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• Gambia

  Gambia’s genocide case against Myanmar shows that smaller countries can also help balance the scales of international justice

  27 March 2020, by HUNT Louise

  After years of intense persecution, the Rohingya minority population in Myanmar finally had their calls for help answered in a landmark judgment earlier this year by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ordered the government to take immediate measures to prevent further acts of (...)

• Gambia

  How to topple a dictator: the rebel plot that freed the Gambia

  22 May 2018, by DANIELSEN Mikkel, RÓIN Philip

  After 22 years, Yahya Jammeh seemed unassailable. His brutal and reckless rule was finally ended by a small but courageous resistance
  On Saturday 13 August 2016, six bodyguards from the protection detail of the Gambia’s president, Yahya Jammeh, squeezed into a rental car and drove to the (...)

• Gambia

  Gambia: update on trial of two women human rights defenders

  29 November 2010, by Collective / Multiple signers

  UPDATE: Gambia: Trial of WHRDs Dr. Isatou Touray & Amie Bojang-Sissoho adjourned to 1 December http://www.wluml.org/node/6810
  Update on: Gambia: Isatou Touray and Amie Bojang-Sissoho freed on bail
  Online action: Gambia: Call for the fair trial of Dr. Isatou Touray and Ms. Amie (...)

• Gambia

  Gambia: calls for withdrawal of the case

  21 October 2010, by Coalition for Human Rights in the Gambia

  URGENT: The Gambia: Women’s Rights Defenders Dr. Isatou Touray and Amie Bojang-Sissoho released on bail with outrageous bail conditions: A Call for the withdrawal of the case.
  Coalition for Human Rights in the Gambia
  21 october 2010
  After spending ten days in detention the two prominent (...)

• Gambia

  Statement by the International Coalition of Women’s Human Right’s Defenders

  18 October 2010, by WHRDIC

  The Women Human Rights Defenders’ International Coalition (WHRD IC) is shocked to learn of the arrests of our colleagues Dr. Isatou Touray and Ms. Amie Bojang-Sissoho on Monday, October 11, 2010 in the Gambia. According to reports received, they had been threatened and harassed prior to their (...)

• Gambia

  Gambia: major women’s rights organisations protests against detention of whrd

  15 October 2010, by Baobab for Women’s Human Rights

  URGENT ALERT WITH RESPECT TO THE ARREST OF WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER IN THE GAMBIA
  Date: October 15, 2010
  BAOBAB for Women’s human Rights calls for the immediate unconditional release on bail of Dr. Isatou Touray and Ms. Amie Bojang-Sissoho, who were both alleged to be involved in fund (...)

• Gambia

  Gambia: Women’s rights defenders arrested and detained without charge

  14 October 2010, by WLUML

  WLUML Statement on the Arrest of Women’s Human Rights Defenders in the Gambia, Dr. Isatou Touray and Ms. Amie Bojang-Sissoho
  The WLUML network is deeply concerned to learn of the arrests of our colleagues Dr. Isatou Touray and Ms. Amie Bojang-Sissoho on Monday, October 11, 2010 by an officer of (...)

• Gambia

  Leading Gambian rights, gender defender denounces government

  20 septembre 2010, par Collective / Multiple signers

  Note : Thanks to international pressure, our friends Isatou Touray and Amie have been liberated this morning, on bail. They will face trial as planned. Please keep up the pressure on the Gambian authorities, so that they have a fair trial.
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  Dakar - Pana 20/10/2010
  Dakar, Senegal - (...)