Aug 15, 2017 | News
Partners of Initiative for Equality (IfE) in the African Great Lakes region (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and Rwanda) have released a series of Field Reports documenting human rights abuses, land grabs, extrajudicial detentions, torture and killings of...
Mar 29, 2017 | News
IfE partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi and Rwanda are taking steps to protect the rights of Indigenous people in the region, and to end the violence that threatens their survival. The abuse of human rights, lack of enforced legal protections,...
Nov 7, 2016 | News
A Field Hearings report on the current condition of Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone finds that swift interventions are required to address the health and socioeconomic needs of survivors. The Field Hearings were conducted by Mr. Olagai Simon, Co-founder of Africa...
Sep 22, 2016 | News
IfE, a global network, has endorsed the statement of demands and priorities for change developed by the US-based Movement for Black Lives. The statement was developed collectively by a group of 27 organizations (the “United Front”) that participate in the Black Lives...
Jun 8, 2016 | News
IfE’s Deborah S. Rogers brought messages from Field Hearings communities around the world to the UN on 06 June 2016. The central message she delivered was that “the key to working effectively on behalf of poor, socially excluded and marginalized communities is to let...
Feb 7, 2016 | News
IfE’s partner organizations in Burundi, DR Congo and Uganda are building a citizens’ network to monitor threats to peace and human rights in the troubled African Great Lakes Region. Decades of poor governance, economic exploitation, ethnic strife and regional conflict...
