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Hassan Shire Sheikh | |
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U.S. State Department in 2011 |
Hassan Shire Sheikh is a Somali-Canadian pan-African human rights activist. He is the Executive Director of the East and Horn of Africa human rights activists Project also known as DefendDefenders).[1][2][3][4] He is also the chairperson of the Pan-African Human Rights Activists Network (PAHRD-Net) which is also known as AfricanDefenders.[5][6][7][8] AfricanDefenders is an umbrella organization created to coordinate and strengthen sub-regional efforts to overcome many of the challenges and gaps identified in protection mechanisms.[9][10][11]
Background and Education
Hassan Shire was born in Mogadishu Somalia and moved to Canada after facing threats from extremist organizations in Somalia.[7][5]He holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science and government from Delhi University and a Master of Arts in Economics from Jamia Millia Islamia University New Delhi.[12]
Personal Life and Career
While in Somalia, Shire co-founded the Dr. Ismail Jumale Human Rights Centre in 1996 served as it's director till 2001.[13][14] He chaired the Peace and Human Rights Network Mogadishu, Somalia during the same period.[3][7][9][15]He collaborated with Amnesty International Canada and the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University to establish the African Human Rights Activists Project while seeking asylum in Canada.[16][9]
In 2005, Shire returned to Africa and founded DefendDefenders, based in Uganda, to support human rights activists across the East and Horn of Africa.[5][17] He also played a pivotal role in forming coalitions of human rights advocates in multiple African countries like Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, and Somalia/Somaliland in the east and the Horn of Africa.[7][9][10]
He currently serves as vice chair of the Board of Directors of the Centre for Civil and Political Rights in
Hassan Shire is the Executive Director of the East and Horn of Africa human rights activists Project Kampala, Uganda (alias DefendDefenders)[18][19][20] and also the chairperson of the Pan-African human rights activists Network (EHAHRDN) which is also known as AfricanDefenders.[6][16][8][21] Under his direction, DefendDefenders supports human rights activists with advocacy, capacity building, awareness raising, emergency protection, well-being support, and technology assistance.[2][22][23]
Hassan is a member of the Global Civil Society Movement.[5] [10] He is a member of the World Movement for Democracy Steering Committee.[19]
Awards and recognitions
He has received several awards for his work, including the Richard C. Holbrooke Leadership Award from
and the Leadership Award of the Pan African Human Rights Defenders Network (2015).References
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- ^ a b "EAC leaders urged to fast-track integration". 93.3 KFM. 2022-10-12. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ a b c "Hassan Shire (Uganda)". World Movement for Democracy. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
- ^ a b "Staff - DefendDefenders". 2021-11-08. Retrieved 2023-01-28.
- ^ a b c d "Hassan Shire Sheikh: Somali-Canadian pan-African human rights defender". ISHR. 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
- ^ a b "Executions Increase in Somalia - Somalia | ReliefWeb". reliefweb.int. 16 May 2017. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
- ^ a b c d e "Hassan Shire Keynote Address to Somali Diaspora - DefendDefenders". 2011-07-02. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ a b "AFRICAN DEFENDERS | Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network". Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ a b c d e "AFRICAN DEFENDERS | About". Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ a b c "Centre for Civil and Political Rights | Human Rights". ccprcentre.org. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ "SODEN Chairman has raised the disability rights in Africa during the 5th focal point of Human rights Defenders in East and Horn of Africa in Kampala. | Somali Disability Empowerment Network - SODEN". Retrieved 2023-02-28.
- ^ "Former IHRDA Board Members – IHRDA". Retrieved 2023-02-28.
- ^ "Hassan Shire | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ "Somalia: IRIN interview with Hasan Shire Sheik, co-director of Dr Ismail Juma'le Human Rights Centre, Mogadishu - Somalia | ReliefWeb". reliefweb.int. 2 October 2000. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ a b c "Practitioner Advisory Group | Data and Displacement | University of Warwick". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ a b Shire, Hassan (2019-05-30). "COMMENT: Disappearance and extrajudicial killing". The Independent Uganda. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ "UN: Demand Improvements by Human Rights Council Candidates | Human Rights Watch". 2010-05-10. Retrieved 2024-06-09.
- ^ Shire, Hassan (2014-03-06). "Civil liberties being suffocated in Uganda". The Independent Uganda. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ a b c DemDigest (2017-05-16). "African democracy: supply and demand at a tipping point?". Democracy Digest. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ "Enhanced ID: HC Update on Sudan - 7th Meeting, 50th Regular Session of Human Rights Council | UN Web TV". media.un.org. 15 June 2022. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ konsepto (2017-01-31). "A long-term partner of KIOS, East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project EHAHRDP, supports the valuable work of Human Rights Defenders". KIOS. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ "Wareysi: Kaalinta bulshada rayidka ah ee shir-madaxeedka Mareykanka iyo Afrika". VOA (in Somali). 15 December 2022. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ "The Human Rights Centre Uganda". www.hrcug.org. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ Shire, Hassan. "Hassan Shire". Just Security. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
External links
- AfricanDefenders
- De Capua interview with Hassan Shire Sheikh
- Somalia:Hassan Shire, a human rights activist or clan chauvinist who backs corruption ?
- Targeted but Not Deterred: human rights activists fighting for justice and peace in South Sudan
- Somaliland authorities order 24 Somali journalists to leave