{"id":32480,"date":"2017-02-11T03:50:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T03:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/burundi-cnidh-re-accredited-with-b-status\/"},"modified":"2017-02-11T03:50:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T03:50:29","slug":"burundi-cnidh-re-accredited-with-b-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/burundi-cnidh-re-accredited-with-b-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi:CNIDH re-accredited with B status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The accreditation subcommittee -SCA, recommended re-accreditation of the Independent National Commission on human rights in Burundi- CNIDH, with B status. The accreditation status will be considered after one year as states law 18.1 of the statutes of Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions- GANHRI.}<\/p>\n<p>SCA said it planned the re- accreditation in May 2016, but, considering the current political situation in Burundi, it realized that CNIDH was working in difficult conditions and decided to postpone the re-accreditation.<\/p>\n<p>SCA accuses CNIDH of publishing reports which minimize flagrant violations of human rights and of giving false figures.\u201d The 2015 report shows 27 cases of torture and ill-treatment instead of 250 as documented by the United Nations High Commission of Human Rights- HCDH, between April 2015 and April 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SCA also accuses CNIDH of taking a non-independent position: \u00ab CNIDH has not taken a position to promote the protection of human rights in response to credible allegations of gross violations of human rights by Burundi authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SCA said CNIDH does not apply Paris principles in its manner of working. It also said CNIDH denied allegations of the civil society and results from independent investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Jean Baptiste Baribonekeza, CNIDH Chairman said on 8 February 2017, that he is not yet aware of the re-accreditation decision. \u201cWhat we know is that we still have A status in international human rights organisations. CNIDH continues to do its best to help people solve human rights related problems\u201d, said Baribonekeza.<\/p>\n<p>In compliance with GANHRI statutes, the SCA gives CNIDH possibility to provide, within one year, clear evidence to confirm its respects towards the Paris Principles.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18156 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/jean-baptiste-baribonekeza-600x444.jpg\" alt=\"Jean Baptiste Baribonekeza:\u201dWhat we know is that we still have A status\u201d\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:Iwacu <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The accreditation subcommittee -SCA, recommended re-accreditation of the Independent National Commission on human rights in Burundi- CNIDH, with B status. The accreditation status will be considered after one year as states law 18.1 of the statutes of Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions- GANHRI.} SCA said it planned the re- accreditation in May 2016, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2675],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-iwacu"],"bylines":[{"id":2675,"name":"IWACU","slug":"iwacu","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2675,"name":"IWACU","slug":"iwacu","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32480"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32480"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}