Category: Advocacy
Burundi:Open Letter Concerns about the human rights situation in Burundi/Lettre Ouverte: Préoccupations concernant la situation des droits humains au Burundi
Open Letter | Concerns about the human rights situation in Burundi
We, the undersigned, are writing to express our deep concern about the continuing deterioration of human rights in Burundi. Despite certain commitments proclaimed at the international level, the situation on the ground reveals an increasingly alarming repression and a climate of terror that stifles the voice of all Burundians.
Since President Évariste Ndayishimiye came to power in 2020, many observers had been hoping for an opening to democratic reform. However, the current reality contrasts sharply with those promises of hope. The ‘law of silence’ has become an absolute rule throughout the country. Critics of the regime are systematically muzzled, and enforced disappearances are reported every week in the capital, Bujumbura. Denunciation has become a common weapon of repression, fuelled by widespread fear among citizens.
Lettre Ouverte | Préoccupations concernant la situation des droits humains au Burundi
Nous, soussignés, nous adressons à vous pour exprimer notre profonde préoccupation concernant la dégradation continue des droits humains au Burundi. Malgré certains engagements proclamés au niveau international, la situation sur le terrain révèle une répression de plus en plus alarmante et un climat de terreur qui étouffe la voix de tous les Burundais.
Depuis l’arrivée au pouvoir du Président Évariste Ndayishimiye en 2020, de nombreux observateurs ont espéré une ouverture vers des réformes démocratiques. Cependant, la réalité actuelle contraste fortement avec ces promesses d’espoir. La « loi du silence » s’est imposée comme une règle absolue dans tout le pays. Les critiques du régime sont systématiquement muselées, et des disparitions forcées sont signalées chaque semaine dans la capitale, Bujumbura. La délation est devenue une arme courante de répression, alimentée par la peur généralisée parmi les citoyens.
Joint statement from Burundian civil society to demand Tanzania to stop the process of persecution against Burundian refugees.
The Burundian civil society organizations signatories to this Declaration are deeply concerned by the humanitarian crisis affecting Burundian refugees in Tanzania. This situation, which has persisted and worsened since the end of 2019, should be of major concern to all those committed to human rights values. Forced to flee their home country, Burundi, due to violence and instability stemming from the 2015 crisis, these refugees found refuge in Tanzania. However, far from being a safe haven, this host country has become the scene of a series of atrocities perpetrated by the police and intelligence forces of Burundi and Tanzania. Operations carried out by night have been source of forced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and torture, turning refugee camps into places of terror rather than security.
URGENT Stop to forced repatriation of Burundian refugees from Tanzania
Letter To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations (UN) Human
40 Burundian and international organizations send a letter to the Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland) to renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur and guarantee adequate financial resources for his follow-up work and documentation of the human rights situation in Burundi