Client: African Union/ EC
Country: Ethiopia and Africa
Year: 2009-2010
The EU and the African Union (AU) held their second Human Rights Dialogue in Addis Ababa on 27th October 2008. Following from this meeting, the 1st African and European Union Civil Society Human Rights Seminar was held in Brussels in April 2009. This seminar highlighted a worrying trend of adopting increasingly restrictive legal and administrative frameworks and practices on the African continent in recent years.
Given the threats of such practices to the ability of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to perform their roles effectively, the AU and EU would “propose to the civil society to prepare a mapping of the ongoing and planned reviews of legislation on civil society organisations”. The seminar also specifically stressed the importance of holding similar seminars on a regular basis, and for this reason a second African and European Union Civil Society Seminar was organised in October 2010 in Addis Ababa.
Services provided
Triple Line has undertaken a study based on the mapping referred to above that forms the second component of the Assignment. The study was on legislative and administrative frameworks having an impact on freedom of association, and more particularly on the capacity for human rights civil society organisations to freely conduct their activities, in Europe and in Africa.
Achievements
Triple Line completed the mapping and followed this up by moderating the Civil Society Seminar on Human Rights in Addis Ababa.