Association Malienne des Droits de l'Homme (AMDH) is a
Malian
non-profit human rights non-governmental organization founded in
Bamako,
Mali on 11 December 1988.
Leadership
Moustapha Cisse was President of the AMDH in 2006. , Moctat Mariko holds the role of President.
AMDH is a member of
International Federation for Human Rights
The International Federation for Human Rights (french: Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l'homme; FIDH) is a non-governmental federation for human rights organizations. Founded in 1922, FIDH is the third oldest international h ...
(FIDH).
Human rights activities
In October 2005, AMDH organised a debate in
Bamako about the
death penalty
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...
.
In December 2012, during the
Northern Mali conflict
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, conflict = Mali War
, partof = the Islamist insurgency in the Sahel and the War on terror
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that started in January 2012, the AMDH together with the FIDH published a detailed report
of human rights abuses that had occurred, referring to evidence of a rape campaign in
Gao and
Timbuktu after their takeover by the
National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), recruitment of 12- to 15-year-old children as
child soldier
Children (defined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child as people under the age of 18) have been recruited for participation in military operations and campaigns throughout history and in many cultures.
Children in the military, includ ...
s by
Ansar Dine, and the
extrajudicial execution of 153
Malian soldiers by the MNLA and Ansar Dine on 24 January 2012.
References
External links
An entry at justicemali.org
Human rights organisations based in Mali
Organizations established in 1988
International Federation for Human Rights member organizations
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