Legal status and background
Stitching Africa Human Rights Network Foundation (AHRN) is a Non-Governmental Organization, NGO, registered as such on No: I-NGO/0009181 with the Office of NGOs in Tanzania. AHRN was founded on 10 March 2016 on the initiative of local Human Rights Defenders operating in the African Great Lakes Region and members of African Diaspora living in The Netherlands. The main objective was to protect and provide advocacy efforts for at-risk activists in the region.
Since 2020, AHRN has been focusing on providing training, networking opportunities and financial support to grassroots youth organisations in more than 25 African countries, especially those movements working on climate justice, gender equality and the rights of minorities and indigenous people.
Until now, in June 2025, AHRN provides a platform to more than 430 civil society NGOs and over 1500 individual activists in Africa.