{"id":1035094,"date":"2023-03-22T16:06:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/?p=24311"},"modified":"2023-03-22T16:06:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:06:17","slug":"human-rights-defender-pierre-claver-akolly-amegnikpo-dekpoh-from-togo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/22\/human-rights-defender-pierre-claver-akolly-amegnikpo-dekpoh-from-togo\/","title":{"rendered":"Human rights defender Pierre-Claver Akolly Am\u00e9gnikpo Dekpoh from Togo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gz5tOrjJSGc?version=3&#038;rel=1&%23038;showsearch=0&%23038;showinfo=1&%23038;iv_load_policy=1&%23038;fs=1&%23038;hl=en&%23038;autohide=2&%23038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018<em>Witnessing the realisation of human rights in our countries would be a great joy because that is what we work towards<\/em>.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pierre-Claver Akolly Am\u00e9gnikpo Dekpoh works at the West African Human Rights Defenders Network (WAHRDN) in Lome, Togo. He spoke to ISHR about what drove him to become a human rights defender and about the challenges that he and his colleagues in Togo and West Africa face in working towards the realisation of human rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about Pierre-Claver and hear the stories of other human rights defenders like him: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbFZnVUQ0Z0pkcmxsdXlMWUJNTUFiVktMbDJfUXxBQ3Jtc0tuX29uZXdSTTcyN3lhVmZKODljVHl5Sm1TSmliYW14ZVdNZm9IWUxKSjVqcVdnMm1iY0NaeTIwNmhZb3IzOFdBNGc4VHJxbDRPcUY0SzhNWWFzZDNJaFV0LUpQRUwzSnA1MUwyWm00TFJ6WHpMNTcyZw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fishr.ch%2Fdefender-stories%2F&amp;v=Gz5tOrjJSGc\" >https:\/\/ishr.ch\/defender-stories\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ishr.ch\/defender-stories\/human-rights-defenders-story-pierre-claver-akolly-amegnikpo-dekpoh-from-togo\/\">https:\/\/ishr.ch\/defender-stories\/human-rights-defenders-story-pierre-claver-akolly-amegnikpo-dekpoh-from-togo\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/2023\/03\/22\/human-rights-defender-pierre-claver-akolly-amegnikpo-dekpoh-from-togo\/\">Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Witnessing the realisation of human rights in our countries would be a great joy because that is what we work towards.\u2019 Pierre-Claver Akolly Am\u00e9gnikpo Dekpoh works at the West African Human Rights Defenders Network (WAHRDN) in Lome, Togo. He spoke to ISHR about what drove him to become a human rights defender and about the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3115,3209,1424,2742,58970,1629,58974,58982,9752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035095,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035094\/revisions\/1035095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}