For Immediate Release
10 April 2013: To All Media
Meeting
with reporters and media editors in Banjul, The Gambia today, representatives
of the Department of Political Affairs of the African Union and the African Centre
for Democracy and Human RightsStudies shared their plans to engage citizens
across Africa in public dialogue about human rights and the protection of
personal freedoms at all levels of African societies.
Dr.
Hannah Forster, Executive Director of the African Centre for Democracy and
Human Rights Studies, Dr. Salah HamnadSiddiq, human rights expert, Department
of Political Affairs of the African Union,and Dr. AlieuBadaraSajaTaal, Senior
Lecturer Department of Political Science University of the Gambia, met with media representatives to discuss values
critical to Africa’s integration and unity such as freedom of expression and
freedom of association.
