The European Network for Central Africa (EurAc), created in 2003, aims to help the Great Lakes region build a better future. EurAc carries out advocacy work for a strong, coherent and sustainable engagement by the European Union and its Member States integrated to a regional approach. EurAc gathers 36 European civil society organisations that work on and in the region and that support local civil society in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda in promoting peace and development, and in defending human rights.
21/08/2020 - Open Letter - (EN/FR)
Burundi, United Nations; Inclusive political participation & Human Rights, Peace & Security
Ahead of the 45th session of the UN Human Rights Council (#HRC45), EurAc and 42 other civil society organisations write to urge States to support the renewal of the mandate of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on Burundi.
21/08/2020 - Open Letter - (EN/FR)
Burundi, United Nations; Inclusive political participation & Human Rights, Peace & Security
Ahead of the 45th session of the UN Human Rights Council (#HRC45), EurAc and 42 other civil society organisations write to urge States to support the renewal of the mandate of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on Burundi.
27/05/2020 - Policy Brief - (EN)
Burundi, Central Africa, DRC, European Union, Great Lakes, Rwanda; All thematics
COVID-19 in the Great Lakes region: EurAc wishes to draw the attention of EU policy and decision-makers to the specific challenges in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in Rwanda and in Burundi and suggest courses of action to be taken focusing on fundamental rights and freedoms, gender-specific impacts, food insecurity, mineral supply-chains fragility and humanitarian issues.
