African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights meets in the Gambia in 2022. (Photo courtesy of the ACHPR)
A decade of failure at the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights
African values: Manifesto calls for ‘decolonized’ advocacy against LGBTphobia
The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights headquarters in Banjul, The Gambia. (Photo courtesy ACHPR)
African Human Rights Commission affirms intersex people’s rights
African commission tries to shun talk of LGBTI rights, but doesn’t succeed
Women Leaders: LBQ activists gather to demand change in Cameroon
Mahamadou Kassogué, Malian justice minister. (Photo courtesy of Maliweb.net)
Justice minister in Mali plans to make homosexuality a crime
Advocates boycott African human rights conference in Egypt
Logo of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. (Click on the image to donate to Justice 4 Eric Lembembe)
African human rights body must set a better example
The Coalition of African Lesbians has been barred from meetings of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights. (Photo courtesy of CAL)
African Union seeks to shackle human rights watchdog
In a world where dozens of countries (shown in red) have anti-LGBT laws, about 400 million LGBTQI people are in legal jeopardy.
‘400 million LGBT people in jeopardy worldwide’
Logo of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. (Click on the image to donate to Justice 4 Eric Lembembe)
African Commission: Boosting human rights helps fight HIV
11 glimmers of hope for LGBT rights in 2017
Sibongile Ndashe, executive director of ISLA. (Photo courtesy of Flickr)
Tanzania cries 'homosexuality' to block health-care lawsuit
Tanzania, stop threatening backers of pregnant girls, LGBT people
Reine Alapini Gansou at African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Progress toward defending sexual minorities in Africa
Nigeria’s anti-gay law boosts anti-LGBT extortion, violence