In Africa, FoRB violations often intersect with broader issues such as education, governance, and social stability. Countries like Ghana and Malawi have experienced tensions that impact democratic development. IPPFoRB Africa collaborates with regional partner ACEPA to strengthen parliamentary capacity and promote rights-based approaches that align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The African Parliamentarians Association for Human Rights (AfriPAHR) is a network of approximately 120 parliamentarians, who seek to promote democracy and human rights in Africa. Working together with the International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief (IPPFoRB), it seeks to promote the right to freedom of religion or belief in Africa.
For more information and to join the network, please visit the AfriPAHR website
Nqabayomzi Kwankwa is a Member of Parliament of the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa since August 2013, and the Chief Whip of the United Democratic Movement (UDM) since May 2014 and the Deputy President of the UDM since December 2016. He joined the UDM in 2007 and was elected the party’s Deputy Secretary-General at its National Congress in December 2010, and serves as the UDM’s media spokesperson.
Kwankwa is the Chair of the Steering Committee of the African Parliamentarian Association for Human Rights (AfriPAHR), which is an independent, non-partisan network of parliamentarians from the African continent that works to advance democracy, freedom of religion or belief and human rights to build a fairer and inclusive Africa, through diplomacy and fostering strategic alliances between nations.
