
  2. Peace and Security in Africa (Silencing the Guns in Africa and atrocities in Africa) – Achieng Maureen Akena – International Refugee Rights Initiative
  3. Freedom of association, expression and civic space in Africa (strengthening of the protection post-COVID) – Joseph Bikanda – East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project
  4. Economic and Social rights (Agenda 2063, SDG) – Seynabou Benga, Human Dignity
  5. Women, vulnerable and most at-risk groups (Gender-based violence and conflicts in the context of COVID19) – Chantal Mutamuriza –Light for All
    11:45-12:00 Health Break
    12:00-13:00 Session 3 (continuation): Report back to plenary and adoption of Recommendations
    Moderator: Naji Moulay Lahsen, CIDH
    Closing and end of day 2

Day 3: Wednesday 11th November 2020 / Time: 9:30am–13:00pm (GMT) / 12:30pm–16:00pm (EAT)
9:30-9:45 Presentation of the programme of the day
Moderator: Maximillienne Ngo Mbe – REDHAC
9:45-11:00 Session 4: Adoption of Resolutions
Moderator: Joseph Bikanda – PanAfrica Human Rights Defenders Network

  • Review and adoption of resolutions received from civil society
    11:00-11:15 Health Break
    11:15-12:15 Session 5: Panel Discussion on the impact of adopted resolutions
    Moderator: Hannah Forster, ACDHRS
    Panellist:
  • Commissioner Remy Ngoy Lumbu (ACHPR Country Rapporteur on Cameroon)
  • Dr. Japhet Biegon, Amnesty International
  • Gilbert Sebihogo – NANHRI
    Selected Resolutions adopted at the 66th Ordinary Session of the ACHPR
  • Resolution on the Deterioration of the Human Rights Situation in Cameroon during
    Covid19
  • Resolution on the Human Rights Situation in the Republic of Zimbabwe
  • Resolution on Human and Peoples’ Rights as central pillar of successful response to
    COVID19 and recovery from its socio-political impacts
    12.15– 13.00 Moderator: Hannah Forster / Corlett Letlojane
    Closing ceremony speakers
  • Remarks: Melanie Kombate – NGOs Forum Steering Committee
  • Statement: Hon. Commissioner Solomon Dersso – Chairperson, ACHPR
  • Closing Statement: Mr. Emmanuel D. Joof, Chairperson, Gambia National Human
    Rights Commission

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