Eric Bizimana

Eric Bizimana is a Senior Legal Officer at the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA). He is currently managing an EU funded project aimed at fighting impunity for enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in The Gambia. Eric Biziman has prepared and argued various cases before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, and the ECOWAS Court of Justice.

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Avenues for victims of enforced disappearances in The Gambia

23.12.2020

Eric Bizimana

In Africa, enforced disappearances occur in multiple situations such as during armed conflicts, in the fight against terrorism, in policing migration, or in dictatorial regimes. It has been used for...