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)
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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”
- 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
- Peace and Security in Africa (Silencing the Guns in Africa and atrocities in Africa) – Achieng Maureen Akena – International Refugee Rights Initiative
- 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
- Economic and Social rights (Agenda 2063, SDG) – Seynabou Benga, Human Dignity
- 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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