From November 25 to December 10, 2019 PLANETE PEACE ran an online campaign for 16 days of activism to end violence against women. This activity had a favorable response with the populations.

In 2019, Cote d’Ivoire was examined by 3 UN human rights mechanisms: the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against women. To prepare members of the Dominican family and its partners for advocacy work within these mechanisms, Dominicans for Justice and Peace organized training in 2018 on the UN human rights system and the fundamental role of civil society in the UN mechanisms. Following the 3 consecutive reviews of Cote d’Ivoire by the UN this year, no less than 240 recommendations were made to the Ivorian state to improve the human rights situation in the country.

Intervention of an Ivorian expert on the monitoring of the UPR of Cote d’Ivoire. In this context, Dominicans for Justice and Peace organized a second training, from November 2 to 4, 2019, intended to strengthen the capacities of the participants in terms of monitoring recommendations made to Cote d’Ivoire, monitoring human rights and advocacy. The training took place in Abidjan and 41 people participated. The Dominicans were also able to count on the presence of two experts from Ivorian civil society, who presented the current human rights situation in the country and the follow-up to the recommendations of the UPR at national level.

Abidjan Arrest and Correction House (MACA)
Critical prison conditions, the lack of quality of the education system as well as the reduction of democratic space and public freedoms in the run-up to the presidential elections have been identified as three key human rights issues and will be the subject of ‘rigorous monitoring by the participants.