2023-07-11 22:02:59
Dakar, Jul 11 (APS) – Amnesty International said in a report released on Tuesday, on the occasion of Africa Anti-Corruption Day, that human rights defenders fighting once morest this scourge in 19 West African countries West and Center would run multiple risks, sometimes leading to death.
”The result is edifying: the human rights defenders who [dans ces 19 pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre] fight corruption risk arrests, harassment, detention, heavy fines. Some even risk death,” said Liliane Mouan, corruption and human rights adviser at Amnesty International in Dakar, in an interview with RFI.
According to her, “corruption persists with the same intensity in Africa and thrives in a climate of draconian restrictions on human rights and civic space, which limits the ability of human rights defenders to hold powerful actors to account in the world. subject of corruption”.
This contrasts with “the fact that 48 of the 55 African Union (AU) member states have ratified the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption”, she added.
”Human rights defenders trying to fight corruption face a lack of laws to protect them, flawed judicial institutions and a culture of impunity that leaves dishonest practices and abuses of power unpunished. ‘, also worried the adviser to Amnesty International in Dakar.
Of the 19 countries studied, only four have legislated in favor of the protection of human rights defenders and whistleblowers.
”Only Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Niger have passed laws on the protection of human rights defenders, and only Ghana has a law specifically aimed at protecting whistleblowers” , she pointed out.
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