Kayitesi elected vice chair of continental rights body

The Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Sylvie Zainab Kayitesi, was this week elected vice president of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights during the commission’s 50th Ordinary Session held in Banjul, The Gambia.The forum held twice a year, was jointly organised by the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies and the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights and attracted hundreds of human rights defenders.